Comparative experimental studies of models of self-controlled and ordinary frames on the shaking table

This paper presents a comparative test of models of self-controlled and ordinary frames on the shaking table. Two tested 1/8-scale models of 4-storey and single-bay RC frames made of cement mortar and reinforced with wires were poured on the same base beam. The dynamic characteristics and earthquake responses in the elastic, cracked and failed stages and the failure modes of these two kinds of frame are studied. It is proved that the seismic behaviour of the self-controlled frame is better than that of the ordinary frame.     

Understanding the inelastic seismic behaviour of asymmetric-plan buildings

Studied in this paper is the inelastic seismic behaviour of asymmetric-plan buildings using the histories of base shear and torque. The first step in understanding this behaviour is to construct the base shear and torque surface (BST) for the building, which represents all combinations of shear and torque that applied statically lead to collapse of the structure. Several factors controlling the shape of this surface, such as strength eccentricity and bidirectional ground motion, are identified. Also, their effects on the building responses are studied considering several structural configurations. The results obtained show that the BST surface, in conjunction with the base-shear and torque histories, provides a useful conceptual framework for understanding the behaviour of asymmetric systems. Furthermore, using these surfaces, relevant aspects of the behaviour and design of such buildings become apparent even before dynamic analysis of the structure.     

Multispectral remote sensing of biomass burning in West Africa

Remote sensing measurements provide a vauable means of determining the extent of burning areas and of estimating the overall distribution of pollutant sources (identified from experimental studies) in time and space. This distribution has to be taken into account in the boundary conditions of chemistry atmospheric models.Recent methods developed for the remote sensing of active fires in tropical or temperated forest zones, have been found to be completely inadequate for fire detection on West African savannas. In order to accurately estimate the active fire distribution in the function of different sorts of West African savannas (Sahelian, Sudanian and Guinean) and forests, a multispectral methodology has been developed based on NOAA/11-AVHRR satellite data, with the purpose of eliminating as much as possible the problems related to large surface heterogeneity, confusion and bias, produced by clouds, smoke, haze, background emissivities, etc.Unlike other methods, the results show that the multispectral method, in spite of its selectivity, provides realistic results, and does not under- or over-estimate the number of fires that can be sensed by the satellite. Consequently, this methodology is more appropriate than the simplest ones for a systematic sensing of this phenomenon.     

华南滨海断裂带地震危险性的数学模拟

华南滨海断裂带是南海北部规模巨大的活动断裂，其地震危险性的确定将为地震几地震工程提供地质背景依据，应用二维有限元分析和正交设计法反演南海北部及其今近地区的构造应力场，探讨可能发震的危险地段。研究结果表明，滨海断裂带的某些地段，尤其是滨海断裂带被ＮＷ向断裂切割的部位有一定的地震危险性。南海北部地区最主要的地震威胁来自巴士系断裂带和珠江口盆地南缘的ＮＷＷ向断裂带，对华南滨海断理解带潜在的地震危险性不宜     

蕴震系统自组织演化与构造微动态研究

蕴震系统是在多种环境动力因子作用下，由多个不同性质、不同层次的子系统强烈相互作用所形成的“复杂巨系统”或“复杂的非线性动力学系统”。本文概述了蕴震系统的自组织演化理论，提出并采用蕴震系统方向信息合成法研究了相应的构造微动态特征。     

西藏中南部花岗岩类岩石中锆石标型特征的研究

西藏各类花岗岩分布极为广泛。锆石在不同时代和不同岩性花岗岩中的标型特征也互有差异。锆石矿物含量从北向南有逐渐降低的趋势;锆石中的Zr/Hf比值是随着岩石的酸度增加和岩体时代变新而降低;锆石的伸长系数是随着岩石中Si-K+Na的含量增加而加大;在冈底斯带花岗岩中的Si和K+Na含量低时,锆石多出现(100)和(111)晶面,而拉轨岗日岩带和喜马拉雅岩带浅色花岗岩中的Si、K、Na含量较高时,锆石则多出现(110)、(311)和(131)晶面;锆石中稀土元素是以重稀土元素为主,其含量占总稀土量的80%以上。     

