Influence of hydrothermal venting on water column properties in the crater of the Kolumbo submarine volcano,Santorini volcanic field (Greece)     

Maria E. Christopoulou  Theo J. Mertzimekis  Paraskevi Nomikou  Dimitrios Papanikolaou  Steven Carey  Manolis Mandalakis 《Geo-Marine Letters》2016,36(1):15-24

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Earthquake simulator testing of pounding between adjacent buildings     

Manolis Papadrakakis  Harris P. Mouzakis 《地震工程与结构动力学》1995,24(6):811-834

Two-storey-building frames have been designed and built in an effort to investigate the pounding phenomenon of adjacent buildings during earthquakes. Static tests have been first performed to determine the static characteristics and the support conditions of the test structures. Sinusoidal and random acceleration signal tests have been subsequently performed to determine the dynamic characteristics of the test structures. Two series of tests were carried out using the shaking table simulator. In the first case, the dynamic response has been recorded without pounding, while in the second case, the test structures have been placed with zero-gap separation and pounding was induced. Input energy time histories were correlated and compared with and without pounding. The experimental results were compared with analytical ones based on a formulation of the contact impact problem by the Lagrange multiplier method. Good agreement between the experimental and the analytical results was achieved.  相似文献   

Scattering of seismic waves by cracks in multi-layered geological regions: II. Numerical results     

Petia S. Dineva  George D. Manolis 《Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering》2001,21(7)

The mechanical model for plane strain, time-harmonic seismic wave propagation problems in cracked, multi-layered geological regions with surface topography and non-parallel interfaces was described in the first part of this work. Here, this model is used to investigate the response of such a region to the presence of traveling elastic waves generated by a seismic source. The computational methodology that was developed in the first part is based on a combination of both the regular (displacement-based) and the hypersingular (traction-based) Boundary Integral Equation Method (BIEM). First, the accuracy and convergence characteristics of this hybrid BIEM are studied. Then, a series of problems involving four different configurations of a reference geological deposit with both interface and internal cracks are solved, for a loading that is due to a seismically-induced pressure wave propagating upwards from the underlying rigid half-plane. The purpose of the numerical study is to investigate the influence of various key parameters of the problem, such as frequency and incidence angle of the incoming wave, size of the surface relief, location and size of the buried cracks, interaction effects between cracks and finally the presence of layers, on both the scattered displacement field and the stress concentration field.  相似文献   

Harmonic wave propagation through viscoelastic heterogeneous media exhibiting mild stochasticity - I. Fundamental solutions     

G.D. Manolis  R.P. Shaw 《Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering》1996,15(2):119

This work examines the propagation of time harmonic, horizontally polarized shear waves through a naturally occurring heterogeneous medium that exhibits viscous behaviour as well as random fluctuations of its elastic modulus about a mean value. As a first step, the governing equation, which is a heterogeneous Helmholtz equation, is solved using algebraic transformations and the relevant Green's function is obtained for two sets of boundary conditions, one corresponding to a finite depth layer and the other to an infinite layer. Viscous material behaviour is introduced by considering the depth-dependent elastic modulus to be a complex quantity. Subsequently, material stochasticity in the medium is handled through the perturbation approach by assuming that the elastic modulus has a small random fluctuation about its mean value. The final results are closed-form expressions for the mean value and covariance matrix of both the wave speed profile in the medium and the corresponding Green's function. In Part II, (Soil Dynam. Earth. Engng, 1996,15, 129-39), two examples concerning seismic wave propagation in soft topsoil and in sandstone serve to illustrate the methodology and comparisons are made with Monte Carlo simulations.  相似文献   

Modelling the X-ray cluster dipole and cluster contribution to the soft X-ray background     

V.Kolokotronis  M.Plionis  P.Coles  S.Borgani 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》1998,295(1):19-32

