Experimental study on the settlement of marine deposits of Anzali under cyclic loading by laminar box apparatus     

Hadi Ahmadi  Abolfazl Eslami  Mahyar Arabani 《Marine Georesources & Geotechnology》2017,35(3):330-338

The central Alborz mountain range, located in northern Iran, neighboring the Caspian Sea and where the two Persia and Eurasia plates meet, is known as a seismologically active area. In this regard, investigation of the behavior of saturated sand deposits located in this area may be of particular interest. Saturated sand deposits are subjected to instabilities owing to liquefaction or volume change due to earthquake shakings. A particular type of saturated sand deposits is Anzali sand which is abundant in Anzali port and other cities located in this area in northern Iran. This type of sand is a representative for most sands found in this area, i.e., the southern coastal line of Caspian Sea. This research is solely focused on the volume change behavior of marine deposits of Anzali area, often characterized as Anzali sand, in terms of the settlement of a model footing located on the surface of the sand by the aid of a transparent laminar shear box apparatus. Effects of a number of factors such as the frequency of the cyclic loading, the initial density of the sand, and the sample preparation method have been investigated. Observations indicated that the density index and the frequency of loading which are proportional to the energy of an earthquake have direct effects on the accumulation and amount of the final settlement of Anzali sand.  相似文献   

Wetland cover change detection using multi-temporal remotely sensed data     

Saeed Ojaghi  Farshid Farnood Ahmadi  Hamid Ebadi  Raechel Bianchetti 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2017,10(21):470

Lake Urmia, located in northwest Iran, contains a number of wetlands significantly affecting the environmental, social, and economic conditions of the region. The ecological condition of Lake Urmia has degraded during the past decade, due to climate change, human activities, and unsustainable management. The poor condition of the lake has also affected the surrounding wetlands. This study analyzes the land cover change of one of the wetlands in the southern part of Lake Urmia, known as Ghara-Gheshlagh wetland, in the period 1989–2015 using post-classification change detection and machine learning image classification. For this analysis, three Landsat images, acquired in 1989 (TM), 2001 (TM), and 2015 (Landsat-8), were used for the classification and change detection. Support vector machine learning algorithm, a supervised learning method, is employed, and images are classified into four main land cover classes namely “water,” ”barren,” “salty land,” and “agriculture and grassland.” Change detection was carried out for pairs of years 1989 to 2001 and 2001 until 2015. The results of this classification show that there is a sharp increase in the area of salt-saturated land as well as a decrease in the area of water resources. Overall classification accuracy obtained were high for the individual years: 1989 (91.48%), 2001 (90.63%), and 2015 (88.6%). Also, the Kappa coefficients for individual maps were high: 1989 (0.89), 2001 (0.8742), and 2015 (0.84). After that, the land cover change map of the study area is obtained between 1989 to 2001 and then 2001 to 2015. The results of this analysis suggest that more efforts should be taken to effectively manage water resources in the region and point to potential locations for focused management actions within the wetland area.  相似文献   

Kinematic Evolution Model of Fault-Related Anticline based on the Study of the Striated Pebbles of the Related Growth-Strata: A Case Study of the Es Satah Anticline in Southern Tunisian Atlas,Tunisia     

Khalfi  C.  Ahmadi  R.  Trigui  H.  Ouali  J.  Mercier  E. 《Geotectonics》2019,53(3):419-432

Geotectonics - Through several stations on the forelimb of the Es Satah anticline belonging to Gafsa basin part of the southern Tunisian Atlas, an analysis of the striations encountered on the...  相似文献   

Stability of frames subjected to a white noise base excitation     

Samir Abdel-Rahman  Goodarz Ahmadi 《Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering》1989,8(4):166-175

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Seismic isolation of buildings with sliding concave foundation (SCF)   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

M. Hamidi  M. H. El Naggar  A. Vafai  G. Ahmadi 《地震工程与结构动力学》2003,32(1):15-29

In this paper, a new base isolation system, namely the sliding concave foundation (SCF), is introduced and the behaviour of the buildings using such a system is theoretically investigated. A building supported on the new system behaves like a compound pendulum during seismic excitation. The pendulum behaviour accompanied by the large radius of foundation curvature shifts the fundamental period of the system to a high value (e.g. more than 8sec), in a frequency range where none of the previously recorded earthquakes had considerable energy. This results in a large decrease in the structural responses. Since small friction forces are essential on the contact surfaces, PTFE sheets can be used as sliding surfaces. Although the pure frictional sliding systems have the same efficiency as the SCF, in reducing the responses of the superstructure, the main advantage of the new system is a significant decrease in sliding displacement. The performance of the SCF subjected to a number of harmonic and non‐harmonic base excitations is studied and its ability to reduce the structural responses is examined. Some numerical examples are solved for a single‐degree‐of‐freedom (SDOF) structure and the responses are compared with the responses of the same SDOF structure on a fixed base or a pure frictional sliding support system. The comparisons confirm the effectiveness of the new system. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

A comparative study of performances of various base isolation systems,part II: Sensitivity analysis     

