Investigation of the characteristics of Portuguese regular moment-frame RC buildings and development of a vulnerability model     

Vitor Silva  Helen Crowley  Humberto Varum  Rui Pinho  Luis Sousa 《Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering》2015,13(5):1455-1490

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Secular variation of seismo-volcanic phenomena in the azores     

Frederico Machado 《Bulletin of Volcanology》1960,23(1):101-108

By studying the past behaviour of Azorean volcanoes, sunspot and Earth tide correlations have been discovered, and may certainly help in prediction. Some evidence has also been found that buckling of the thin roof of magma chambers may be the mechanism responsible for the eruptions, including the accompanying seismic swarms. If this is the case, geodetic control of the adjacent regions will probably be decisive in forecasting future activity.  相似文献   

Seafloor classification using echo-waveforms: a method employing hybrid neural network architecture   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Chakraborty  B. Mahale  V. de Sousa  C. Das  P. 《Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE》2004,1(3):196-200

This letter presents seafloor classification study results of a hybrid artificial neural network architecture known as learning vector quantization. Single beam echo-sounding backscatter waveform data from three different seafloors of the western continental shelf of India are utilized. In this letter, an analysis is presented to establish the hybrid network as an efficient alternative for real-time seafloor classification of the acoustic backscatter data.  相似文献   

Lessons from Ontake-san: A comparative analysis of debris avalanche dynamics   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Barry Voight  James Sousa 《Engineering Geology》1994,38(3-4):261-297

Dynamic aspects of the long runout Ontake-san debris avalanche are evaluated by a comparison of several models. An unsteady numerical model assumes two-dimensional flow of an incompressible biviscous or Newtonian fluid, represented as a continuum with a free surface. Internal deformation of the flowing mass is considered, as well as boundary resistances. Thus flow thinning and deposit shape as well as flow kinematics may be modeled. Parameters are adjusted to match observed runout, with additional constraints on velocity and emplacement time. With abundant constraints for Ontake-san, from careful field investigations by Japanese research teams, our analysis indicates that a substantial decrease in flow resistance occurred as a function of displacement. Constant-property models that match runout tend to overestimate the peak velocities and to underestimate the emplacement times. A staged increase in mobility in both constant volume and variable volume models leads to results consistent with field data. Runout in a channel overflow area was also modeled. Qualitatively similar results have been obtained by other researchers using simple sliding block models with empirical parameters, a slide block model with rational parameter selection, a modified flood simulation, and a multi-element frictional slide model. The relative merits of these models are compared.

The field mechanisms associated with this mobility increase with displacement are poorly understood, but the question is now identified as a target for future research at debris avalanche sites, and some plausible mechanisms are considered. The main reason probably involves the entrainment of river water and saturated sediment, leading to enhanced efficiency of fluid pressure mechanisms with undrained shear; in addition, progressive shearing reduced the mean particle size and angularity, and the cohesion and friction (and apparent viscosity) of avalanche debris near the wetted perimeter. Hydroplaning — the shearing of water films and slurries — may have occurred locally.  相似文献   

Coseismic reactivation of the Samambaia fault, Brazil     

Francisco H.R. Bezerra  Mrio K. Takeya  Maria O.L. Sousa  Aderson F. do Nascimento 《Tectonophysics》2007,430(1-4):27-39

Northeastern Brazil is, within the present knowledge of historical and instrumental seismicity, one the most seismic active areas in intraplate South America. Seismic activity in the region has occurred mainly around the Potiguar basin. This seismicity includes earthquake swarms characterized by instrumentally-recorded events ≤ 5.2 m_b and paleoseismic events ≥ 7.0. Our study concentrates in the João Câmara (JC) epicentral area, where an earthquake swarm composed of more than 40,000 aftershocks occurred mainly from 1986 to 1990 along the Samambaia fault; 14 of which had m_b > 4.0 and two of which had 5.1 and 5.0 m_b. We describe and compare this aftershock sequence with the present-day stress field and the tectonic fabric in an attempt to understand fault geometry and local control of seismogenic faulting. Earthquake data indicate that seismicity decreased steadily from 1986 to 1998. We selected 2,746 epicenters, which provided a high-quality and precise dataset. It indicates that the fault trends 37° azimuth, dips 76°–80° to NW, and forms an alignment  27 km long that cuts across the NNE–SSW-trending ductile Precambrian fabric. The depth of these events ranged from  1 km to  9 km. The fault forms an echelon array of three main left-bend segments: one in the northern and two in the southern part of the fault. A low-seismicity zone, which marks a contractional bend, occurs between the northern and southern segments. Focal mechanisms indicate that the area is under an E–W-oriented compression, which led to strike–slip shear along the Samambaia fault with a small normal component. The fault is at 53° to the maximum compression and is severely misoriented for reactivation under the present-day stress field. The seismicity, however, spatially coincides with a brittle fabric composed of quartz veins and silicified-fault zones. We conclude that the Samambaia fault is a discontinuous and reactivated structure marked at the surface by a well-defined brittle fabric, which is associated with silica-rich fluids.  相似文献   