We investigate the sampling and dipole convergence properties of flux-limited samples of mock X-ray clusters in relation to their underlying 'parent' cluster distribution. To this purpose, we resort to numerical simulations of the cluster distribution and extract samples resembling the main observational features of X-ray selected cluster samples. The flux-limited samples, being quite sparse, underestimate the amplitude of the 'parent' cluster dipole by ≈ 15 per cent on average for Local Group-like observers. However, the general shapes of their dipole amplitude profiles are in relatively good agreement. We also calculate the expected contribution of clusters, selected according to the relevant criteria, to the soft (i.e. 0.1–2.4 keV) extragalactic X-ray background (XRB), using the ESO Key Project X-ray luminosity function, assuming a flat universe with vanishing cosmological constant. We obtain a value of about 10 per cent of the observed XRB flux.  相似文献   

The Needles in the Haystack Survey: searching for X-ray-selected normal galaxies     

A. E. Georgakakis  I. Georgantopoulos  S. Basilakos  M. Plionis  V. Kolokotronis 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2004,354(1):123-126

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A Potential Mitigation Measure for the Seismic Distress of the Circuit Wall at the Acropolis of Athens     

Katsirakis  Manolis  Tsompanakis  Yiannis  Psarropoulos  Prodromos N. 《Geotechnical and Geological Engineering》2022,40(6):3325-3341

Geotechnical and Geological Engineering - The seismic design of new retaining structures is usually performed following modern seismic norms. Nonetheless, there are various monumental retaining...  相似文献   

The Serendipitous XMM–Newton Cluster Athens Survey (SEXCLAS): sample selection and the cluster log N–log S     

V. Kolokotronis  A. Georgakakis  S. Basilakos  S. Kitsionas  M. Plionis  I. Georgantopoulos  T. Gaga 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,366(1):163-170

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Searching for cluster substructure using APM and ROSAT data     

V. Kolokotronis  S. Basilakos  M. Plionis  I. Georgantopoulos 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2001,320(1):49-60

We present a detailed study of the morphological features of 22 rich galaxy clusters. Our sample is constructed from a cross-correlation of optical     data with X-ray (0.1–2.4 keV) ROSAT pointed observations. We systematically compare cluster images and morphological parameters in an attempt to reliably identify possible substructure in both optical and the X-ray images. To this end, we compute various moments of the optical and X-ray surface-brightness distribution such as the ellipticities, centre-of-mass shifts and ellipsoidal orientations. We assess the significance of our results using Monte Carlo simulations. We find significant correlations between the optical and X-ray morphological parameters, indicating that in both parts of the spectrum it is possible to identify correctly the dynamical state of a cluster. Most of our clusters (17/22) have a good one-to-one correspondence between the optical and the X-ray images, and about 10 appear to have strong indications of substructure. This corresponds to a minimum percentage of order ∼45 per cent, which is in very good accordance with other similar analyses. Finally, five out of 22 systems (∼22 per cent) seem to have distinct subclumps in the optical which are not verified in the X-ray images, and thus are suspect of being due to optical projection effects. These results will serve as a useful guide in interpreting subsequent analyses of large optical cluster catalogues.  相似文献   

Performance of pile-restrained flexible floating breakwaters     

Ioanna Diamantoulaki  Demos C. Angelides  George D. Manolis 《Applied Ocean Research》2008,30(4):243-255

The overall performance of pile-restrained flexible floating breakwaters is investigated under the action of linear monochromatic incident waves in the frequency domain. The aforementioned floating breakwaters undergo only vertical structural deflections along their length and are held in place by means of vertical piles. The total number of degrees of freedom equals the six conventional body modes, when the breakwater moves as a rigid body, plus the extra bending modes. These bending modes are introduced to represent the structural deflections of the floating breakwater and are described by the Bernoulli–Euler flexible beam equation. The number of bending modes introduced is determined through an appropriate iterative procedure. The hydrostatic coefficients corresponding to the bending modes are also derived. The numerical analysis of the flexible floating breakwaters is based on a three-dimensional hydrodynamic formulation of the floating body. A parametric study is carried out for a wide range of structural stiffness parameters and wave headings, to investigate their effect on the performance of flexible floating breakwaters. Moreover, this performance is compared with that of the corresponding pile-restrained rigid floating breakwater. Results indicated that the degree of structural stiffness and the wave heading strongly affect the performance of flexible floating breakwaters. The existence of an “optimum” value of structural stiffness is demonstrated for the entire wave frequency range.  相似文献