Efficient analysis of pile-group effect on seismic stiffness and strength design of buildings

A new efficient method is developed for the analysis of pile-group effects on the seismic stiffness and strength design of buildings with pile foundations. An efficient continuum model consisting of a dynamic Winkler-type soil element and a pile is used to express the dynamic behavior of the structure-pile-soil system with only a small numerical error. The pile-group effect is taken into account through the influence coefficients among piles which are defined for interstory drifts and pile-head bending moments. It is shown that, while the pile-group effect reduces the interstory drift of buildings in general, it may increase the bending moment of piles at the head. This means that the treatment without the pile-group effect results in the conservative design for super-structures and requires a revised member design for piles.     

Identification of structural parameters of multistorey shear buildings from modal data

A procedure has been presented in this paper to identify the structural parameters, viz. mass and stiffness matrices, from modal test data for multistorey shear buildings. The first two orders of modal data have been used by other researchers to estimate the global matrices where they depend only on measurable points which are less than the total number of structural degrees of freedom. The above method has been refined here by using Holzer criteria along with other numerical methods to estimate the global mass and stiffness matrices of the structure. This shows the methodology to be more efficient and accurate. The reliability of the procedure has been shown by examples of multistorey buildings. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

用MATLAB对倾斜观测资料进行预处理

用MATLAB语言分析了龙岩地震台地倾斜垂直摆数字观测仪NS向观测数据的频率成分,然后分别调用完全的设计函数butter、cheby1、cheby2,设计了低通、带通、高通滤波程序,对龙岩台地倾斜垂直摆数字观测仪NS向观测数据进行了滤波,得到了相关频率的滤波曲线图。本文只对观测数据进行一个月的数据处理,若将一年或几年的观测数据进行滤波处理,并进一步进行波形分析或处理,也许能找出某些与地震有关的信息,为地震分析预报提供服务。     

Research on anisotropic parameters by syn-thetic seismogram

Introduction The anisotropy of the Earth crust medium is a common phenomenon(Crampin,1984).More and more observation materials and study results have proved that on most of the Earth′s upper crust is spread fluid-filled cracks and microcracks,which are aligned according to the contempo-rary stress-field.Such distributions of aligned cracks show effectively anisotropy to seismic wave and the phenomenon is called extensive-dilatancy anisotropy(EDA)(Crampin et al,1984).At the same time,it is …     

A study on the focal parameters of Shidian M =5.9 earthquake sequences in 2001

On the basis of about 300 earthquake wave forms observed in the Shidian M _S=5.9 sequences on April 12, 2001 recorded in Kunming Digital Seismic Network, the spectra of shear wave have been used to estimate the focal parameters of these earthquake sequences. The results show that within the magnitude range of 1.5–5.3, the seismic moments are 10¹⁰–10¹⁶ N·m, the corner frequencies are 0.2–0.8 Hz, radii of the focal rupture are 200–2 500 m and the stress drops are 0.1×10⁵–20×10⁵Pa. Through the statistical analyses of variation of corner frequency f _c and stress drop Δσ with time, it is discovered that the average corner frequency of the foreshock sequences is obviously lower than that of the aftershock sequences. Contrarily, the average stress drops Δσ of the foreshock sequences are clearly higher than that of the aftershocks. It is considered that these variation characteristics of average corner frequency and stress drops before and after the main shock have index significance to the precursory information before a strong earthquake. The higher stress drops for the foreshock sequences show that the higher shear stresses have been stored in the area of main shock. After the main shock, most of the stresses have been released, so the aftershock sequences show a rupture process of lower stresses. Foundation item: Scientific and Technological Key Project of Yunnan Province (2001NG46)     

Evolutionary aseismic design and retrofit of structures with passive energy dissipation

A new computational framework is developed for the design and retrofit of building structures by considering aseismic design as a complex adaptive process. For the initial phase of the development within this framework, genetic algorithms are employed for the discrete optimization of passively damped structural systems. The passive elements may include metallic plate dampers, viscous fluid dampers and viscoelastic solid dampers. The primary objective is to determine robust designs, including both the non‐linearity of the structural system and the uncertainty of the seismic environment. Within the present paper, this computational design approach is applied to a series of model problems, involving sizing and placement of passive dampers for energy dissipation. In order to facilitate our investigations and provide a baseline for further study, we introduce several simplifications for these initial examples. In particular, we employ deterministic lumped parameter structural models, memoryless fitness function definitions and hypothetical seismic environments. Despite these restrictions, some interesting results are obtained from the simulations and we are able to gain an understanding of the potential for the proposed evolutionary aseismic design methodology. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

基于正交多项式逼近法的岩土参数概率分布推断

针对岩上参数样本容量较大的情况,基于数值分析中的逼近原理,直接根据试验样本值,运用勒让德正交多项式来拟合岩土参数的概率密度函数,并用K-S检验法从理论上证明所求的密度函数的正确性和实用性。     

上海市公共卫生中心空调设计

介绍了上海市公共卫生中心空调通风的设计特点,突出反映在呼吸道传染病区、呼吸道门诊、呼吸道临检、生物安全实验室的系统设计中,并介绍了空调水系统的特殊要求。     

工程勘察设计行业信息化建设问题反思及其新领域应用开发综述

本文通过对勘察设计行业信息化建设的深入思考,总结并提出了在设计院信息化建设七个领域应用开发的新思路。     

工程勘察设计信息集成化系统的实施状况及其思考

国家建设部“全国工程勘察设计行业2000～2005年计算机应用工程及信息化发展规划纲要”发布后,备受工程设计企业关注,但推行情况却不甚理想。本文通过阐述信息集成化系统的主要任务和目标,分析其应用状况,寻求推广受阻原因,提出了开发该系统的思路和改善其实施环境的建议。