Direct finite element method for nonlinear earthquake analysis of concrete dams: Simplification,modeling, and practical application

A direct finite element (FE) method for nonlinear response history analysis of semi-unbounded dam-water-foundation systems has recently been presented. The analysis procedure employs standard viscous-damper absorbing boundaries to model the semi-unbounded foundation and fluid domains and specifies the seismic input as effective earthquake forces—determined from a control motion defined at the foundation surface—at these boundaries. Presented in this paper are several simplifications to this direct FE method that greatly facilitates its implementation in commercial FE software. Also addressed is the modeling of the principal nonlinear mechanisms for concrete dams, calibration of damping in the numerical model to ensure consistency with values measured at actual dams, and practical procedures for implementation of the direct FE method with a commercial FE program.     

A novel bidirectional pendulum tuned mass damper using variable homogeneous friction to achieve amplitude-independent control

Passive tuned mass dampers (TMDs) are widely used in controlling structural vibrations. Although their principle is well established, the search for improved arrangements is still under way. This effort has recently produced an innovative paradigm of bidirectional pendulum TMD (BTMD) that, moving along a specially designed three-dimensional (3D) surface, can simultaneously control two in-plane orthogonal structural modes. In existing versions of BTMDs, energy dissipation is provided either by ordinary horizontal viscous dampers or by an original arrangement of vertical friction dampers. In this paper, a new paradigm is proposed, in which energy dissipation comes from the tangential friction arising along the pendulum surface out of an optimal spatially variable friction coefficient pattern. Within this paradigm, if the friction coefficient is taken proportional to the modulus of the pendulum surface gradient, the dissipation model results nonlinear homogeneous in the small-displacement domain, and the performance of the absorber, herein called the homogeneous tangential friction BTMD (HT-BTMD), results independent from the excitation level. The present work introduces this concept, derives the analytical model of the HT-BTMD, establishes a method for its optimal design, and numerically verifies its seismic effectiveness in comparison with viscously damped devices. The validity and feasibility of the concept are demonstrated through experimental tests on a small-scale lab prototype, which also show the efficacy of a stepwise approximation of the homogeneous friction pattern. The new device proves a competing alternative to existing BTMDs, and homogeneous tangential friction proves a promising new paradigm to provide pendular systems with amplitude-independent structural damping.     

Numerical artifacts associated with Rayleigh and modal damping models of inelastic structures with massless coordinates

The paper presents a detailed reexamination of the effects of three damping models on the inelastic seismic response of structures with massless degrees of freedom. The models considered correspond to (a) Rayleigh damping based on current properties (tangent stiffness), (b) Rayleigh damping based on initial properties, and (c) modal damping. The results suggest that some nonzero damping forces/moments at massless DOFs obtained in multistory frames for the case of Rayleigh damping with tangent stiffness may be numerical artifacts rather than a deficiency of the damping model. The results also indicate that significant artificial numerical oscillations in the velocities of the secondary components of MDOF structures are introduced when modal damping or mass-proportional damping is used.     

利用远震研究四川盆地及其周缘瑞利面波相速度和方位各向异性

基于四川盆地及周边的245个宽频带台站2010年9月—2014年9月期间的远震记录,提取双台路径瑞利面波相速度频散资料,反演得到四川盆地20～120s的高分辨率瑞利面波相速度及各向异性空间分布.在丰富区域地球物理基础数据的同时,结合已有研究成果对地壳上地幔变形耦合进行探讨,结果表明短周期(20～30s)的相速度分布与四川盆地的地质构造特征相吻合,作为川滇地块、松潘—甘孜地块和四川盆地之间的边界——龙门山断裂带和鲜水河断裂带对上述三个地块上地壳的速度结构具有明显的控制作用;松潘—甘孜地块,特别是川滇地块中下地壳普遍表现为明显的低速异常,表明中下地壳相对软弱;而四川盆地的中下地壳整体呈现相对高速,表明四川盆地具有相对坚硬的中下地壳.研究区域东南角接近北扬子地块与南扬子地块的缝合部位,呈现高速异常.四川盆地南部和东南邻区不同周期均具有较强的各向异性,且快波方向较为一致,反映这些地区不同深度变形耦合较好.四川盆地西部、北部及东北部邻区,不同周期的各向异性快波方向变化较大,不同深度变形耦合较差.这些特征与绕喜马拉雅东构造结的物质流动被扬子地块的高速地壳阻挡的宏观认识基本一致.     