Lin Su  Goodarz Ahmadi  Iradj G. Tadjbakhsh 《地震工程与结构动力学》1990,19(1):21-33

A series of numerical experiments on the performance of different base isolation systems for a non-uniform shear beam structure is carried out. Several base isolation systems are considered and the peak relative displacements and the maximum absolute accelerations of the base-isolated structure and its base raft under a variety of conditions are evaluated. Several sensitivity analyses for variations in properties of the base isolator and the structure are carried out. A number of different earthquake excitations are also used in the study. The results show that performances of the base isolation systems are not sensitive to small variations in their natural period, damping or friction coefficient. The presence of a frictional element in the isolators reduces their sensitivity to severe variations in frequency content and amplitude of the ground acceleration. In particular, the resilient-friction base isolators with or without sliding upper plate perform reasonably well under a variety of loading conditions. The rubber bearing type, however, leads to the lowest peak transmitted accelerations for moderate intensity earthquakes.  相似文献   

Stiffness identification of two- and three-dimensional frames     

Morteza A. M. Torkamani  Ahmad K. Ahmadi 《地震工程与结构动力学》1988,16(8):1157-1176

Four widely used structural system identification methods are presented. Based on Bayesian estimation theory, two new formulae and their derivations are shown. Time domain responses of two frames when subjected to the ground motion of the El Centro earthquake are computed then transformed to the frequency domain. Frequencies and mode shapes of frames are extracted from Fourier spectra. Using these frequencies and mode shapes, a parametric study is conducted, and the system identification methods are compared and discussed. The importance of a prior analytical model on the rate of convergence of the revised parameters is investigated. Recommendations are given regarding the feasibility of each method for more accurate estimation. A model suitable for parameter identification of three-dimensional frames is presented. This model, with different identification methods, is used to estimate the parameters of a two-storey frame.  相似文献   

A comparative study of performances of various base isolation systems,part I: Shear beam structures     

Lin Su  Goodarz Ahmadi  Iradj G. Tadjbakhsh 《地震工程与结构动力学》1989,18(1):11-32

A comparative study of performances of different base isolators for shear beam type structures is carried out. Several leading base isolation systems, including the laminated rubber bearing with and without lead plug, the resilient-friction base isolator with and without sliding upper plate, and the EDF system are considered. Displacement and acceleration response spectra for a shear beam structure subject to the accelerograms of the N00W component of El Centro 1940 and the N90W component of Mexico City 1985 earthquakes and their magnified forms are evaluated. A series of parametric studies is carried out and advantages and disadvantages of various base isolation systems are identified. Comparisons of the results with the response spectra of a fixed-base structure show that the base isolation systems are, in general, highly effective in reducing the peak acceleration transmitted to the superstructure. Thus, the deflections and stresses generated in a base-isolated structure are significantly lower than those of a fixed-base one. Furthermore, the results of the study also show that the friction-type base isolators are less sensitive to severe variations in frequency content and amplitude of the ground acceleration.  相似文献   

Response of base-isolated buildings to random excitations described by the Clough-Penzien spectral model     

B. C. Lin  I. G. Tadjbakhsh  A. S. Papageorgiou  G. Ahmadi 《地震工程与结构动力学》1989,18(1):49-62

The stationary response of base-isolated buildings subjected to earthquake excitation is studied. The frequency content of earthquake input is described by the Clough-Penzien spectral model. The response parameters of interest are (1) the root-mean-square (RMS) displacement σ_x of the basement relative to the foundation (i.e. shear deformation of the isolation system) and (2) the ratio (σ_a/σ_a0) of the RMS value of the absolute acceleration at the roof of the isolated structure over the corresponding value when the isolation system is locked. The variation of these response parameters with the effective frequency f₀ of the base-isolated structure is investigated. As input, earthquakes with moment magnitudes M = 7-3 and M = 6-0 are considered. The acceleration spectra corresponding to these two earthquake sizes have pronouncedly different frequency content over the frequency range 0–1-1–0 Hz which is of primary importance for base-isolated structures. An important conclusion that comes from these analyses is that confidence in the effectiveness of a base-isolated system should be based primarily on its capacity to absorb/dissipate energy and less on its influence in shifting the fundamental period of the structure out of the range of dominant earthquake energy.  相似文献   

Performance of a high damping rubber bearing base isolation system for a shear beam structure     

Yu Chen  Goodarz Ahmadi 《地震工程与结构动力学》1994,23(7):729-744

Performance of High Damping Laminated Rubber Bearing (HD-LRB) base isolation system in protecting the structure and the structural content is studied. A non-uniform shear beam structural model is considered, and the generalized non-stationary Kanai–Tajimi model for the El Centro 1940 earthquake is used as excitation. The technique of equivalent linearization is utilized and the mean-square response statistics of secondary systems and primary structure are evaluated. Statistically estimated peak responses of the secondary system and the primary structure are evaluated and the results are compared with the response spectra for the actual earthquake accelerogram. Comparison of the stochastic responses for base-isolated structures with the HD-LRB and the linear Laminated Rubber Bearing (LRB) and the fixed-base structure is also carried out. It is shown that the HD-LRB system significantly reduces the mean-square, as well as the peak acceleration and deflection responses without generating large base displacements. Furthermore, the non-linear behaviour of the HD-LRB somewhat improves the performance of the bearing in reducing the peak responses of the secondary system and the primary structure when compared with the linear LRB model.  相似文献