Damping identification of a full‐scale passively controlled five‐story steel building structure

A series of large‐scale dynamic tests was conducted on a passively controlled five‐story steel building on the E‐Defense shaking table facility in Japan to accumulate knowledge of realistic seismic behavior of passively controlled structures. The specimen was tested by repeatedly inserting and replacing each of four damper types, that is, the buckling restrained braces, viscous dampers, oil dampers, and viscoelastic dampers. Finally, the bare steel moment frame was tested after removing all dampers. A variety of excitations was applied to the specimen, including white noise, various levels of seismic motion, and shaker excitation. System identification was implemented to extract dynamic properties of the specimen from the recorded floor acceleration data. Damping characteristics of the specimen were identified. In addition, simplified estimations of the supplemental damping ratios provided by added dampers were presented to provide insight into understanding the damping characteristics of the specimen. It is shown that damping ratios for the specimen equipped with velocity‐dependent dampers decreased obviously with the increasing order of modes, exhibiting frequency dependency. Damping ratios for the specimen equipped with oil and viscoelastic dampers remained constant regardless of vibration amplitudes, whereas those for the specimen equipped with viscous dampers increased obviously with an increase in vibration amplitudes because of the viscosity nonlinearity of the dampers. In very small‐amplitude vibrations, viscous and oil dampers provided much lower supplemental damping than the standard, whereas viscoelastic dampers could be very efficient. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

青藏高原及其毗邻地区降水中稳定同位素成分的经向变化

分析了从南亚经青藏高原到毗邻的我国西北地区一个经向剖面上降水中稳定同位素成分的时空分布以及与温度、降水量、水汽来源的关系.在青藏高原南部和南亚,温度效应均不存在.在所统计的站点中,大约一半的取样站具有降水量效应,但降水中稳定同位素比率的季节变化并不与降水量强度的变化相一致.在季节变化中,δ¹⁸O的最大值往往出现在雨季到来之前的春季,最小值则出现在雨季后期或雨季结束的秋季.在青藏高原中、北部和毗邻的我国西北地区,各取样站均具有显著的温度效应,且降水中δ¹⁸O的季节变化与温度的季节变化几乎一致.说明在这些地区,温度是制约降水中稳定同位素变化的主要影响因子.由于来自源区水汽的直接凝结,南亚地区降水中平均稳定同位素成分相对较重.稳定同位素比率的季节差异较小;从青藏高原南坡的坚景到唐古拉山,由于翻越喜马拉雅山时水汽受强烈的洗涤作用,降水中稳定同位素比率急剧减小,达经向分布中δ¹⁸O的最低值段;从31°N到青藏高原北部,降水中稳定同位素比率随纬度而增大,并最终过渡到与我国西北地区降水中稳定同位素比率的变化型相类似.     

中纬度地区混合云中稳定同位素分馏的数学模拟——以乌鲁木齐降水为例

文中介绍的数学模型考虑了混合云中液、固相共存时以及冰面过饱和环境下稳定同位素的动力分馏效应.利用该数学模型,模拟不同冷却条件下稳定同位素的温度效应.在相同的湿度条件下,湿绝热冷却过程中δ18O随温度的变化率小于等压冷却过程.冰面过饱和比S;的增大意味着动力分馏效应的增大.与平衡态过程相比,它的作用使得稳定同位素的综合分馏系数减小,从而使得降水中δ18O随温度的变化趋缓.模拟结果显示,湿绝热冷却过程中大气水线(MWLδD=bδ18O+d)的梯度项b和常数项d均大于等压冷却过程.不同的冰面过饱和比对大气水线的影响是不同的.与冰面过饱和比相比,b和d的大小对云中含水量的变化敏感性较低.模拟结果还显示,乌鲁木齐的降水不是来自海洋水汽的初始凝结.在经历了长途输送之后,乌鲁木齐降水中的稳定同位素成分在很大程度上被衰减.模拟的稳定同位素比率/温度、δD/δ18O曲线分别与乌鲁木齐实测的稳定同位素比率/温度回归线以及大气水线有非常好的一致性.     

An overview of decadal climate predictability in a multi-model ensemble by climate model MIROC

Decadal climate predictability is examined in hindcast experiments by a multi-model ensemble using three versions of the coupled atmosphere-ocean model MIROC. In these hindcast experiments, initial conditions are obtained from an anomaly assimilation procedure using the observed oceanic temperature and salinity with prescribed natural and anthropogenic forcings on the basis of the historical data and future emission scenarios in the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change. Results of the multi-model ensemble in our hindcast experiments show that predictability of surface air temperature (SAT) anomalies on decadal timescales mostly originates from externally forced variability. Although the predictable component of internally generated variability has considerably smaller SAT variance than that of externally forced variability, ocean subsurface temperature variability has predictive skills over almost a decade, particularly in the North Pacific and the North Atlantic where dominant signals associated with Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO) and the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation (AMO) are observed. Initialization enhances the predictive skills of AMO and PDO indices and slightly improves those of global mean temperature anomalies. Improvement of these predictive skills in the multi-model ensemble is higher than that in a single-model ensemble.     

中纬度地区混合云中稳定同位素分馏的数学模拟-以乌鲁木齐降水为例

介绍的数学模型考虑了混合云中液、固态共存时以及冰面过饱和环境下稳定同位素的动力分馏效应.利用该数学模型,模拟了不同冷却条件下稳定同位素的温度效应.在相同的湿度条件下,湿绝热冷却过程中δ18O随温度的变化率小于等压冷却过程.冰面过饱和比Si的增大意味着动力分馏效应的增大.与平衡态相比,它的作用使得稳定同位素的综合分馏系数减小,从而使得降水中δ18O随温度的变化趋缓.模拟显示,湿绝热冷却过程中大气水线(MWL:=bδ18O+d)的斜率b和常数d均大于等压冷却过程.全球大气水线位于湿绝热冷却过程和等压冷却过程条件下分别模拟的两条大气水线之间.b和d的大小与Si呈正比.Si愈大,动力分馏效应愈强,b和d也愈大.反之亦然.然而,b和d的大小对云中含水量的变化具有低的敏感性.利用动力分馏模式模拟了乌鲁木齐降水中稳定同位素的变化.模拟的稳定同位素比率-温度以及δD-δ18O曲线分别与乌鲁木齐实测的稳定同位素比率-温度回归线以及大气水线有非常好的一致性.     

Variations of stable isotopic compositions in precipitation on the Tibetan Plateau and its adjacent regions

There is no temperature effect in the southern Tibetan Plateau and South Asia to the south of the Tanggula Mountains. Amount effect has been observed at a few sampling stations accounting for about a half of the statistical stations. There is notable temperature effect in the middle and northern Tibetan Plateau and its adjacent Central Asia to the north of the Tanggula Mountains. Because vapor directly originates from low-latitude oceans, the relative heavy δ¹⁸O with small variation characterizes the rainfall in South Asia. A sharp depletion of the stable isotopic compositions in precipitation takes place from Kyangjin on the southern slope of the Himalayas to the Tanggula Mountains in the middle plateau. From the Tanggula Mountains to the northern Tibetan Plateau, the δ¹⁸O in precipitation increases with increasing latitude.