Modeling, synthetics and engineering applications of strong earthquake wave motion     

Masanobu Shinozuka  George Deodatis  Ruichong Zhang  Apostolos S. Papageorgiou 《Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering》1999,18(3):182

State of the art in modeling, synthetics, statistical estimation, and engineering applications of strong ground motion is reported in this paper. In particular, models for earthquake wave motion are presented, in which uncertainties both in the earth medium and the seismic source are taken into consideration. These models can be used to synthesize realistic strong earthquake ground motion, specifically near-field ground motion which is quite often not well recorded in real earthquakes. Statistical estimation techniques are also presented so that the characteristics of spatially-correlated earthquake motion can be captured and consequently used in investigating the seismic response of such large scale structures as pipelines and long-span bridges. Finally, applications of synthesized strong ground motion in a variety of engineering fields are provided. Numerical examples are shown for illustration.  相似文献   

Meteoroid streams at Mars: possibilities and implications     

Apostolos A. Christou  Kevin Beurle 《Planetary and Space Science》1999,47(12):643-1485

In order to assess the possibility of meteoroid streams detectable from the surface of Mars as meteor showers we have derived minimum distances and associated velocities for a large sample of small body orbits relative to the orbits of Mars and the Earth. The population ratio for objects approaching to within 0.2 AU of these two planets is found to be approximately 2:1. The smaller relative velocities in the case of Mars appears to be the main impediment to the detection of meteors in the upper atmosphere of that planet. We identify five bodies, including the unusual object (5335) Damocles and periodic comet 1P/Halley, with relative orbital parameters most suitable to produce prominent meteor showers. We identify specific epochs at which showers related to these bodies are expected to occur. An overview of possible detection methods taking into account the unique characteristics of the Martian environment is presented. We pay particular attention on the effects of such streams on the dust rings believed to be present around Mars.  相似文献   

Accidental eccentricity in symmetric buildings due to wave passage effects arising from near‐fault pulse‐like ground motions          下载免费PDF全文

Yenan Cao  George P. Mavroeidis  Kristel C. Meza‐Fajardo  Apostolos S. Papageorgiou 《地震工程与结构动力学》2017,46(13):2185-2207

This article investigates the characteristics of the accidental eccentricity in symmetric buildings due to torsional response arising from wave passage effects in the near‐fault region. The soil–foundation–structure system is modeled as a symmetric cylinder placed on a rigid circular foundation supported on an elastic halfspace and subjected to obliquely incident plane SH waves simulating the action of near‐fault pulse‐like ground motions. The translational response is computed assuming that the superstructure behaves as a shear beam under the action of translational and rocking base excitations, whereas the torsional response is calculated using the mathematical formulation proposed in a previous study. A broad range of properties of the soil–foundation–structure system and ground motion input are considered in the analysis, thus facilitating a detailed parametric investigation of the structural response. It is demonstrated that the normalized accidental eccentricity is most sensitive to the pulse period (T_P) of the near‐fault ground motions and to the uncoupled torsional‐to‐translational fundamental frequency ratio (Ω) of the structure. Furthermore, the normalized accidental eccentricities due to simplified pulse‐like and broadband ground motions in the near‐fault region are computed and compared against each other. The results show that the normalized accidental eccentricity due to the broadband ground motion is well approximated by the simplified pulse for longer period buildings, while it is underestimated for shorter period buildings. For symmetric buildings with values of Ω commonly used in design practice, the normalized accidental eccentricity due to wave passage effects is less than the typical code‐prescribed value of 5%, except for buildings with very large foundation radius. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献