Analysis and interpretation of the seismic response of RC buildings in Concepción during the February 27, 2010, Chile earthquake     

Benjamín Westenenk  Juan Carlos de la Llera  Rosita Jünemann  Matías A. Hube  Juan José Besa  Carl Lüders  José Antonio Inaudi  Rafael Riddell  Rodrigo Jordán 《Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering》2013,11(1):69-91

Observed trends in the seismic performance of eight severely damaged reinforced concrete (RC) structures after the February 27, 2010, Chile earthquake are presented in this article. After a reconnaissance and surveying process conducted immediately after the earthquake, several aspects not conventionally considered in building design were observed in the field. Most of the considered structures showed extensive localized damage in walls of lower stories and first basements. Several factors indicate that damage was brittle, and occurred mainly in recent RC structures supported on soft soils with some degree of vertical and/or horizontal irregularity. Non-ductile behavior has been inferred due to the lack of evidence of spread damage in the structure, and the fact that very similar structural configurations existed nearby without apparent damage. Some key aspects in understanding the observed damage are: geographical orientation of the building, presence of vertical and horizontal irregularities, wall thickness and reinforcement detailing, and lack of sources for energy dissipation. Additionally, results of a building-code type analysis are presented for the 4 most critical buildings, and Demand/Capacity ratios are calculated and compared with the observed behavior. It is concluded that the design codes must be revised relative to wall design provisions.  相似文献   

Determination of Carbon,Hydrogen, Nitrogen and Sulfur in Geological Materials Using Elemental Analysers     

Maria F. Gazulla  Marta Rodrigo  Monica Orduña  Carmen M. Gómez 《Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research》2012,36(2):201-217

This article describes a series of methods developed for the determination of total carbon (C_Total), organic carbon (C_org), hydrogen, nitrogen and sulfur. The following elemental analysers were used: LECO model RC‐412 for the determination of organic carbon, total carbon and hydrogen; LECO model CS‐200 for the determination of total carbon and sulfur; LECO model TN‐400 for the determination of nitrogen; and LECO model TruSpec CHNS for the determination of organic carbon, total carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and sulfur. Uncertainty and limits of detection and quantification were calculated for each method, as well as the running costs to define the most effective instrument for each material and each analyte. Accuracy was checked by the application of the Sutarno–Steger test. Finally, a compilation of the results obtained in the determination of C_Total, C_org, H, N and S in forty‐nine reference materials is presented.  相似文献   

Theoretical analysis and simulation for avoiding antenna oscillations without distributed resistance     

Gonzalo Garcia  Jos A. Uribe  David Ulloa  Rodrigo Zamora  Gino Casassa 《Journal of Applied Geophysics》2009,67(4):374

The so-called Wu and King antenna pattern is widely used in GPR because of its simple design and construction features. The main disadvantage is its limited efficiency due to transmitter energy losses which occur through lumped resistors. Based on the analysis of the electromagnetic field behaviour across the antenna, it is possible to replace the effect of the resistors by either storing the energy of the electric pulses, or damp them by means of one matched resistor, which will theoretically improve the efficiency of the antenna. In this paper we provide a theoretical analysis using a modified transmission line model together with simulation based on delayed potentials among other electromagnetic software, and measurement results using an impulse transmitter with fast MOSFET switches and a matched resistor that support this idea.  相似文献   

Field Survey of the 2015 Chile Tsunami with Emphasis on Coastal Wetland and Conservation Areas     

Manuel Contreras-López  Patricio Winckler  Ignacio Sepúlveda  Adolfo Andaur-Álvarez  Fernanda Cortés-Molina  Camila J. Guerrero  Cyntia E. Mizobe  Felipe Igualt  Wolfgang Breuer  José F. Beyá  Hernán Vergara  Rodrigo Figueroa-Sterquel 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》2016,173(2):349-367

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A Study of the 2015 Mw 8.3 Illapel Earthquake and Tsunami: Numerical and Analytical Approaches     

Mauricio Fuentes  Sebastián Riquelme  Gavin Hayes  Miguel Medina  Diego Melgar  Gabriel Vargas  José González  Angelo Villalobos 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》2016,173(6):1847-1858

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Influence of the construction process and nonstructural components on the modal properties of a five‐story building          下载免费PDF全文

Rodrigo Astroza  Hamed Ebrahimian  Joel P. Conte  José I. Restrepo  Tara C. Hutchinson 《地震工程与结构动力学》2016,45(7):1063-1084

A full‐scale five‐story reinforced concrete building was built and tested on the NEES‐UCSD shake table during the period from May 2011 to May 2012. The purpose of this test program was to study the response of the structure and nonstructural components and systems (NCSs) and their dynamic interaction during seismic base excitation of different intensities. The building specimen was tested first under a base‐isolated condition and then under a fixed‐based condition. As the building was being erected, an accelerometer array was deployed on the specimen to study the evolution of its modal parameters during the construction process and placement of major NCSs. A sequence of dynamic tests, including daily ambient vibration, shock (free vibration) and forced vibration tests (low‐amplitude white noise and seismic base excitations), were performed on the building at different stages of construction. Different state‐of‐the‐art system identification methods, including three output‐only and two input‐output methods, were used to estimate the modal properties of the building. The obtained results allow to investigate in detail the effects of the construction process and NCSs on the dynamic parameters of this building system and to compare the modal properties obtained from different methods, as well as the performance of these methods. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Soil compaction under different management practices in a Croatian vineyard     

