ABSTRACT New concepts of highway design require to make highway harmony with natural environment and human environment. People’s requirements of trip are not the simple space movement,people pay more attention on the appreciation of the landscape along the highway and the protection of the environment, and they hope to finally fulfill the harmony between human beings and nature. However, fulfilling the harmony between cut and environment is one of the most important and difficult issues to achieve the above requirements. With the increasing proportion of mountainous highway, it is more urgent then before to solve the harmonious issues between cut and environment. This is the background of the study. In this dissertation, 8 national and provincial highway in the middle of Shandong province were firstly investigated, such as G22, G205, S236, S329, and so on, and the unharmonious issues between cut and environment were summarized. Moreover, the candidate spent about 3 years on tracking investigation of the design and construction of the south line of Jinan-Qingdao expressway, and took part in the dynamic optimum design of design schemes.Based on the expert consultation and engineering practice, a series of design methods and comprehensive evaluation method were put forward toward the harmony between cut and environment by using the fundamental theories of aesthetics, environmental engineering, traffic engineering, geotechnical engineering, etc. Conclusion is following: (1)Many harmony issues between cut and environment were uncovered by investigations, such as conventional cross-section design method did not meet the requirement of coordination design, restoring ability of slope by nature was not being effectively utilized, cut did not constructed in coordination with surrounding terrain, drainage facilities did not be concealed, vegetation were lack of lack of relations between the inside and outside of the road boundary, construction traces were too visible, etc. (2)By summing up the visual principle,color principle,law of form beauty, basic theory for cut revegetation that related to the harmony design, focusing on the solving of the disharmony issues, new concepts were put forward that applied to the cut design of modem highway, and the idea of integration engineering design and landscape design was given, and a series of harmony design methods and new design concept were also proposed. Including: ①A new idea of establishment the design class system of highway landscape was introduced,and a“555”principle and the classification method of landscape sensitivity of cut-slope were also put forward, a principle of weakening or strengthening was also introduced to deal with the structures within the cutting sections, color design method and harmony design method of drainage facilities were also introduced. ②Methods and techniques that make cut be in harmony with surrounding terrain were put forward firstly. For instance, a new method for the expression of cut design, a new method of grading design of side slopes fitting roadside topography, a new method of creating ravine, layout technique of plane alignment harmonized with cut, design technique of cross-section fitting roadside topography, construction method of natural slope, etc. (3)Harmony evaluation index system of cut-slope Was constructed.Rule hierarchy was composed of three aspects, visual environment harmony, environment harmony, traffic environment harmony, and sub-rule hierarchy was composed of alignment, and so on, index layer was composed of coordination degree between highway alignment and topography, and other 21 indexes. The weights of indexes at all levels were presented by utilizing the analytic hierarchy process.and the value of harmony evaluation was obtained by utilizing the method of multilevel fuzzy comprehensive evaluation, and an example Was also given using the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process method(FAHP). (4)In order to serve the harmony design of cut-slope, enhance the objectivity and integrity of landscape evaluation, and provide the basis for decision.-making of cut-slope design schemes, this dissertation applied the semantic differential method to quantitatively analyze the visual effects of 7 types of cut-slope. The author designed questionnaire, sleeted 56 appraisers, took 5-sect value measure, 20 adjective pairs and got the value table of investigation. The results showed that the visual effects of cut-slope landscapes were composed of three evaluation axes, namely, harmony, diversity and construction. Cut-slope landscape types with high vegetation coverage and integration of grass and shrub were highly praised. However, landscape types with strong man-made traces got low evaluation grades. In order to increase the visual aesthetic value of cut-slope, improving the harmony between the slope and the environment, reducing the artificial traces, changing the shape of slope with flexibility, ameliorating the model of greening should be stressed. The basic principles of economics were utilized,methods of carbon tax, production cost, alternative engineering market value were adopted, and the value of side protection reducing the soil erosion, the value of vegetation sequestrating carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen, the value of conserving the source of water, the value of restraining dusts, the value of sequestrating sulfur dioxide,the value of landscape improving were analyzed,and the methods how to estimate the benefits quantitatively were put forward,and the quantitative comparison method of choosing protection schemes of cut-slope Was built.The case analytical results indicate that the conclusions of quantitative comparison method are clear, could be helpful in comparison of environment harmony design schemes to some extent when the conclusions of qualitative comparison were different from the quantitative comparison. In the finality, an engineering example Was given,and the problems requiring further studies were briefly discussed. Key words:Highway, Environmental engineering, Cuts, Design, Harmony, Evaluation |