Phase errors in accelerometer arrays: An analysis based on collocated sensors and FEM     

《Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering》2015

The error properties of arrays of accelerometers were studied on the basis of systematic experiments and analysis of the differences in the recordings of collocated sensors. Four identical tri-axial force-balance accelerometers with common recordings and time stamping, were set at symmetrical positions on a prototype oscillator, a T-type inverted pendulum, and were subject to controlled excitations. Based on Finite Element Modeling (FEM) the response of the oscillator was modeled and there were identified time series of acceleration of different collocated sensors predicted to be identical (“comparable”). The differences of the corresponding “comparable” measurement time series, which are functions only of noise, were found important, indicating that the accelerometer arrays are characterized by significant dynamic noise and not by low-amplitude Gaussian noise, as is widely assumed.Further analysis of time series of accelerometer noise was based on spectral analysis techniques in the frequency and the time domain and on coherence, on filtering and on cross-correlation, as well as on examination of the impact of noise in the drift (errors computation of displacements using double numerical integration).The output of this study is that phase noise (jitter, or phase instability) characterizes accelerometers, as in the case with all other array sensors and sensor networks and this is a main source of dynamic noise. The latter becomes significant especially at the level of sampling interval (0.005 sec in our experiments), characterizes strong motions, is not constant and may be regarded as instrument-specific noise. Strategies to overcome this dynamic noise important for the modeling of structural response are discussed.  相似文献   

循环荷载下液化对土层水平往返变形的影响   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3       下载免费PDF全文

孙锐  袁晓铭  李雨润  曹振中  陈龙伟 《地震工程学报》2009,31(1):8-14

采用多工况振动台实验研究液化对土层水平往返变形的影响.以干砂实验为参照,分析孔压增长与土层加速度和土层往返变形之间的关系.结果表明:液化将引起土表加速度显著降低,减小惯性力传递,但同时会引起土层往返剪应变明显增大.对往返变形而言,液化土层往返剪应变就可达到1%～5%的大变形状态,且液化土层往返剪应变沿深度呈下大上小分布.土层中孔压比0.4～0.8是往返变形出现放大的敏感段,在孔压比0.8左右而不是在1.0达到最大.作为其结果,土层液化将对刚性上部结构振动起减震作用,但同时增大的往返剪应变也易导致基础和地下结构破坏,特别是对液化层与下部非液化层交界处的构件更敏感.  相似文献   

Towards a new reference ground motion prediction equation for Italy: update of the Sabetta–Pugliese (1996)     

D. Bindi  L. Luzi  F. Pacor  F. Sabetta  M. Massa 《Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering》2009,7(3):591-608

A revised Italian strong motion archive has become available since July 2007, including all the records of the strongest events occurred from 1972 to 2004. It contains the uncorrected and corrected accelerograms and the metadata relevant to seismic events, recording stations and instruments added after a careful revision. The availability of this archive allowed us to perform a first step towards an update of the reference ground motion prediction equations for Italy, which were evaluated by Sabetta and Pugliese in (Bull Seismol Soc Am 77:1491–1513, 1987), for peak ground acceleration and velocity, and subsequently extended to the 5% damped pseudovelocity response spectra in 1996. A subset with the 27 major earthquakes occurred in Italy from 1972 to 2002, in the magnitude range 4.6–6.9, was extracted and 235 good quality waveforms were selected, recorded at distances up to 183 km. The goodness of fit of the Sabetta and Pugliese (Bull Seismol Soc Am 86:337–352, 1996) model was explored using two independent statistical approaches (Spudich et al. Bull Seismol Soc Am 89:1156–1170, 1999 and Scherbaum et al. Bull Seismol Soc Am 94:2164–2185, 2004). The results obtained show that the Sabetta and Pugliese (Bull Seismol Soc Am 77:1491–1513, 1987) does not adequately fit the new strong-motion data set, for its small standard deviation and its non-zero bias. In particular, the most noteworthy result is that the Sabetta and Pugliese (Bull Seismol Soc Am 77:1491–1513, 1987) over-predicts peak ground acceleration and velocity at rock sites. New coefficients for the prediction of horizontal peak ground acceleration, peak ground velocity and acceleration response spectra, adopting the same functional form in Sabetta and Pugliese (Bull Seismol Soc Am 77:1491–1513, 1987), were then evaluated in order to fit the new data set. This paper illustrates the steps made to update the existing ground motion prediction equations for Italy, discusses their limitations and provides the basis for future developments.  相似文献   

Investigation of dynamic behavior of geosynthetic reinforced soil retaining structures under earthquake loads     

Erol Guler  Ali K. Enunlu 《Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering》2009,7(3):737-777

The results of an experimental study conducted on two 1:2 reduced-scale geotextile-reinforced soil retaining walls are presented and discussed. El Centro earthquake and sinusoidal harmonic motion excitations were applied to the 1.9 m tall models. The design parameter investigated was the reinforcement length (L/H = 0.9 in the 1st model and L/H = 0.6 in the 2nd model). The results were analyzed to evaluate the acceleration amplification, strains in the reinforcement layers and facing wall deformation. The test results showed that in both experiments the walls were in fact designed to behave rigidly and almost no residual displacements were observed on the front of the wall. The most important conclusion drawn from the experimental work was that Geosynthetic Reinforced Retaining Structures designed according to the current specifications behave very successfully under earthquake loading conditions.  相似文献   

