方钢管混凝土框架在低周反复荷载作用下的非线性有限元分析

本文建立了方钢管混凝土框架结构的三维非线性有限元分析模型,用以研究方钢管混凝土框架在低周反复荷载作用下的抗震性能。该模型考虑了钢与混凝土的粘结滑移作用。通过与方钢管混凝土框架结构在低周反复荷载作用下试验所得的滞回曲线和刚度退化曲线的对比,发现该模型的计算结果较为精确,可以应用于方钢管混凝土框架的结构分析中。同时由试验和有限元分析计算的结果也可以得出结论,方钢管混凝土框架具有较好的抗震性能。     

基于图像分析的双台面波相速度频散曲线快速提取方法

双台波形的互相关方法是面波相速度频散曲线提取的一种常用方法。传统的方法精度不高,效率较低。本文提出了一种基于图像分析的频散曲线快速提取方法,采用图像显示互相关振幅矩阵,且提出了快速追踪整条频散曲线的算法,并用Matlab编写了交互式的处理软件。基于这种方法编写的资料处理软件提高了双台相速度频散曲线提取的速度和精度,为大批量处理地震数据资料提供了坚实的软件基础。基于图像分析的方法可以更为清晰地展现出双台问的面波频散曲线的特征,对频散曲线的识别和分析也提供了更为有效的研究工具。     

环境与工程地球物理的新进展

环境与工程地球物理是地球物理中的一个重要方向,并紧密与社会发展和人们生活各方面相结合,未来将倍受重视．本文在介绍2004年武汉召开的国际环境与工程地球物理学术会议(ICEEG)基础上,阐述了环境与工程地球物理领域的一些新进展和主要发展趋势．并有针对性地介绍了我国环境与工程地球物理现状。     

气候地层中0.9Ma以来同位素亚段的再划分

同位素段、亚段乃至次亚段的划分实质上是定义不同级别 (层次 )的气候事件 ,为全球不同级别气候事件的对比提供参照。但已有的研究可能受区域性因素及记录本身条件所限 ,对同位素亚段、次亚段划分的数目及对比不尽一致。基于太阳辐射曲线、柴达木盆地高分辨率自然伽玛 (GR)曲线及其他相关气候记录的对比研究发现 ,同位素亚段的划分与太阳辐射曲线岁差周期间存在着明确的对应关系 ,据此对 0 .9Ma以来同位素亚段划分进行补充和校正。基于气候层次的观点 ,建议以太阳辐射曲线为参照 ,对同位素亚段重新进行系统命名 ,在轨道尺度变化这一级取消次亚段 ,即完全按照太阳辐射曲线峰值进行亚段编号。     

SS-Y型伸缩仪环境干扰的异常研究

对易县地震台SS-Y型伸缩仪2014—2021年观测数据受环境干扰的5个典型事件进行异常分析,结合易县台形变山洞所处的构造应力背景场,并利用模型定量计算得出:①荷载干扰源对易县台伸缩仪观测数据造成的荷载应变量与干扰源的距离、荷载量有关并呈正相关;②易县台SS-Y型伸缩仪三分向中NS测项、NE测项受到荷载干扰曲线异常幅度...     

Seston transport and deposition in Pelorus sound,south Island,New Zealand

Transport of seston (suspended sediment) in Pelorus Sound is controlled by tides and freshwater inflow. During high freshwater inflow, a moderately stratified estuarine circulation may be superimposed on the tidal circulation, but the latter dominates and transports seston seawards and landwards with the ebb and flood phases respectively. With extreme freshwater inflow, the estuarine circulation gains impetus and most seston is rapidly transported seaward in the low saline surface layer.

Irrespective of circulation there is a persistent trend in seston concentrations. Highest values occur at the sound's head because of the influence of nearby Pelorus and Kaituna Rivers and because of resuspension of bottom sediment by strong tidal currents. Seston concentrations wane along the sound until near the entrance, where values increase as a result of greater production of biogenic seston and because additional seston is brought in from Cook Strait with the flood tide. This trend parallels variability in the thicknesses of muddy bottom sediments. Muds are thick at the head where an extensive delta extends from the river mouths; muds gradually thin seaward and then thicken markedly in the vicinity of the sound entrance.

Seston weight and composition patterns and 3.5 kHz seismic profiles indicate Pelorus Sound acts as a double‐ended sediment trap. The upper reaches receive and retain river‐derived seston, whereas the sound entrance traps seston derived from Cook Strait. This situation appears to hold for both high and extremely high influxes of sediment.     

Hydrologic and sedimentologic aspects of mining aggregate from the shipsk bank (Baltic sea)

Abstract

Investigations aimed at obtaining knowledge about the environmental effects of mining aggregate from the sea bottom were carried out on the Stupsk Bank. Special attention was given to the magnitude and reach of changes of hydrologic conditions, in that to changes in concentration of matter suspended in sea water, and to dynamics of the sea bottom—change of bottom relief, resulting from both natural causes and from mining of the aggregate.     

The Hormuz Strait Dam Macroproject—21st Century Electricity Development Infrastructure Node (EDIN)?

ABSTRACT

Ocean gulfs offer a means of artificially creating a depression, which can be used for a regionally significant hydroelectric macroproject. We examine here the case for a dam at the Strait of Hormuz that blocks a large gulf situated in an arid region. A 35 m evaporation of this concentration basin will reduce its watery surface area by ～53% and allow generation of ～2.050 MW (or possibly ～2.500 MW) of electricity. Our conclusion is that the proposed Electricity Development Infrastructure Node (EDIN) is a feasible and desirable macroproject. If the macroproject starts in the near-term future, it would require a significant change in the logistics of oil and gas transport from this region. Alternatively, it can be considered as an attractive future solution for the energy requirements of the region after exhaustion of its oil and gas reserves.     

Environmental Issues Pertaining to the Kwale Mineral Sands Project,Kenya's South Coast—Reply

Tiomin Resources Inc. (“Tiomin”), the proponent of the Kwale Mineral Sands Project in Kenya, presents a response to the article authored by J. O. Z. Abuodha and P. O. Hayombe, entitled “Protracted Environmental Issues on a Proposed Titanium Minerals Development in Kenya's South Coast”, published in Volume 24, Number 2, April–June 2006. This article contains a series of inaccuracies, some grossly misleading and many statements relate to outdated information. Tiomin is greatly concerned at the publication of such a misleading report and is obliged to state the facts correctly. This response seeks to identify the misrepresentation of statements and/or facts in the article and present a correct and accurate perspective on the environmental issues of the project.     

Relationships between molecular bacterial diversity and chemistry of groundwater in the Wairarapa Valley,New Zealand

Groundwater plays an important role in New Zealand water supplies and hence monitoring activities are conducted regularly. Most monitoring programmes aim to evaluate groundwater chemistry and almost completely overlook the microbial component in this ecosystem. In our present study, the bacterial community structure of groundwater in the Wairarapa Valley was examined using the terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP), and relationships between bacterial community structure and groundwater chemistry, aquifer confinement and groundwater usage were explored. In addition, the results from this study were compared with a previous T-RFLP survey of the same area in an attempt to detect changes in bacterial community structure over time. The data obtained suggested that bacterial community structure was related to groundwater chemistry, especially to redox conditions. Species composition showed minimal variation over time if groundwater chemistry remained unchanged. These findings reflect the potential of using bacterial communities as biological indicators to evaluate the health of groundwater ecosystems. We suggest that it is important to include this type of broad bacterial diversity assessment criteria into regular groundwater monitoring activities.