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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
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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
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Manolis Plionis Spyros Basilakos 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2002,329(2):L47-L51
Using a sample of 903 APM clusters we investigate whether their dynamical status, as evidenced by the presence of significant substructures, is related to the large-scale structure of the Universe. We find that the cluster dynamical activity is strongly correlated with the tendency of clusters to be aligned with their nearest neighbour and in general with the nearby clusters that belong to the same supercluster. Furthermore, dynamically active clusters are more clustered than the overall cluster population. These are strong indications that clusters develop in a hierarchical fashion by anisotropic merging along the large-scale filaments within which they are embedded. 相似文献
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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
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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
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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
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Manolis Plionis Hrant M. Tovmassian Heinz Andernach † 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2009,395(1):2-10
We revisit the issue of the recent dynamical evolution of clusters of galaxies using a sample of Abell, Corwin & Olowin (ACO) clusters with z < 0.14 , which has been selected such that it does not contain clusters with multiple velocity components nor strongly merging or interacting clusters, as revealed in X-rays. We use as proxies of the cluster dynamical state the projected cluster ellipticity, velocity dispersion and X-ray luminosity. We find indications for a recent dynamical evolution of this cluster population, which however strongly depends on the cluster richness. Poor clusters appear to be undergoing their primary phase of virialization, with their ellipticity increasing with redshift with a rate dε/d z ≃ 2.5 ± 0.4 , while the richest clusters show an ellipticity evolution in the opposite direction (with dε/d z ≃−1.2 ± 0.1 ), which could be due to secondary infall. When taking into account sampling effects due to the magnitude-limited nature of the ACO cluster catalogue we find no significant evolution of the cluster X-ray luminosity, while the velocity dispersion increases with decreasing redshift, independent of the cluster richness, at a rate dσ v /d z ≃−1700 ± 400 km s−1 . 相似文献
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Manolis K. Georgoulis 《Solar physics》2005,228(1-2):5-27
Intermittent magnetohydrodynamical turbulence is most likely at work in the magnetized solar atmosphere. As a result, an array
of scaling and multi-scaling image-processing techniques can be used to measure the expected self-organization of solar magnetic
fields. While these techniques advance our understanding of the physical system at work, it is unclear whether they can be
used to predict solar eruptions, thus obtaining a practical significance for space weather. We address part of this problem
by focusing on solar active regions and by investigating the usefulness of scaling and multi-scaling image-processing techniques
in solar flare prediction. Since solar flares exhibit spatial and temporal intermittency, we suggest that they are the products
of instabilities subject to a critical threshold in a turbulent magnetic configuration. The identification of this threshold
in scaling and multi-scaling spectra would then contribute meaningfully to the prediction of solar flares. We find that the
fractal dimension of solar magnetic fields and their multi-fractal spectrum of generalized correlation dimensions do not have
significant predictive ability. The respective multi-fractal structure functions and their inertial-range scaling exponents,
however, probably provide some statistical distinguishing features between flaring and non-flaring active regions. More importantly,
the temporal evolution of the above scaling exponents in flaring active regions probably shows a distinct behavior starting
a few hours prior to a flare and therefore this temporal behavior may be practically useful in flare prediction. The results
of this study need to be validated by more comprehensive works over a large number of solar active regions. Sufficient statistics
may also establish critical thresholds in the values of the multi-fractal structure functions and/or their scaling exponents
above which a flare may be predicted with a high level of confidence.
Based on the author's contributed talk “Manifestations and Diagnostics of Turbulence in the Solar Atmosphere”, presented at
the Solar Image Processing Workshop II, Annapolis, Maryland, USA, 3–5 November 2004. 相似文献
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