Large-scale pile tests in Mercia mudstone: Data analysis and evaluation of current design methods   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

J. R. Omer  R. B. Robinson  R. Delpak  J. K. C. Shih 《Geotechnical and Geological Engineering》2003,21(3):167-200

Full-scale load tests were carried out on six instrumented large diameter bored, cast in-situ piles formed in Mercia mudstone, as part of the design of a new Viaduct in Cardiff, UK. In this paper, the results from six test piles and extensive data from 218 ground investigation boreholes are systematically processed in order to study the load transfer and resistance mechanisms in Mercia mudstone. Data from strain gauges embedded in each pile are first analysed to calibrate the load-deformation relationship of each pile as-built, taking into account (i) the non-linearity of concrete and (ii) the effect of partial steel encasement on pile stiffness at various levels. The shaft and base capacity of the piles are each predicted using 10 calculation methods belonging to the four basic categories: (i) Undrained analysis, (ii) Drained analysis, (iii) Mixed approach and (iv) Empirical correlation. It is found that the shaft capacity prediction methods are moderately consistent. The standard deviations of the ratio Q _sp/Q _sm of predicted to observed shaft capacity lies in the range 0.06–0.24. However, 8 of these methods are over-conservative, giving Q _sp/Q _sm values in the range 0.29–0.67. The remaining two methods yield Q _sp/Q _sm = 1.01 and 1.49. In contrast, the prediction methods for base capacity are found to be much less consistent. The ratio Q _bp/Q _bm of predicted to measured base capacity falls in the interval 0.52–1.93, with corresponding standard deviations of 0.16–0.82. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.  相似文献   

Chronology and petrogenesis of a 1.8 g lunar granitic clast:14321,1062     

C.-Y. Shih  L.E. Nyquist  D.D. Bogard  J.L. Wooden  B.M. Bansal  H. Wiesmann 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1985,49(2):411-426

A study was undertaken to determine the chronology of a pristine granite clast (1062) from Apollo 14 breccia 14321 using Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd and ³⁹Ar-⁴⁰Ar methods. The genesis of the granite as constrained by the isotopic results and trace element characteristics is discussed.Chronology: The Rb-Sr internal isochron is slightly disturbed and yields an age of 4.09 ± 0.11 AE ($\text{λ(}{}^{87}\text{Rb) = 0.0139}\text{AE}{}^{\mathrm{?1}}$) and an imprecise initial I(Sr) = 0.702 ? .008. If two data are excluded, the age becomes 4.13 ± 0.03 AE and I(Sr) = 0.698 ? .003. The whole rock and mineral separates are extremely radiogenic; they yield model ages which are relatively well-defined. The average model age is 4.12 ± 0.03 AE (relative to BABI = 0.69898). The Sm-Nd internal isochron is also slightly disturbed and gives an age of 4.11 ± 0.20 AE ($\text{λ(}{}^{147}\text{Sm) = 0.00654}\text{AE}$^?1). The ³⁹Ar-⁴⁰Ar average age of the non-magnetic fraction of the sample yields a slightly younger age of 3.88 ± 0.03 AE (K-Ar constants from Steiger and $\text{>a}\text{?}$, 1977). The concordancy of Rb-Sr and Sm-Nd internal isochrons with the Rb-Sr model age strongly suggests that the granitic clast formed at 4.1 AE ago in the shallow crust and was later excavated and brecciated about 3.88 AE ago.Petrogenesis: Isotopic and trace element data of the lunar granite show large K/La and Rb/Sr fractionations, small Sm/Nd fractionation and the distinct V-shaped REE distribution pattern at the time of crystallization. A two-stage model involving crystal fractionation followed by silicate liquid immiscibility (SLI) is proposed for lunar granite genesis. We propose that the granite can be the immiscible acidic liquid produced by SLI from a residual liquid which underwent fractionation of ca, 3% of phases with REE distribution coefficients similar to those of phosphate minerals from a highly evolved parental magma with REE contents about twice those of the 15405,85 quartz monzodiorite (QMD).The extreme scarcity of lunar granitic samples and their young formation ages suggest that they are probably not directly crystallized from the differentiation of the primordial magma ocean. Our isotopic results and trace elements data from other workers suggest that granites, QMD and probably Mggabbronorites may be genetically related and may have formed in a plutonic environment similar to gabbro-granophyre associations in terrestrial layered intrusions such as the Skaergaard Intrusions.  相似文献   

AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE COMPUTATIONAL PROCEDURES OF SPACE RESECTION BY COLLINEARITY EQUATIONS     

T. Y. Shih 《The Photogrammetric Record》1990,13(75):433-440

Space resection with collinearity equations is an elementary task in computational photogrammetry. However, two confusing issues associated with this process were identified from past teaching experiences in a third year university level course of analytical photogrammetry, These two issues, namely the formulation of observation equations and the performance of least squares adjustment, are discussed. Numerical examples are provided for illustration.  相似文献   

A comprehensive disaster impact assessment of extreme rainfall events under climate change: a case study in Zheng-wen river basin,Taiwan     

Tingyeh Wu  Hsin-Chi Li  Shaio-Pin Wei  Wei-Bo Chen  Yung-Ming Chen  Yuan-Fong Su  Jen-Jih Liu  Hung-Ju Shih 《Environmental Earth Sciences》2016,75(7):597

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New discovery of Palaeontinid fossils from the Middle Jurassic in Daohugou, Inner Mongolia (Homoptera, Palaeontinidae)     

SHIH ChungKun 《中国科学D辑(英文版)》2007,50(4):481-486

Three new species of fossil Palaeontinidae are described from Daohugou Village, Inner Mongolia, China: Daohugoucossus shii sp. nov., D. parallelivenius sp. nov., D. lii sp. nov. The diagnosis of Dao- hugoucossus Wang, Zhang and Fang, 2006 is revised. These materials are the first complete fossil palaeontinids in the Middle Jurassic of the world. Based on observation of these new specimens, Sc of this new genus has the following combined characters: joined with R at base, diverged near M separa- tion, coalesced with R before the nodal line, extended beyond the nodal line and fused with R1 before distal end. Due to the Sc characteristics mentioned above, the genus Liaocossus Ren, Yin and Dou, 1998 can be well distinguished from “Ilerdocossus-complex”.  相似文献   

Temperature production in the continental crust due to radioactive heat sources     

Keh-Gong Shih 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》1971,90(1):115-125

Summary The purpose of this paper is to present a method for computing the temperature distribution in the continental crust as a function of depth and time. Computed results indicate that the rise of the temperature due to the decay of long half-life radioactive elements K⁴⁰, U²³⁵, U²³⁸, and Th²³² will reach its maximum 90 m.y. after heat sources and temperature are redistributed in the upper part of the earth. This suggests that the lower part of the crust and upper mantle were periodically remelted before the present stage of the crust was reached. At the present time the decay of the radioactive elements U²³⁸ and Th²³² still significantly influences the crustal temperature. The present near-surface thermal gradient due to the radioactive heat sources alone may reach 20°C/km in a high radioactive heat source province.  相似文献   

Potential volume for CO2 deep ocean sequestration: an assessment of the area located on western Pacific Ocean     

David Ching-Fang Shih  Yih-Min Wu  Jyr-Ching Hu 《Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (SERRA)》2010,24(5):705-711

Captured CO₂ could be deliberately injected into the ocean at great depth, where most of it would remain isolated from the atmosphere for centuries. CO₂ can be transported via pipeline or ship for release in the ocean or on the sea floor. In Taiwan, CO₂ release is preliminarily projected from 2010 to 2030 in an average amount of 6.957 Gt within this duration. If deep sea sequestration for CO₂ can be the possible option in Taiwan, it seems to exists possible potential area delimited between 122.0°E to 122.5°E and 21.8°N to 22.3°N for CO₂ sequestration on account of its isolated and flat topography. Apparently, the area to the southeast of Taiwan is found to reach a depth deeper than −3,000 m and can be taken as a testing area for pilot studies. This study searches the area using the contours from the depth of −4,554 to −5,500 m with 1-m interval; the area, topographic volume, maximum mean height (volume/area), and ocean volume are reported. If the emission rate is kept constantly, for 20-year storage it needs 3 m of thickness reaching the sea ridge at the depth −4,554 m using top-down style; for 100 years of storage it needs 12 m. On the other hand, if it accounts for the bottom the sea floor is taken as the reference and the accumulated CO₂ is stored from the depth at −4,900 m using bottom-up style, it requires about 37 m for the 20-year storage and 61 m for one decade.  相似文献   

Spectral responses of water level in tidal river and groundwater     

David Ching‐Fang Shih  Kin‐Forie Chiou  Chin‐Dee Lee  I‐Sen Wang 《水文研究》1999,13(6):889-911

