Triton: stratospheric molecules and organic sediments     

Thompson WR  Singh SK  Khare BN  Sagan C 《Geophysical research letters》1989,16(8):981-984

Hydrocarbons and nitriles are produced in Triton's stratosphere by energetic electrons from Neptune's magnetosphere and other charged particle sources. Laboratory plasma experiments reported here show a substantial yield of molecules from low pressure flows of 10(-3) CH4 in N2 appropriate to Triton if both CH4 and N2 are saturated at the surface. An active magnetosphere similar to that of Uranus would result in a flux approximately 0.3 erg cm-2 s-1 of 0.1-1 MeV electrons in Triton's stratosphere; molecular production rates are then 10(6)-10(8) cm-2 s-1 for NH3, C2H2, HCN, and NCCN; tens of hundreds of gm cm-2 of these compounds per 10(9) yr (and lesser quantities of at least eight other molecules experimentally detected) would freeze to fine-grained white condensates in the lower stratosphere and sediment to the surface. Along with dark/colored organic haze produced in the stratosphere and other heteropolymers produced at the surface, these condensates are subjects to redistribution by aeolian processes and may appear as lag deposits and/or sediment layers. A simple eddy diffusion model indicates abundances approximately 10(19) molec cm-2 for HCN and C2H2, and > 10(17) molec cm-2 for NCCN, CH3CCH, CH2CCH2, and CH3CN in the stratosphere; these and other organic molecules will be detectable by IRIS if the stratosphere is (as expected) heated through ultraviolet and visible light absorption by the haze.  相似文献   

Seismic response of pile groups under oblique-shear and Rayleigh waves     

Nicos Makris  Deepak Badoni 《地震工程与结构动力学》1995,24(4):517-532

A simple analytical solution is presented to calculate the pile-soil-pile interaction and eventually the dynamic response of pile groups when excited by the passage of Rayleigh waves and obliquely incident SH-waves. A dynamic Winkler model, with realistic frequency-dependent ‘springs’ and ‘dashpots’ in conjunction with physically motivated approximations is utilized to compute the wave field radiating from an oscillating pile and the effect of this field on an adjacent pile. The coupled rocking motion of the pile group resulting from Rayleigh waves and the torsional motion of the pile group resulting from SH-waves is accurately predicted by a simple mathematical expression. The results of the presented method can be obtained with ‘hand calculations’ and are in excellent agreement with results from ‘rigorous’ solutions based on integral equation formulations. It is found that the group response is primarily affected from the phase difference of the input seismic motion at the location of each pile (wave-passage effect). Pile-soil-pile interaction has insignificant effect and can be neglected.  相似文献   

Nonlinear response of single piles under lateral inertial and seismic loads   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Deepak Badoni  Nicos Makris 《Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering》1996,15(1):29-43

A macroscopic model that consists of distributed hysteretic springs and frequency dependent -pots is utilized to model the lateral soil reaction and a practical method based on one-dimensional finite element formulation is developed to compute the nonlinear response of single piles under dynamic lateral loads. The model is physically motivated, adequate for cohesive and cohesionless soils, and involves standard geotechnical parameters. Only two parameters have to be calibrated by fitting experimental data. Hysteretic and radiation damping are modeled realistically within the practical range of amplitudes and frequencies. The model is calibrated and validated against five well instrumented full-scale experiments and typical values for the range of the model-parameters are provided. Subsequently, the developed model is utilized to study the nonlinear seismic response of single piles. Finally, the developed method and the calibrated model are used to predict the inertial and seismic response of one of the piles used in the foundation of the Ohba bridge near Tokyo, Japan.  相似文献   

GPR studies over the tsunami affected Karaikal beach,Tamil Nadu,south India     

V J Loveson  A R Gujar  R Barnwal  Richa Khare  G V Rajamanickam 《Journal of Earth System Science》2014,123(6):1375-1385

In this study, results of GPR profiling related to mapping of subsurface sedimentary layers at tsunami affected Karaikal beach are presented . A 400 MHz antenna was used for profiling along 262 m stretch of transect from beach to backshore areas with penetration of about 2.0 m depth (50 ns two-way travel time). The velocity analysis was carried out to estimate the depth information along the GPR profile. Based on the significant changes in the reflection amplitude, three different zones are marked and the upper zone is noticed with less moisture compared to other two (saturated) zones. The water table is noticed to vary from 0.5 to 0.75 m depth (12–15 ns) as moving away from the coastline. Buried erosional surface is observed at 1.5 m depth (40–42 ns), which represents the limit up to which the extreme event acted upon. In other words, it is the depth to which the tsunami sediments have been piled up to about 1.5 m thickness. Three field test pits were made along the transect and sedimentary sequences were recorded. The sand layers, especially, heavy mineral layers, recorded in the test pits indicate a positive correlation with the amplitude and velocity changes in the GPR profile. Such interpretation seems to be difficult in the middle zone due to its water saturation condition. But it is fairly clear in the lower zone located just below the erosional surface where the strata is comparatively more compact. The inferences from the GPR profile thus provide a lucid insight to the subsurface sediment sequences of the tsunami sediments in the Karaikal beach.  相似文献   

