气相色谱-串联质谱技术分析地质调查植物样品中持久性有机污染物的优势

对于复杂基质的样品,采用气相色谱法、气相色谱-质谱法( GC - MS)不能满足当前痕量水平分析的要求,串联质谱已发展成一种有机分析测试的成熟技术可应用于地质调查样品分析.本文建立了气相色谱-串联质谱技术( GC - MS - MS)分析植物样品中有机氯农药及多氯联苯的方法,通过对植物样品(圆白菜、菠菜、胡萝卜、橘子)分析,系统比较了GC- MS-MS与气相色谱-电子捕获检测器(GC-ECD)和气相色谱-选择离子-质谱( GC - SIS - MS)三种分析技术的检出限、定性定量分析结果,确认了分析方法的适用性.GC- MS-MS方法的检出限为0.03～0.29 ng/g,大部分化合物均低于GC -ECD的检出限,是GC - SIS -MS检出限的0.4倍.GC- MS-MS分析表明,圆白菜不含反式-氯丹,排除了GC-ECD的假阳性检出;检测胡萝卜等基质复杂、净化困难的样品,GC- MS-MS也表现出良好的定性定量能力;检出低含量水平样品菠菜含有0.26 ng/g六氯苯,而气相色谱未检出,表明GC- MS-MS显著提高了分析灵敏度,能够对样品中低含量的化合物进行准确定量.在三种分析技术中,GC- MS-MS在样品的准确定性、复杂基质样品分析灵敏度、低含量水平准确定量等方面都具有独特的优势,同时能够应用于复杂样品检测结果的确证.     

Viscoelastic coupling dampers (VCDs) for enhanced wind and seismic performance of high‐rise buildings

As high‐rise buildings are built taller and more slender, their dynamic behavior becomes an increasingly critical design consideration. Wind‐induced vibrations cause an increase in the lateral wind design loads, but more importantly, they can be perceived by building occupants, creating levels of discomfort ranging from minor annoyance to severe motion sickness. The current techniques to address wind vibration perception include stiffening the lateral load‐resisting system, adding mass to the building, reducing the number of stories, or incorporating a vibration absorber at the top of the building; each solution has significant economic consequences for builders. Significant distributed damage is also expected in tall buildings under severe seismic loading, as a result of the ductile seismic design philosophy that is widely used for such structures. In this paper, the viscoelastic coupling damper (VCD) that was developed at the University of Toronto to increase the level of inherent damping of tall coupled shear wall buildings to control wind‐induced and earthquake‐induced dynamic vibrations is introduced. Damping is provided by incorporating VCDs in lieu of coupling beams in common structural configurations and therefore does not occupy any valuable architectural space, while mitigating building tenant vibration perception problems and reducing both the wind and earthquake responses of the structure. This paper provides an overview of this newly proposed system, its development, and its performance benefits as well as the overall seismic and wind design philosophy that it encompasses. Two tall building case studies incorporating VCDs are presented to demonstrate how the system results in more efficient designs. In the examples that are presented, the focus is on the wind and moderate earthquake responses that often govern the design of such tall slender structures while reference is made to other studies where the response of the system under severe seismic loading conditions is examined in more detail and where results from tests conducted on the viscoelastic material and the VCDs in full‐scale are presented. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Vibration analysis of steel structures including the effect of panel zone flexibility based on the energy method

New approximate formulas are proposed to determine the natural frequencies of structures considering the effects of panel zone flexibility and soil-structure interaction. Several structures with various earthquake resisting systems are idealized as prismatic cantilever flexural-shear beams. Floor masses are considered as lumped masses at each story level and masses of columns are evenly distributed along the cantilever beam. Soil-structure interaction is considered as axial and rotational springs, whose potential energy are formulated and incorporated into overall potential energy of the structure. Subsequently, natural frequency equations are derived on the basis of energy conservation principle. The effect of axial forces on natural frequency is also considered in the proposed formulas. Using the method presented in this study, natural frequencies are computed using a simplified method with no complex numerical modeling. The proposed formulas are verified via experimental and numerical methods. Close agreement between the results from these three approaches are observed. Furthermore, the effects of panel zone flexibility, continuity plates and doubler plates on the natural frequencies of buildings are investigated.     

Jovian plasma torus interaction with Europa: 3D hybrid kinetic simulation. First results

The hybrid kinetic model supports comprehensive simulation of the interaction between different spatial and energetic elements of the Europa moon-magnetosphere system with respect to variable upstream magnetic field and flux or density distributions of plasma and energetic ions, electrons, and neutral atoms. This capability is critical for improving the interpretation of the existing Europa flyby measurements from the Galileo orbiter mission, and for planning flyby and orbital measurements (including the surface and atmospheric compositions) for future missions. The simulations are based on recent models of the atmosphere of Europa ( [Cassidy et al., 2007] and [Shematovich et al., 2005]). In contrast to previous approaches with MHD simulations, the hybrid model allows us to fully take into account the finite gyroradius effect and electron pressure, and to correctly estimate the ion velocity distribution and the fluxes along the magnetic field (assuming an initial Maxwellian velocity distribution for upstream background ions). Non-thermal distributions of upstream plasma will be addressed in future work. Photoionization, electron-impact ionization, charge exchange and collisions between the ions and neutrals are also included in our model. We consider two models for background plasma: (a) with O⁺⁺ ions; (b) with O⁺⁺ and S⁺⁺ ions. The majority of O₂ atmosphere is thermal with an extended cold population (Cassidy et al., 2007). A few first simulations already include an induced magnetic dipole; however, several important effects of induced magnetic fields arising from oceanic shell conductivity will be addressed in later work.     

