Quality ranking of twelve columnar basalt occurrences in the northern portion of the Paraná Basin—Brazil

This paper presents results obtained from a study of basal degrading conducted on samples of basaltic rocks found in the northern part of the Paraná Basin in the State of São Paulo, Brazil. To meet the objectives of the study, natural and accelerated alteration tests were carried out followed by a comparison of the quantitative analysis of the two alteration processes. The combined analysis of the information proved to be very useful tool for rock qualification and the quantification of alterability, thus providing a basis for comparative analysis of massive and columnar jointed basalt relative to their use as aggregate for civil construction purposes.     

火焰原子吸收光谱法测定银锡焊料中的微量铅

利用四价锡的氯化物沸点较低的性质,将锡挥发除去,并用硫脲络合银离子,以消除银和锡对铅测定的干扰。制定了火焰原子吸收光谱法测定银锡焊料样品中微量铅的分析方法。方法准确、可靠、简便、快速,完全适用于银锡焊料中微量铅的检验。     

What Kind of Assessment for What Kind of Geography? Advanced Placement Human Geography*

This article raises awareness of the recently introduced Advanced Placement course in Human Geography by describing the design and management of assessment in the course. Standards are maintained through the choice of assessment instrument, the development of test items, scoring, and grade‐setting. The article contributes to a deeper understanding of the opportunities and threats of standardized testing within geography.     

Operator‐splitting method for real‐time substructure testing

It has been shown that the operator‐splitting method (OSM) provides explicit and unconditionally stable solutions for quasi‐static pseudo‐dynamic substructure testing. However, the OSM provides only an explicit target displacement but not an explicit target velocity, so that it is essentially an implicit method for real‐time substructure testing (RST) when the velocity‐dependent restoring force is considered. This paper proposes a target velocity formulation based on the forward difference of the predicted displacements so as to render the OSM explicit for RST. The stability and accuracy of the resulting OSM‐RST algorithm are investigated. It is shown that the OSM‐RST is unconditionally stable so long as the non‐linear stiffness and damping are of the softening type (i.e. the tangent stiffness and damping never exceed the initial values). The stability of the OSM‐RST for structures with infinite tangent damping coefficient or stiffness is also proved, and the stability of the method for MDOF structures with a non‐classical damping matrix is demonstrated by an energy criterion. The effects of actuator delay and compensation are analysed based on the bilinear approximation of the actuator step response. Experiments on damped SDOF and MDOF structures verify that the stability of the OSM‐RST is preserved when the experimental substructure generates velocity‐dependent reaction forces, whereas the stability of real‐time substructure tests based on the central difference method is worsened by the damping of the specimen. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Bench–shelf system dynamic characteristics and their effects on equipment and contents

Economic losses during past earthquakes are strongly associated with damage and failure to nonstructural equipment and contents. Among the vast types of nonstructural elements, one important category, is scientific equipment in biological or chemical laboratories. These equipment are often mounted on heavy ceramic bench‐tops of bench–shelf systems, which in turn may amplify the dynamic motions imposed. To investigate the seismic response of these types of systems, a series of shake table and field experiments were conducted considering different representative bench and shelf‐mounted equipment and contents. Results from shake table experiments indicate that these equipment are generally sliding‐dominated. In addition, the bench–shelf system is observed to be very stiff and when lightly loaded, has a fundamental frequency between 10 and 16 Hz. An approximate 50% reduction in the first and second fundamental frequencies is observed considering practical loading conditions. Insight into a broader range of system response is provided by conducting eigenvalue and time history analyses. Non‐linear regression through the numerical data indicate acceleration amplification ratios Ω range from 2.6 to 1.4 and from 4.3 to 1.6, for fixed–fixed and pinned–pinned conditions, respectively. Both the experimental and numerical results support the importance of determining the potential dynamic amplification of motion in the context of accurately determining the maximum sliding displacement of support equipment and contents. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Considerations for the development of real‐time dynamic testing using servo‐hydraulic actuation

This paper presents a study of the use of servo‐hydraulic systems in the implementation of real‐time large‐scale structural testing methods in force control such as effective force testing (EFT) and in displacement control such as real‐time pseudodynamic testing (RPsD). Mathematical models for both types of control systems are presented and used to investigate the influences of servo‐systems on the overall system performance. Parameters investigated include the overall system dynamics, nonlinearities of servo‐systems, actuator damping, system mass including piston mass, and system response delay. Results of both numerical simulations and experiments showed that many of the influences of the servo‐hydraulic system that significantly affect the real‐time dynamic tests can be properly compensated through control schemes identified in this paper. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

沉管桩施工与检测中某些技术问题的探讨

在含有大量生活垃圾形成的复杂软弱层中，按常规方法施工沉管桩，将造成严重的缩径现象。震动沉管施工规范中又未有特殊规定，笔者根据一大型工程实例，分析了造成严重的缩径现象的原因，提出在上部杂填土是由大量生活垃圾组成并夹有软质粘土、淤泥层时，应优先选用预制桩工艺；对于振动沉管应采用复打或多次反插工艺，并跳打；应禁止单独采用慢速拨管工艺。     

山前洪积扇地基岩土勘察和测试工作——以郑州发祥铝业建设工程为例

简述了洪积扇地形地貌、土层结构、水文地质、特殊性岩土等各种工程地质条件，划分了勘察阶段，明确了各阶段勘察目的和任务，并重点介绍了在详细勘察阶段优质、高效完成野外勘察和测试工作的成功经验，明确指出了洪积扇场地非常适合钻孔、探井、测井等勘察手段和动力触探等原位测试方法。     

软件工程中并发测试的研究与实践

随着计算机技术和Internet的发展，相对于以前的单机版的应用软件，目前已有众多的网络版应用软件犹如雨后春笋，不断的涌现出来，这对传统的测试方法和理论提出了新的挑战。这里重点介绍了基于Internet网络版应用程序的并发测试方法研究与技巧，提供了一些实践经验，总结了在并发测试时应该注意的一些实际问题。     

鄂西高速公路岩体结构面强度参数试验研究

对湖北省西部某高速公路宜昌—恩施段主要岩体结构面(层面)的抗剪强度参数进行了较系统的试验研究,包括岩体结构面的野外地质调查、岩体结构面原位直剪试验、结构面室内模拟试验及岩体力学参数估值等。通过对各种试验数据进行整理、分析和对比,得到了岩体结构面强度参数。最后在岩体工程分类的基础上,利用Hoek-Brown经验方法对各类岩体结构面强度参数进行了估算。综合以上多种数据,并考虑岩体结构面所处具体地质条件,提出了各类岩体结构面强度参数建议值。