Consistent modeling of a catastrophic flowslide at the Shenzhen landfill using a hydro-elasto-plastic model with solid–fluid transition     

Z. H. Li  Y. J. Jiang  Q. Lv  L. R. Sousa  M. C. He 《Acta Geotechnica》2018,13(6):1451-1466

Flow-type landslides are an important hazard that can cause great destruction due to the rapid flow velocity and large disaster area. This paper presents a catastrophic flowslide that recently occurred at a landfill in Shenzhen, China. This disaster involved an area about 1100 m in length and 630 m in maximum width, and caused the death of 77 people and the destruction of 33 buildings. The precise reason for the landfill’s failure is still unknown, and therefore we try to contribute an increased understanding of the event for future prevention. In this study, the failure mechanism of the studied slope was analyzed and described under partially saturated condition. The solid–fluid transition during the flowslide occurrence was described using a unified constitutive model. The model was used to perform the hydro-elasto-plastic modeling in the pre-failure stage, the viscous modeling in the post-failure stage, and the second-order work criterion was introduced in between to model the solid–fluid transition. The consistent evolution of the flowslide, including initiation, propagation, and deposit stages, was simulated and analyzed using the finite element method with Lagrangian integration points after careful calibration of the viscous parameters. The numerical results were compared with the real case and used to explain the failure mechanism.  相似文献   

Wavelet-based variability on streamflow at 40-year timescale in the Black Sea region of Turkey     

Celso Augusto Guimarães Santos  Ozgur Kisi  Richarde Marques da Silva  Mohammad Zounemat-Kermani 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2018,11(8):169

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Population-based sampling methods for geological well testing     

Hamidreza Hamdi  Yasin Hajizadeh  Mario Costa Sousa 《Computational Geosciences》2015,19(5):1089-1107

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Analysis of Intermittency in Submillimeter Radio and Hard X-Ray Data During the Impulsive Phase of a Solar Flare     

G. Giménez de Castro  P. J. A. Simões  J.-P. Raulin  O. M. Guimarães 《Solar physics》2016,291(7):2003-2016

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Factors determining subsidence in urbanized floodplains: evidence from MT‐InSAR in Seville (southern Spain)          下载免费PDF全文

Ana Ruiz‐Constán  Antonio M. Ruiz‐Armenteros  Jesús Galindo‐Zaldívar  Francisco Lamas‐Fernández  Joaquim João Sousa  Carlos Sanz de Galdeano  Antonio Pedrera  Sergio Martos‐Rosillo  Miguel Caro Cuenca  J. Manuel Delgado  Ramon F. Hanssen  Antonio J. Gil 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2017,42(14):2484-2497

Major rivers have traditionally been linked with important human settlements throughout history. The growth of cities over recent river deposits makes necessary the use of multidisciplinary approaches to characterize the evolution of drainage networks in urbanized areas. Since under‐consolidated fluvial sediments are especially sensitive to compaction, their spatial distribution, thickness, and mechanical behavior must be studied. Here, we report on subsidence in the city of Seville (Southern Spain) between 2003 and 2010, through the analysis of the results obtained with the Multi‐Temporal InSAR (MT‐InSAR) technique. In addition, the temporal evolution of the subsidence is correlated with the rainfall, the river water column and the piezometric level. Finally, we characterize the geotechnical parameters of the fluvial sediments and calculate the theoretical settlement in the most representative sectors. Deformation maps clearly indicate that the spatial extent of subsidence is controlled by the distribution of under‐consolidated fine‐grained fluvial sediments at heights comprised in the range of river level variation. This is clearly evident at the western margin of the river and the surroundings of its tributaries, and differs from rainfall results as consequence of the anthropic regulation of the river. On the other hand, this influence is not detected at the eastern margin due to the shallow presence of coarse‐grain consolidated sediments of different terrace levels. The derived results prove valuable for implementing urban planning strategies, and the InSAR technique can therefore be considered as a complementary tool to help unravel the subsidence tendency of cities located over under‐consolidated fluvial deposits. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献