Igor Bogunovic  Darija Bilandzija  Zeljko Andabaka  Domagoj Stupic  Jesús Rodrigo Comino  Marija Cacic  Luka Brezinscak  Edi Maletic  Paulo Pereira 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2017,10(15):340

The use of machinery in vineyards is increasing soil compaction and erosion. However, there is a lack of information about the impacts of different management practices on soil conditions of vineyards. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess soil compaction in Croatian vineyards under four different management systems: no-tillage (NT) system, conventional tillage (CT), yearly inversed grass covered (INV-GC) and tillage managed (INV-T) treatments. Four key top-soil (0–20 cm) parameters were assessed in the different land uses: bulk density (BD), penetration resistance (PR), soil water content (SWC) and carbon dioxide (CO₂) fluxes. Tractor traffic increased the BD and PR in all treatments, with exception of CT treatment, as consequence of tillage. SWC showed higher values in INV-GC treatment during the dry period; meanwhile, it was similar during the wet season in every management type. Lower CO₂ fluxes were found in INV-GC and NT than in the CT and INV-T treatments.  相似文献   

Correlations between deep convection and lightning activity on a global scale     

Eldo E. Ávila  Rodrigo E. Bürgesser  Nesvit E. Castellano  Andrew B. Collier  Rosa H. Compagnucci  Arthur R.W. Hughes 《Journal of Atmospheric and Solar》2010,72(14-15):1114-1121

Satellite observations of cloud top temperature and lightning flash distribution are used to examine the relationship between deep convection and lightning activity over the tropical regions of the northern and southern hemispheres. In agreement with previous work, the analysis of the results shows that, in the summer of both hemispheres, the lightning activity in continental deep convective storms is more intense than that in marine deep convective storms by a factor of between 7 and 10. Furthermore, it was observed that on average the daily lightning rate per 1°×1° grid cell for the southern hemisphere (SH) is about 20% greater than that of the northern hemisphere (NH), which can be attributed to a larger fractional cover by deep convective clouds in the SH. By using a set of independent indicators, it is shown that deep convection and lightning activity over land are well correlated (with correlation coefficients of 0.8 and 0.6 for NH and SH, respectively). This suggests the capacity for observations to act as a possible method of monitoring continental deep convective clouds, which play a key role in regulating the Earth’s climate. Since lightning can be monitored easily from ground networks and satellites, it could be a useful tool for validating the performance of model convective schemes and for monitoring changes in climate parameters.  相似文献   

Diseases leading to accelerated decline of reef corals in the largest South Atlantic reef complex (Abrolhos Bank, eastern Brazil)     

Francini-Filho RB  Moura RL  Thompson FL  Reis RM  Kaufman L  Kikuchi RK  Leão ZM 《Marine pollution bulletin》2008,56(5):1008-1014

Although reef corals worldwide have sustained epizootics in recent years, no coral diseases have been observed in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean until now. Here we present an overview of the main types of diseases and their incidence in the largest and richest coral reefs in the South Atlantic (Abrolhos Bank, eastern Brazil). Qualitative observations since the 1980s and regular monitoring since 2001 indicate that coral diseases intensified only recently (2005–2007). Based on estimates of disease prevalence and progression rate, as well as on the growth rate of a major reef-building coral species (the Brazilian-endemic Mussismilia braziliensis), we predict that eastern Brazilian reefs will suffer a massive coral cover decline in the next 50 years, and that M. braziliensis will be nearly extinct in less than a century if the current rate of mortality due to disease is not reversed.  相似文献   

HAND contour: a new proxy predictor of inundation extent          下载免费PDF全文

Antonio Donato Nobre  Luz Adriana Cuartas  Marcos Rodrigo Momo  Dirceu Luís Severo  Adilson Pinheiro  Carlos Afonso Nobre 《水文研究》2016,30(2):320-333

Tools for accurately predicting environmental risks, such as the location and spatial extent of potential inundation, are not widely available. A dependence on calibration and a lack of available flood data have prevented the widespread application of existing hydrodynamic methods for predicting the extent of inundation. We use the height above the nearest drainage (HAND) terrain model to develop a simple static approach for mapping the potential extent of inundation that does not depend on flood observations and extends beyond methods for mapping low‐lying areas. While relying on the contour concept, the method utilizes drainage‐normalized topography and flowpaths to delineate the relative vertical distances (drop) to the nearest river. The HAND‐delineated relative drop is an effective distributed predictor of flood potential, which is directly related to the river stage height. We validated the new HAND contour approach using a flood event in Southern Brazil for which high‐resolution maps were available. The results indicated that the flood hazard‐mapping method accurately predicted the inundation extent of the channel carrying the flood wave and the channels influenced by flooding. For channels positioned outside of the flood‐wave area, the method overestimated the actual flood extent. As an original static assessment of floodwaters across the landscape, the HAND contour method could be used to map flood hazards in areas with poor information and could promote the development of new methods for predicting hydrological hazards. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献