The water level of five river stages and seven groundwater wells in the Taipei Basin were analysed by spectral analysis in the frequency domain. The diurnal, semi‐diurnal and quarter‐diurnal tidal components of the Tanshui River appear to relate closely to astronomical tides as K₁, M₂ and M₄, respectively. It is also found that the diurnal component reveals a reversed phase angle in the middle section of the Tanshui River; the phase of the quarter‐diurnal component is also found to be reversed at stations upstream in the Tanshui River and Hsintien Stream. It is believed that these phenomena could be caused by local variation in the river channel topography. The autospectrum and cross‐spectrum between groundwater elevation and nearby river stage were observed to correlate highly with the frequency of the astronomical tides K₁, M₂ and M₄. From the study of the phase shift and time lag of water level fluctuations at river stages and groundwater wells, it was found that the tidal effects of diurnal, semi‐diurnal, and quarter‐diurnal components were significantly different. The relationships between phase and the fluctuated range of atmospheric pressure and water level imply that change in atmospheric pressure does not affect water level fluctuation in the river stage and groundwater well. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

The effect of beech stemflow on spatial patterns of soil solution chemistry and seepage fluxes in a mixed beech/oak stand     

Shih‐Chieh Chang  Egbert Matzner 《水文研究》2000,14(1):135-144

Stemflow of beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) represents a significant input of water and elements to the soil and might influence the spatial patterns and the rate of seepage fluxes at the stand scale. We investigated the soil solution chemistry at different depths and distances from the stem and the element fluxes with stemflow, throughfall and seepage in proximal and distal stem areas of a 130‐year‐old beech/oak forest in Steigerwald (northern Bavaria, Germany). The proximal stem area (in total 286 m² ha⁻¹) was defined as a 1 m², 60 cm deep cylinder around the beech stem. Seepage fluxes were calculated by a soil hydrological model for 1996 using measured soil matrix potentials and tree xylem flow data for calibration. Stemflow represented 6·6% of the annual soil water input. With the exception of H⁺ fluxes, less than 10% of the total element fluxes with throughfall and stemflow reached the soil via stemflow. The volume‐weighted concentrations of H⁺, K⁺ and SO₄²⁻ in stemflow were higher than those in throughfall, while other elements had similar concentrations. Soil solution K⁺ concentrations decreased with stem distance, but the Na⁺, Mg²⁺, Cl⁻ and SO₄²⁻ concentrations increased. Gradients for other elements were not statistically significant. Stemflow had a strong influence on the spatial patterns of element fluxes with seepage. The water fluxes through the soil of the proximal stem areas at a depth of 60 cm contributed 13·5% to the total seepage at the stand scale. Proximal to the stems about 20% of total seepage for K⁺, Mn²⁺, Alⁿ⁺, dissolved organic N and dissolved organic C were concentrated, but only 8–10% for Na⁺, Mg²⁺ and Ca²⁺. The loss of acid‐neutralizing capacity calculated from the flux balance was about four times higher proximal to the stems compared with distal areas, indicating high rates of soil acidification proximal to the stems. Our results confirm the concept of a microsite around beech stems, characterized by high element and water fluxes in comparison with distal stem areas. Calculations of seepage fluxes and element budgets in beech stands have to consider the spatial heterogeneity of fluxes induced by stemflow. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Damage detection of a thin plate using modal curvature via macrostrain measurement     

Hsu  Ting Yu  Shih  Yi Cheng  Pham  Quang-Vinh 《地震工程与工程振动(英文版)》2019,18(2):409-424

Plate structures are employed as important structural components in many engineering applications. Hence, assessing the structural conditions of in-service plate structures is critical to monitoring global structural health. Modal curvature-based damage detection techniques have recently garnered considerable attention from the research community, and have become a promising vibration-based structural health monitoring solution. However, computing errors arise when calculating modal curvatures from lateral mode shapes, which result from unavoidable measurement errors in the mode shapes as identified from lateral vibration signals; this makes curvature-based algorithms that use a lateral measurement only theoretically feasible, but practically infeasible. Therefore, in this study, long-gauge fiber Bragg grating strain sensors are employed to obtain a modal curvature without a numerical differentiation procedure in order to circumvent the computing errors. Several damage indices based on modal curvatures that were developed to locate beam damage are employed. Both numerical and experimental studies are performed to validate the proposed approach. However, although previous studies have reported relative success with the application of these damage indices on a simple beam, only one damage index demonstrated the capability to locate damage when the stiffness of the local region changed near the sensor.  相似文献