郯庐断裂带中南段及邻区基于背景噪声的瑞利波群速度层析成像

本文收集了郯庐断裂带中南段及邻区省属和市县地震台网共261个宽频带地震台站2015年1月至2016年12月间的垂直向连续波形资料,利用长时间序列背景噪声互相关法提取台站对之间的经验格林函数,采用时频分析法提取瑞利面波混合路径频散曲线.通过质量控制和严格筛选后得到了15627条路径上的群速度频散曲线,重新构建了郯庐断裂带中南段及邻区瑞利波5～50s、分辨率为0.75°×0.75°的群速度分布图像.分析研究了6个周期的群速度分布图像和3条不同方向的纵向周期剖面,这些图像揭示了郯庐断裂带中南段及邻区地壳上地幔速度结构具有横向分块和纵向成层的非均匀性特征.结果表明,短周期(6s、10s)的群速度分布与地表地质和构造特征密切相关.拥有较厚沉积层的苏北盆地、合肥盆地及河淮盆地等显示为低速,而基岩广泛出露的鲁西隆起、大别—苏鲁造山带、扬子克拉通及华南褶皱系则呈现出大面积的高速异常.随着周期的递增(15s、20s),群速度分布受地表地质构造的影响逐渐弱化.受地壳厚度和莫霍面附近的速度差异影响,大别和苏鲁地区在较长周期(25s、30s)群速度图上表现出相对较低的速度,这可能与这些地方Moho面埋藏较深有关.纵向剖面显示,苏鲁—大别造山带及其高压、超高压变质带不仅在浅地表具有基本相同的地形地貌和构造特征,地壳内也有着极为相似的Rayleigh波群速度分布特征.壳内群速度分布总体上表现为上凸下凹状,形状似一"哑铃".上地壳具有上凸下凹的形态、相比邻区具有较高的群速度值;中地壳低速;下地壳上凸下凹且埋藏较深,反映出具有陆陆碰撞造山的残留山根特征.苏鲁及大别两地自浅地表至上地幔具有相似的Rayleigh波群速度分布不仅为二者被左旋走滑的郯庐带平移错开提供了佐证资料,同时也为郯庐带的形成与演化提供了地震学依据.     

关于土层地震反应分析中阻尼矩阵建模方式的讨论

阻尼矩阵的选择对土层时域内地震反应计算的准确性有重要意义。本文构造了质量比例阻尼、刚度比例阻尼、Rayleigh阻尼、Caughey阻尼和Clough阻尼矩阵,研究各阻尼对土层地震反应分析精度的影响。以苏通大桥5号桥塔基础处的工程场地为例,分别以人工合成基岩波,Northridge波、Parkfield波和汶川波为输入,得到不同阻尼模型下土层的地震反应,结果表明Clough阻尼在计算精度和误差稳定性上要优于其他阻尼模型,针对Clough阻尼的不足之处提出了改进方法,算例表明改进后的Clough阻尼能在保证计算精度的前提下减少计算机的存储量和计算量。     

铜川新区黄土与古土壤动剪切模量比和阻尼比的统计研究

利用铜川市地震小区划项目的大量典型土样动三轴试验结果,采用双曲线模型拟合得到了铜川新区黄土和古土壤在8个典型应变下的动剪切模量比和阻尼比值。根据不同沉积年代和不同土层深度2种方法对黄土、古土壤动剪切模量比和阻尼比随剪应变变化情况进行了统计和对比分析。研究发现:同一剪应变下,黄土、古土壤动剪切模量比随沉积年代和土层深度的增加而增加。二者对黄土动剪切模量比的影响较为显著。     

高光谱分辨率激光雷达(HSRL)大气温度测量模拟

激光雷达探测大气温度通常采用探测大气分子瑞利散射的方法,这种方法由于低层气溶胶的存在,一般只能探测高空（约12km以上）的大气温度,而探空气球又存在不能获取连续数据和定位性差的问题.文章给出了利用高光谱分辨率激光雷达探测大气温度的方法,并对此方法作了理论模拟.结果表明此方法可用于低层大气温度垂直剖面探测.     

Application of advanced system identification technique to extract roll damping from model tests in order to accurately predict roll motions

In this paper our previously developed advanced system identification technique [1] has been applied to extract the frequency dependent roll damping from a series of model tests run in irregular (random) waves. It is shown that this methodology accurately models the roll damping which can then be used to produce accurate predictions of the ships roll motion. These roll motion predictions are not only more accurate than the potential flow predictions but more accurate than potential flow models corrected using either empirical prediction methods [2] and even those corrected using roll damping obtained from free decay sallying experiments. This methodology has the potential to significantly improve roll motion prediction during full scale at sea trails of vessels in order to dramatically improve safety of critical operations such as helicopter landing or ship to ship cargo transfer.     

Experimental Study on Cross-Flow Induced Vibrations in Heat Exchanger Tube Bundle

Vibration in heat exchangers is one of the main problems that the industry has faced over last few decades. Vibration phenomenon in heat exchangers is of major concern for designers and process engineers since it can lead to the tube damage, tube leakage, baffle damage, tube collision damage, fatigue, creep etc. In the present study, vibration response is analyzed on single tube located in the centre of the tube bundle having parallel triangular arrangement (60°) with P/D ratio of 1.44. The experiment is performed for two different flow conditions. This kind of experiment has not been reported in the literature. Under the first condition, the tube vibration response is analyzed when there is no internal flow in the tube and under the second condition, the response is analyzed when the internal tube flow is maintained at a constant value of 0.1 m/s. The free stream shell side velocity ranges from 0.8 m/s to 1.3 m/s, the reduced gap velocity varies from 1.80 to 2.66 and the Reynolds number varies from 44500 to 66000. It is observed that the internal tube flow results in larger vibration amplitudes for the tube than that without internal tube flow. It is also established that over the current range of shell side flow velocity, the turbulence is the dominant excitation mechanism for producing vibration in the tube since the amplitude varies directly with the increase in the shell side velocity. Damping has no significant effect on the vibration behavior of the tube for the current velocity range.