Macroscale and mesoscale analysis of concrete as a multiphase material for biological shields against nuclear radiation

The overall thermo‐hygro‐mechanical behavior of concrete is to be investigated, because its bearing capacity is required together with its shielding properties, specifically when concrete structures are exposed to high‐energy neutron fluxes, which represent the next generation facilities designed for the production of high energy radioactive ion beams in physics research. Irradiation in the form of either fast and thermal neutrons, primary gamma rays or gamma rays produced as a result of neutron capture, are learnt to affect concrete as well as neutron fluences of the order of 10¹⁹ n/cm² and gamma radiation doses of 10¹⁰ rad seem to become critical for concrete strength. The collection of data on concrete samples, variously exposed to neutron radiation, has allowed for defining a law for radiation damage within the FEM research code NEWCON3D, assessing the 3D coupled thermo‐hygro‐mechanical behavior of concrete, modeled as a multiphase porous medium, both at the macroscale and the mesoscale level. The required damage law is thought to be a function of the neutron flux impinging the concrete shielding wall, and a good estimate of this quantity has been provided by means of a Monte Carlo code developed by CERN and the National Institute of Nuclear Physics of Milan, Italy; this code handles radiation transport calculations and represents at this day one of the most reliable procedures for dealing with the interaction of radiation and matter. The suggested procedure for the radiation damage evaluation has allowed for discussing on differences between mesolevel and macrolevel approaches. Stochastic contour maps of the expected radiation field, properly interfaced with the numerical FE code, have allowed for obtaining a more precise evaluation of the radiation damage front as well as its evolution in time. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

True amplitude imaging by inverse generalized Radon transform based on Gaussian beam decomposition of the acoustic Green's function

True amplitude migration is one of the most important procedures of seismic data processing. As a rule it is based on the decomposition of the velocity model of the medium into a known macrovelocity component and its sharp local perturbations to be determined. Under this decomposition the wavefield can be considered as the superposition of an incident and reflected/scattered waves. The single scattering approximation introduces the linear integral operator that connects the sharp local perturbations of the macrovelocity model with the multishot/multioffset data formed from reflected/scattered waves. We develop the pseudoinverse of this operator using the Gaussian beam based decomposition of acoustic Green's functions. The computation of this pseudoinverse operator is done pointwise by shooting Gaussian beams from the target area towards the acquisition system. The numerical implementation of the pseudoinverse operator was applied to the synthetic data Sigsbee2A. The results obtained demonstrate the high quality of the true amplitude images computed both in the smooth part of the model and under the salt body.     

离子色谱法测定冰川雪冰样品中阴离子含量不确定度评定

雪冰内化学成分的记录为全球变化的各个方面,如气候变化、生物地球化学循环、人类活动、地质和宇宙事件等诸多科学命题的研究提供了直接或间接依据,这些化学成分记录主要包括雪冰内的稳定氢氧同位素、重金属、微粒、气溶胶、黑炭、离子等.雪冰内的离子化学成分的研究在冰川雪冰化学研究中具有重要的地位.为了更为准确地反映冰川雪冰内的记录信...     

离子色谱-电感耦合等离子体质谱法测定乳粉的汞形态

对于乳粉的汞形态分析,由于基质的复杂性,有机汞非常容易与样品中蛋白质上的巯基结合,形成稳定的络合物,在前处理过程中须保证各形态提取完全且各形态之间不会发生相互转化,因此样品前处理是汞形态分析的难点;同时乳粉中汞含量极低,对方法检出限提出了更高的要求。本文通过优化样品前处理过程,建立了离子色谱-电感耦合等离子体质谱测定乳粉中三种汞形态(二价汞、甲基汞、乙基汞)的方法。实验采用多种复合酶(蛋白酶、脂肪酶、淀粉酶)对乳粉基质中的蛋白、脂肪、淀粉进行解离,采用L-半胱氨酸-盐酸-甲醇的混合溶液作为提取剂进行超声提取,样品过RP固相萃取小柱去除杂质后用C18色谱柱(5μm,4.6 mm×150 mm)进行分离,流动相采用10 mmol/L乙酸铵-0.12%L-半胱氨酸-5%甲醇混合溶液进行淋洗,5 min内即可实现三种汞形态的基线分离。二价汞、甲基汞和乙基汞的加标回收率在79.9%~111.2%之间,检出限分别为0.5μg/kg、0.6μg/kg、0.9μg/kg。实际样品分析表明,汞总量很低的乳粉,汞各形态的提取率也能达到70%以上,能够满足检测要求。本方法在样品前处理过程中采用酶解的方式解离复杂基体中的汞形态,提高了提取率至80%以上;仪器分析方面采用甲醇作为增敏剂,提高了检测灵敏度,适用于乳粉样品中痕量汞形态的检测。     

拉果错盐湖卤水蒸发机理的分子动力学模拟

采用分子动力学模拟,研究了西藏拉果错盐湖卤水中阴、阳离子以及水分子间的相互作用行为。以盐湖卤水等温蒸发过程中粒子浓度变化的四个阶段为研究对象,分别计算了不同体系的扩散系数、配位数、均方位移和径向分布函数。计算结果表明,液相浓度越低时,H2O分子对各离子之间的相互作用有抑制作用,液相中离子浓度越高时,SO42-易与CO32-竞争Li+形成离子对,从而影响盐湖卤水中Li+的富集。本文研究结果对盐湖卤水中Li+的迁移行为作出了机理解释,为盐湖卤水提锂的发展奠定了理论基础。