Seismic behavior of steel buildings with out‐of‐plumb          下载免费PDF全文

Ali A. Rad  Gregory A. MacRae  Trevor Z. Yeow  Desmond K. Bull 《地震工程与结构动力学》2015,44(14):2575-2588

A structure that has a permanent offset from a true vertical line is commonly referred to as being ‘out‐of‐plumb’. Out‐of‐plumb may result from construction tolerances or post‐earthquake permanent deformations in steel buildings. This paper quantifies the displacements of buildings with out‐of‐plumb in subsequent seismic events by means of inelastic dynamic time history analysis. Structures considered have different structural heights, force design reduction factors (R), and target inter‐story drifts. It is shown that buildings with greater out of plumb and force design reduction factor have larger normalized peak inter‐story drift ratio and ratio of residual‐to‐peak drift. Also, the ratio of residual‐to‐peak drift was not strongly dependent on structural height or design drift. A design procedure and example provided, based on the results obtained, show how peak and residual inter‐story drift ratio can be estimated. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Non‐convex compressed sensing with frequency mask for seismic data reconstruction and denoising     

Ali Gholami 《Geophysical Prospecting》2014,62(6):1389-1405

Compressed Sensing has recently proved itself as a successful tool to help address the challenges of acquisition and processing seismic data sets. Compressed sensing shows that the information contained in sparse signals can be recovered accurately from a small number of linear measurements using a sparsity‐promoting regularization. This paper investigates two aspects of compressed sensing in seismic exploration: (i) using a general non‐convex regularizer instead of the conventional one‐norm minimization for sparsity promotion and (ii) using a frequency mask to additionally subsample the acquired traces in the frequency‐space () domain. The proposed non‐convex regularizer has better sparse recovery performance compared with one‐norm minimization and the additional frequency mask allows us to incorporate a priori information about the events contained in the wavefields into the reconstruction. For example, (i) seismic data are band‐limited; therefore one can use only a partial set of frequency coefficients in the range of reflections band, where the signal‐to‐noise ratio is high and spatial aliasing is low, to reconstruct the original wavefield, and (ii) low‐frequency characteristics of the coherent ground rolls allow direct elimination of them during reconstruction by disregarding the corresponding frequency coefficients (usually bellow 10 Hz) via a frequency mask. The results of this paper show that some challenges of reconstruction and denoising in seismic exploration can be addressed under a unified formulation. It is illustrated numerically that the compressed sensing performance for seismic data interpolation is improved significantly when an additional coherent subsampling is performed in the domain compared with the domain case. Numerical experiments from both simulated and real field data are included to illustrate the effectiveness of the presented method.  相似文献   

Anisotropic permeability in fractured reservoirs from frequency‐dependent seismic Amplitude Versus Angle and Azimuth data     

Aamir Ali  Morten Jakobsen 《Geophysical Prospecting》2014,62(2):293-314

Attempts have previously been made to predict anisotropic permeability in fractured reservoirs from seismic Amplitude Versus Angle and Azimuth data on the basis of a consistent permeability‐stiffness model and the anisotropic Gassmann relations of Brown and Korringa. However, these attempts were not very successful, mainly because the effective stiffness tensor of a fractured porous medium under saturated (drained) conditions is much less sensitive to the aperture of the fractures than the corresponding permeability tensor. We here show that one can obtain information about the fracture aperture as well as the fracture density and orientation (which determines the effective permeability) from frequency‐dependent seismic Amplitude Versus Angle and Azimuth data. Our workflow is based on a unified stiffness‐permeability model, which takes into account seismic attenuation by wave‐induced fluid flow. Synthetic seismic Amplitude Versus Angle and Azimuth data are generated by using a combination of a dynamic effective medium theory with Rüger's approximations for PP reflection coefficients in Horizontally Transversely Isotropic media. A Monte Carlo method is used to perform a Bayesian inversion of these synthetic seismic Amplitude Versus Angle and Azimuth data with respect to the parameters of the fractures. An effective permeability model is then used to construct the corresponding probability density functions for the different components of the effective permeability constants. The results suggest that an improved characterization of fractured reservoirs can indeed be obtained from frequency‐dependent seismic Amplitude Versus Angle and Azimuth data, provided that a dynamic effective medium model is used in the inversion process and a priori information about the fracture length is available.  相似文献   

Inelastic displacement ratios for soil–structure systems allowed to uplift          下载免费PDF全文

Mohammad Ali Ghannad  Amir Hossein Jafarieh 《地震工程与结构动力学》2014,43(9):1401-1421

The simultaneous effects of soil–structure interaction, foundation uplift and inelastic behavior of the superstructure on total displacement response of soil–structure systems are investigated. The superstructure is modeled as an equivalent single‐degree‐of‐freedom system with bilinear behavior mounted on a rigid foundation resting on distributed tensionless Winkler springs and dampers. It is well known that the behavior of soil–structure systems can be well described using a limited number of nondimensional parameters. Here, by introducing two new parameters, the concept is extended to inelastic soil–structure systems in which the foundation is allowed to uplift. An extensive parametric study is conducted for a wide range of the key parameters through nonlinear time history analyses. It is shown that while uplifting soil–structure systems experience excessive displacements, in comparison with systems that are not allowed to uplift, ductility demand in the superstructure generally decreases owing to foundation uplift. A new inelastic displacement ratio (IDR) is proposed in conjunction with a nonlinear static analysis of uplifting soil–structure systems. Simplified expressions are also provided to estimate the proposed IDR. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Estimating daily pan evaporation using artificial neural network in a semi-arid environment   总被引：3，自引：1，他引：2  

