A new centrifuge based method for determining the response of continuous buried pipe to PGD is presented. The physical characteristics of the RPI‘s 100 g-ton geotechnical centrifuge and the current lifeline experiment split-box are described: The split-box contains the model pipeline and surrounding soil and is manufactured such that half can be offset, in flight, simulating PGD. In addition, governing similitude relations which allow one to determine the physical characteristics, (diameter, wall thickness and material modulus of elasticity) of the model pipeline are presented. Finally, recorded strains induced in two buried pipes with prototype diameters of 0.63 m and 0.95 m (24 and 36 inch) subject to 0.6 and 2.0 meters (2 and 6 feet) of full scale fault offsets and presented and compared to corresponding FE results. 相似文献
Boundary-layer measurements made from the Swedish icebreaker Oden during the Arctic Ocean Experiment 2001 (AOE-2001) are analysed. They refer mainly to ice drift in the central Arctic during
the period 2–21 August 2001. On board Oden a remote sensing array with a wind profiler, cloud radar and a scanning microwave radiometer, and a regular weather station
operated continuously; soundings were also released during research stations. Turbulence and profile measurements on an 18-m
mast were deployed on the ice, along with two sodar systems, a microbarograph array and a tethered sounding system. Surface
flux and meteorological stations were also deployed on nearby ice floes. There is a clear diurnal cycle in radiation and also
in wind speed, cloud base and visibility. It is absent in temperature and humidity, probably due to the very strong control
by melting/ freezing ice and snow. In the advection of warm air, latent heat of melting maintains the surface temperature
at 0 °C, while with a negative energy balance the latent heat of freezing of the salty ocean water acts to maintain the surface
temperature > −2 °C. The constant presence of water at the surface maintains a relative humidity close to 100%, and this is
also often facilitated by an increasing specific humidity through the capping inversion, making entrainment a moisture source.
This ensures cloudy conditions, with low cloud and fog prevailing most of the time. Intrusions of warm and moist air from
beyond the ice edge are frequent, but the local Arctic boundary layer remains at a relatively constant temperature, and is
shallow and well mixed with strong capping inversions. Power spectra of surface-layer wind speed sometimes show large variance
at low frequency. A scanning radiometer provides a monitoring of the vertical thermal structure with a spatial and temporal
resolution not seen before in the Arctic. There are often two inversions, an elevated main inversion and a weak surface inversion,
and occasionally additional inversions occur. Enhanced entrainment across the main inversion appears to occur during frontal
passages. Variance of the scanning radiometer temperatures occurs in large pulses rather than varying smoothly, and the height
to the maximum variance appears to be a reasonable proxy for the boundary-layer depth. 相似文献
Article 2 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which states the treaty's long-term objective, is the
subject of a growing literature that examines means to interpret and implement this provision. Here we provide context for
these studies by exploring the intertwined scientific, legal, economic, and political history of Article 2. We review proposed
definitions for “dangerous anthropogenic interference” and frameworks that have been proposed for implementing these definitions.
Specific examples of dangerous climate changes suggest limits on global warming ranging from 1 to 4 ∘C and on concentrations ranging from 450 to 700 ppm CO2 equivalents. The implications of Article 2 for near term restrictions on greenhouse-gas emissions, e.g., the Kyoto Protocol,
are also discussed. 相似文献
Liquid distributions in unsaturated porous media under different gravitational accelerations and corresponding macroscopic gaseous diffusion coefficients were investigated to enhance understanding of plant growth conditions in microgravity. We used a single-component, multiphase lattice Boltzmann code to simulate liquid configurations in two-dimensional porous media at varying water contents for different gravity conditions and measured gas diffusion through the media using a multicomponent lattice Boltzmann code. The relative diffusion coefficients (D rel) for simulations with and without gravity as functions of air-filled porosity were in good agreement with measured data and established models. We found significant differences in liquid configuration in porous media, leading to reductions in D rel of up to 25% under zero gravity. The study highlights potential applications of the lattice Boltzmann method for rapid and cost-effective evaluation of alternative plant growth media designs under variable gravity. 相似文献
In this age of modern biology, aquatic toxicological research has pursued mechanisms of action of toxicants. This has provided potential tools for ecotoxicologic investigations. However, problems of biocomplexity and issues at higher levels of biological organization remain a challenge. In the 1980s and 1990s and continuing to a lesser extent today, organisms residing in highly contaminated field sites or exposed in the laboratory to calibrated concentrations of individual compounds were carefully analyzed for their responses to priority pollutants. Correlation of biochemical and structural analyses in cultured cells and tissues, as well as the in vivo exposures led to the production and application of biomarkers of exposure and effect and to our awareness of genotoxicity and its chronic manifestations, such as neoplasms, in wild fishes. To gain acceptance of these findings in the greater environmental toxicology community, “validation of the model” versus other, better-established often rodent models, was necessary and became a major focus. Resultant biomarkers were applied to heavily contaminated and reference field sites as part of effects assessment and with investigations following large-scale disasters such as oil spills or industrial accidents.
Over the past 15 years, in the laboratory, small aquarium fish models such as medaka (Oryzias latipes), zebrafish (Danio rerio), platyfish (Xiphophorus species), fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas), and sheepshead minnow (Cyprinodon variegatus) were increasingly used establishing mechanisms of toxicants. Today, the same organisms provide reliable information at higher levels of biological organization relevant to ecotoxicology. We review studies resolving mechanisms of toxicity and discuss ways to address biocomplexity, mixtures of contaminants, and the need to relate individual level responses to populations and communities. 相似文献
The model for bed formation by Kolmogorov consists of an unending sequence of alternating periods of deposition and erosion of sediments, with the amounts of deposition and erosion being independent random variables. This paper examines this model in relation to recent mathematical studies that are relevant to, and simplify, the analysis of the thickness of the bed that remains after the sequence is operated for a long time. This thickness obeys the exponential probability law when the amounts of deposition and erosion also obey the exponential law distributed. For the discrete version formulated by Schwarzacher, the thickness obeys the geometric probability law when the amounts of deposition and erosion obey the geometric law. 相似文献
Methods used for the estimation of analytical precision commonly suffer from two deficiencies which give rise to misleading results. These are: (1) the methods take no account of changes in absolute or relative error over the concentration range, and (2) they tend for other reasons to produce optimistically-biassed results. The difficulties can be avoided by the correct use of duplicate determinations. One method presented allows precision parameters to be estimated. The other gives rise to a simple control chart for use in geochemical analysis. 相似文献
The physics of an EMI 9558 Å photomultiplier has been investigated in some detail, and this study has led to a gain of more than thirty times in the signal-to-noise obtainable in a given observation time when used in receiver noise limited conditions. The importance of giant pulses in limiting performance is demonstrated. 相似文献