华东地区地震活动加速指数AI算法应用探讨     

郑建常  冀东普  王鹏  王峰吉  赵金花 《地震》2010,30(3):129-139

应用改进的地震活动加速指数AI算法对华东地区1970年以来M_S≥5.0地震进行了回顾性统计检验。结果表明, AI指数能够量化地给出中强地震前小震活动的相对增强或减弱变化程度; 在小震目录较为完整的情况下, 中强地震震中区及其附近地区震前1年的小震活动与之前三年的活动背景相比, 会出现较明显的“加速”或“减速”现象。  相似文献   

近场强地震动合成方法研究及地震动模拟   总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5  

王国新  史家平 《东北地震研究》2008,24(2):4-10

本文通过对近场强地震动合成方法的研究,采用随机有限断层法合成了沈阳地区近场强地震动,将得到的断层附近加速度时程结果与已有的采用混合有限元法计算结果进行对比。认为这一合成地震动的方法在重大工程选址以及缺乏强震记录地区开展抗震设防工作具有重要意义。  相似文献   

基于多学科物理观测的地震概率预测方法在川滇地区的应用   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1       下载免费PDF全文

王芃  邵志刚  刘琦  魏文薪  尹晓菲 《地球物理学报》2019,62(9):3448-3463

川滇地区是我国地震灾害最为严重的地区之一,地震灾害评估对该地区的防震减灾具有重要意义,概率地震危险性分析是量化地震危险性的有效手段.这一方法要求使用可获得的最佳资料来计算地震的长期发生率.通过对比美国加州地区与我国川滇地区积累的资料发现,目前川滇地区的资料积累水平与加州地区正在使用的第三版加州地震破裂预测模型（UCERF3）的要求还有差距,但已可进行多学科综合地震概率计算.通过收集川滇地区地震地质、大地测量和测震学等资料,计算了川滇菱形块体及周边地区不同震级地震的长期发生率,在此基础上给出了未来30年泊松与非泊松分布下峰值地表加速度超越概率的分布.结果显示,在目标峰值加速度较低时,鲜水河断裂带、安宁河断裂带、则木河断裂带、小江断裂带、红河断裂带和小金河断裂带等川滇菱形块体主要边界带均具有较高的超越概率;在目标峰值加速度较高时,川滇菱形块体东边界的鲜水河断裂带、小江断裂带北段和南段以及莲峰—昭通断裂带仍具有较高的超越概率,但其中安宁河断裂带、则木河断裂带和小江断裂带中段概率相对较低.最后通过将本研究的结果与前人结果对比,讨论了结果异同的原因.  相似文献   

Real-time acceleration monitoring-based rapid earthquake response for ports in Korea     

Chang-Guk Sun  Hyung-Ik Cho  Byung-Sun Jeong 《Marine Georesources & Geotechnology》2018,36(5):564-578

To establish viable earthquake counterplans for ports in Korea, data regarding earthquake motion on the ground and in buildings must be collected using acceleration monitoring systems. Acceleration monitoring-based strategies for port facilities are useful not only for ensuring rapid responses during and after earthquakes but also for regional data collection to assist reliable seismic design. Acceleration monitoring systems were installed at coastal facility sites in target ports, including a soil site to represent the facility and a rock site as a reference. The systematic earthquake alert software was designed to help them in decision-making about a possible seismic hazard and its reporting. The earthquake alert system was composed of two sequential functional software systems sharing an acceleration monitoring database applied to the target ports. The earthquake response software system triggers an alarm based on the peak ground acceleration per second computed from the monitored data. Then, the earthquake hazard estimation software system evaluates possible earthquake-induced site-specific geotechnical hazards linked to the peak ground acceleration. The integrated system was successfully operated and was able to rapidly provide an emergency report containing event records and geotechnical earthquake hazards during the September 2016 Gyeongju earthquake, the largest recorded earthquake in Korea.  相似文献   

Laboratory investigation of pressure gradients induced by plunging breakers     

Adrián Pedrozo-Acuña  Amaia Ruiz de Alegría-Arzaburu  Alec Torres-Freyermuth  Edgar Mendoza  Rodolfo Silva 《Coastal Engineering》2011

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高空急流加速与低层锋生   总被引：27，自引：10，他引：27  

高守亭  陶诗言 《大气科学》1991,15(2):11-22

本文从动力学上找到了低层锋生函数同急流区内纬向平均风加速的关系,指出高空急流加速有利于大气低层锋生,并从天气学的角度给出了高空急流加速同低层大气锋生的环流形态特征。即高空波的动量和热量通量在急流区的辐合,促使高空急流加速,并引起急流入口区上下层之间的质量调整,在急流轴高度以下出现一个反环流,反环流的上升支同其下原有的弱锋前的上滑爬升气流发生耦合,造成上滑气流加强,低层锋面坡度变陡,冷暖对比明显,引起大气低层锋生。  相似文献