Ali Rahimikhoob 《Theoretical and Applied Climatology》2009,98(1-2):101-105

The objective of this study was to test an artificial neural network (ANN) for estimating the evaporation from pan (E _Pan) as a function of air temperature data in the Safiabad Agricultural Research Center (SARC) located in Khuzestan plain in the southwest of Iran. The ANNs (multilayer perceptron type) were trained to estimate E _Pan as a function of the maximum and minimum air temperature and extraterrestrial radiation. The data used in the network training were obtained from a historical series (1996–2001) of daily climatic data collected in weather station of SARC. The empirical Hargreaves equation (HG) is also considered for the comparison. The HG equation calibrated for converting grass evapotranspiration to open water evaporation by applying the same data used for neural network training. Two historical series (2002–2003) were utilized to test the network and for comparison between the ANN and calibrated Hargreaves method. The results show that both empirical and neural network methods provided closer agreement with the measured values (R ²?>?0.88 and RMSE?<?1.2 mm day^?1), but the ANN method gave better estimates than the calibrated Hargreaves method.  相似文献   

Erratum to: Spring rainfall prediction based on remote linkage controlling using adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS)     

Gholam Abbas Fallah-Ghalhary  Majid Habibi-Nokhandan  Mohammad Mousavi-Baygi  Javad Khoshhal  Akbar Shaemi Barzoki 《Theoretical and Applied Climatology》2010,101(1-2):235-235

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Site-specific probabilistic seismic hazard analysis for northern part of the Qeshm Island,Iran     

Ali Kavand  Hamid Alielahi 《Natural Hazards》2017,88(2):919-946

This paper presents results of a site-specific probabilistic seismic hazard analysis for northern part of the Qeshm Island, one the most seismic prone areas of Iran. Seismotectonic and seismicity properties of seismic sources in the study area were characterized and used for evaluation of various strong ground motion parameters implementing the classical Cornell’s PSHA approach. The results show that peak rock accelerations for 475-year return period are 0.4 and 0.27 g, respectively, for 84th and 50th percentiles while being about 0.37 and 0.61 g for 2475-year return period. These values are slightly smaller than those read from national seismic zonation maps which can be attributed to the considered conservatism for development of such design maps. In order to incorporate local site conditions, a series of dynamic site response analyses based on the equivalent linear approach were also employed. The results indicate that the presence of soft subsurface deposits at the site significantly alters the fundamental characteristics of the response spectra. The obtained median (50th percentile) peak ground accelerations for 975-year return period range between 0.49 and 0.54 g at different locations in the study site showing minor amplifications relative to their corresponding bedrock acceleration of 0.48 g. Finally, the obtained site-specific spectrum was compared with the standard spectrum mandated by the design codes. In this regard, the agreement was found to be reasonable at period ranges shorter than about 0.5 s, while the differences were more obvious at longer periods. This reveals the need for implementation of site-specific design spectrum to avoid underestimation or overestimation of seismic forces for designing critically important structures especially when softer deposits are encountered.  相似文献   

Validation of Hyperbolic Model by the Results of Triaxial and Direct Shear Tests of Municipal Solid Waste     

Mohsen Asadi  Nader Shariatmadari  Mehran Karimpour-Fard  Ali Noorzad 《Geotechnical and Geological Engineering》2017,35(5):2003-2015

The increasing demand of engineering landfills requires that designers propose a framework for landfill design, construction, repair and maintenance. As municipal solid waste (MSW) is a major part of a landfill, the analysis should consider MSW mechanical behavior using a constitutive model. To investigate this, 18 direct shear (DS) and triaxial (TX) tests were conducted on MSW samples with different fiber contents. Different shearing mechanisms lead to understand effects of fibers on stress–strain response. Based on obtained results the hyperbolic model Duncan and Chang (J Soil Mech Found Div 96(5):1629–1653, 1970) has been employed to simulate the TX results indicating the ability of the model to predict stress–strain behavior of MSW. This model could also be employed to the DS test results with some assumptions. The model can capture DS stress–strain response well whereas for TX tests the predictions were just enough. The experimental results and two sets of proposed MSW parameters of hyperbolic model have been compared and discussed.  相似文献   

Experimental study on the unconfined compressive strength of carbon fiber reinforced clay soil     

Lei Gao  Qiuyue Zhou  Xiangjuan Yu  Kexiong Wu  Ali H Mahfouz 《Marine Georesources & Geotechnology》2017,35(1):143-148

To study the effect and mechanism of carbon fiber reinforced clay, a series of unconfined compression tests for clay reinforced with carbon fiber have been performed under the conditions of controlled water content and dry density. The carbon fiber is mixed into soil with the quality percentage of 0.01, 0.02, 0.03, 0.05, 0.1, 0.15, 0.25, 0.35, and 0.5%, then a certain quality of water was added in the soil to achieve the optimum soil water content. Ten groups of samples were tested by the unconfined compression experiment. The results showed that the incorporation of carbon fiber elements can effectively improve the unconfined compressive strength and brittle failure mode of soil. The soil is strengthened at the beginning and then weakened with the increased incorporation of carbon fiber, the effect is especially significant when the mix percentage becomes 0.1%. The interaction at the interface between carbon fiber surface and soil matrix is analyzed by using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). It is found that the enhancement mechanisms of carbon fiber reinforced soil are one-dimensional reinforcement of a single carbon fiber thread and three-dimensional reinforcement caused by fiber network respectively.  相似文献   

Pb(II) Adsorption Onto a Magnetic Composite of Activated Carbon and Superparamagnetic Fe3O4 Nanoparticles: Experimental and Modeling Study          下载免费PDF全文

Babak Kakavandi  Roshanak R. Kalantary  Ahmad J. Jafari  Simin Nasseri  Ahmad Ameri  Ali Esrafili  Ali Azari 《洁净——土壤、空气、水》2015,43(8):1157-1166

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