广西南丹地区泥盆纪台间海槽沉积环境分析

广西“南丹型”泥盆系以黑色泥岩为主,富含浮游生物竹节石等,是一套受基底构造控制的并受其两侧碳酸盐台地影响的台间海槽沉积。沉积相类型主要为深水含竹节石泥岩相,泥灰岩相及硅质岩相。台间海槽从益兰期开始出现,其形成和发展在塘丁—纳标—榴江期,封闭可能在早石炭世之后。     

地幔快速隆起对构造地震的触发作用

本文应用弹性半无限空间内均匀膨胀的球体对球上介质的作用,作为地幔快速上涌触发构造地震的力学模型。按照地面垂直位移的年变化率,利用这个模型反推出这种虚拟的膨胀球的半径和膨胀强度。並计算出它在地壳中产生的附加应力。尽管此种附加应力比驱动地壳水平运动的力要小得多,但它能在高倾角断层上引起张性的法向应力,而且在隆起区内还有较高的附加剪应力。这些应力比固体潮、地极移动和地球转速变化等因素产生的附加应力都大得多。因此,地幔快速上涌对构造地震的触发作用应该比上述诸因素更大。由于近十余年来我国不少地区的走滑型强震大都发生在地壳上隆区或者在其边缘,而且发震断层都是高倾角断层,因此,本文能够对此作粗浅的解释。     

台风路径预报套网格模式的试验

为了提高差分模式的分辨率,以改进台风路径预报。本文提出了原始方程模式的两种嵌套网格方案。试验表明,所提异模式嵌套网格交界域变量的衔接、协调处理是有效的;以轴对称正态分布模拟台风环流对于合风路径数值预报是适宜的。个例计算及1980年试用结果表明,套网格方案对路径预报有不同程度改进。     

The southern cape conductive belt (South Africa): Its composition, origin and tectonic significance

Magnetometer array studies have led to the discovery and mapping of the Southern Cape Conductive Belt (SCCB) crossing the southern tip of Africa from west to southeast coasts. The SCCB lies just south of the Namaqua-Natal Belt of cratonic rocks remobilized about 1000 m.y. B.P. It is shown that it coincides with a zone of weakness which has been exploited by three major geosynclinal accumulations over some 600 m.y. Relationships between the SCCB and the basement geochronology, geology and tectonics are considered in detail. These relationships support the view that the conductive belt was formed by an accumulation of marine sediments and oceanic lithosphere at the top of a Proterozoic subduction which stopped about 1000 to 800 m.y. B.P. Associated with this subduction we propose a Proterozoic range of Andean mountains, whose roots are now exposed in the Namaqua-Natal Belt. Later subduction further south, near the present south coast, is proposed to account for the intrusion, between the south coast and the SCCB, of the Cape Granites in the time interval 600-500 m.y. B.P. There is some evidence for a third, yet more distant, subduction episode off Permian Gondwanaland. After outlining this tectonic history, the paper turns to a closer examination of the hypothesis that the Southern Cape Conductive Belt consists of partly serpentinized basalt accumulated at the top of a Proterozoic subduction. A large static magnetic anomaly, which correlates with the SCCB over most of its length, is well fitted by a model which strongly supports this hypothesis. Bouguer gravity anomalies along western and central profiles likewise support the hypothesis. A discussion follows of the process of formation of the proposed block of serpentinized marine rocks, beginning with serpentinization of the crust near oceanic ridges by reaction of warm, porous, newly-extruded basalt with seawater convecting through it. The serpentinized basalt is stable at crustal temperatures and pressures and so is transported in the seafloor until it reaches a subduction, where it accumulates because of its low density. Examples of such accumulations are cited. Finally, it is shown that any iron in the olivine and pyroxene in the original basalt precipitates, when these silicates are hydrated to serpentine, as magnetite which is the dominant mineral conferring high electrical conductivity and high magnetic susceptibility on serpentinites. In particular the Beattie static magnetic anomaly requires, in our model calculation, a very high susceptibility readily attainable in basalt at 15–20% serpentinization. The authors know of no other rock able to provide this high susceptibility. A similar percentage of serpentinization provides the density required to model the gravity anomalies.