The chemical composition of tertiary Indian coal ash and its combustion behaviour – a statistical approach: Part 2     

Arpita Sharma  Ananya Saikia  Puja Khare  D K Dutta  B P Baruah 《Journal of Earth System Science》2014,123(6):1439-1449

In Part 1 of the present investigation, 37 representative Eocene coal samples of Meghalaya, India were analyzed and their physico-chemical characteristics and the major oxides and minerals present in ash samples were studied for assessing the genesis of these coals. Various statistical tools were also applied to study their genesis. The datasets from Part 1 used in this investigation (Part 2) show the contribution of major oxides towards ash fusion temperatures (AFTs). The regression analysis of high temperature ash (HTA) composition and initial deformation temperature (IDT) show a definite increasing or decreasing trend, which has been used to determine the predictive indices for slagging, fouling, and abrasion propensities during combustion practices. The increase or decrease of IDT is influenced by the increase of Fe₂O₃, Al₂O₃, SiO₂, and CaO, respectively. Detrital-authigenic index (DAI) calculated from the ash composition and its relation with AFT indicates Sialoferric nature of these coals. The correlation analysis, Principal Component Analysis (PCA), and Hierarchical Cluster Analysis (HCA) were used to study the possible fouling, slagging, and abrasion potentials in boilers during the coal combustion processes. A positive relationship between slagging and heating values of the coal has been found in this study.  相似文献   

New Method to Compute Seismic Active Earth Pressure on Retaining Wall Considering Seismic Waves     

Deepankar Choudhury  Amey Deepak Katdare  Anindya Pain 《Geotechnical and Geological Engineering》2014,32(2):391-402

In earthquake prone areas, calculation of seismic active earth pressure on retaining wall is very important. Analytical methods till date for computation of seismic active earth pressure do not consider the effect of Rayleigh wave though it constitutes about 67 % of the total seismic energy. In this paper a new dynamic approach is proposed by considering all possible seismic waves viz. primary, shear and Rayleigh waves for estimation of seismic active earth pressure on rigid retaining wall by satisfying all the boundary conditions. Limit equilibrium method is used for estimation of optimised seismic active earth pressure for a rigid retaining wall supporting cohesionless backfill with critical combinations of seismic accelerations. The seismic influence zone obtained in this study is about 22 and 17 % larger when compared with available pseudo-static and pseudo-dynamic methods respectively, which indicates the significant effect of Rayleigh wave. Also, there is an increase of about 14 and 6 % in seismic active earth pressure coefficient when the present results are typically compared with pseudo-static and pseudo-dynamic methods respectively. Moreover present results compare well with the available experimental results. Present results are more critical for the design estimation of seismic active earth pressure by considering all major seismic waves as proposed in the new dynamic approach.  相似文献   

Stability of two superposed homogeneous fluids under uniform magnetic field     

R. P. Singh  H. C. Khare 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1991,186(1):125-135

The instability of two superposed homogeneous fluids is discussed under gravitational force and uniform magnetic field. The perturbation propagation is taken simultaneously along and perpendicular to streaming motion in the horizontal plane z=0. The critical wave numberk ^* has been found and some special cases of interest are discussed.  相似文献   

Chemical evolution of the high redshift galaxies     

Pushpa Khare  N. C. Rana 《Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy》1993,14(2):83-95

We have tried to determine the rate of chemical evolution of high redshift galaxies from the observed redshift distribution of the heavy element absorption systems in the spectra of QSOs, taking into account the evolution in the intensity of the metagalactic UV ionizing radiation background, the radius and/or the co-moving number density of, and the fraction of mass in the form of gas in, the absorbers. The data for both the Lyman limit systems and the C IV systems have been fitted simultaneously. It seems that the abundance of carbon has possibly increased by about a factor of 5 to 20 from the cosmic time corresponding to the redshift ≃ 4 to 2. The data also suggest that either the radius or the co-moving number density of the galaxies increased with redshift up to z = 2.0 and decreased slowly thereafter. The total mass of the halo gas was higher in the past, almost equal to the entire mass of the galaxy at z = 4. The hydrogen column density distribution for Lyman limit systems predicted by the model is in agreement with the observed distribution.  相似文献   

Mechanical Study of Shear Failure of Vertical Goaf Drainage Hole     

Khanal  Manoj  Adhikary  Deepak  Balusu  Rao  Wilkins  Andy  Belle  Bharath 《Geotechnical and Geological Engineering》2022,40(4):1899-1920

Geotechnical and Geological Engineering - Most of the published research on goaf-hole failures are performed using 2D numerical analyses. However, 2D analyses of the goaf-hole failure mechanism,...  相似文献   

A gravitationally non-degenerate cosmological model with expanding and shearing viscous fluid in general relativity     

Raj Bali  Deepak Raj Jain 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1987,139(1):175-181

The object of this paper is to investigate the behaviour of viscosity in a cosmological model, in which the coefficient of shear viscosity is assumed to be proportional to rate of expansion in the model. The behaviour of the model in the absence of shear viscosity is also discussed.  相似文献