Rock avalanches with a high mobility and kinetic energy pose a potential geological risk to surrounding buildings. Baffles and avalanche walls are effective ways to protect these buildings. However, the primary focus of previous studies has been on baffles or avalanche walls alone, and there have been very few studies investigating the effectiveness of a combination of baffles and avalanche walls as a countermeasure against rock avalanches. In addition, previous studies on lab-scale tests and numerical analyses often did not take the actual topography effects into consideration. In this study we adopted a numerical simulation approach based on an actual project in the town of Zhangmu, Tibet, with the aim to investigate the effect of different configurations of a combined baffle–avalanche wall system on impeding the kinetic energy of rock avalanches. A series of numerical analyses with discrete element methods (DEM) were conducted. First, the effect of three different pile groups on the reduction of the effect of the rock avalanche was studied using the numerical modeling study. Secondly, the influence of the size of the retaining wall on the maximum impact force of the rock avalanche was studied. Finally, a DEM modeling study on the energy dissipation capacity of the baffle–avalanche wall system was conducted. The results demonstrate that an arrangement of different baffle–avalanche wall systems will produce different results in terms of dissipating the energy of rock avalanches: when the wall is long enough to block all rock masses, enhancing baffle density will decrease the maximum impact force exerted on the avalanche wall; however, if the wall is just long enough to protect the target region, reducing baffle density will decrease the maximum impact force exerted on the avalanche wall. The results of this study are significant in terms of providing guidelines for the design of baffle–avalanche wall systems for protection against rock avalanches.
This paper develops a novel model and an algorithm of security region based real and reactive power pricing of power systems.
In the proposed model, the reactive power production cost is represented as the opportunity cost. The static voltage stability
region in the cut set power space (CVSR) and the practical dynamic security region (PDSR) in the injection power space are
used to represent the constraints of voltage stability and transient stability, so that the consideration of this kind of
constraints in the optimization becomes very easy. In the proposed algorithm, a decoupled optimization and iteration method
of active power production cost and reactive power production cost is suggested. According to the K-T optimality conditions,
the prices of active power and reactive power, and the different components corresponding to the concerned security constraints
are derived. The components of spot prices can reflect the influence of different node power injections on each kind of security
constraints, so that through the node price all of the participants in power market can be stimulated to take an active part
in maintaining the system security. An illustrative example on the New England 10-genetator 39-bus System is used to demonstrate
the proposed method.
Supported by the key research project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 50595413) 相似文献
In atomic force microscopy(AFM), high-frequency components consisted in dynamic tip-sample interaction have been recently demonstrated as a promising technique for exploring more extensive material properties. Here we present an exploratory study of high harmonic atomic force microscopy by force-spectroscopy and high harmonic imaging. Since these components are very weak compared to the fundamental response, we firstly designed a high harmonic cantilever by tuning the second order flexural resonance frequency to an integer 6 times of its fundamental mode(i.e. ω_2=6ω_1). Moreover, it is verified that high harmonic can discern extra features than topographies on different samples with amplitude/frequency modulation(AM/FM) dynamic AFM mode. In AM mode, the first resonance amplitude and 6 th harmonic amplitude were discussed. The 6 th harmonic is more sensitive than the first order response. In FM mode, it is noted that the decaying rate of the 6 th harmonic frequency is approximately 6 multiples to the slope of the fundamental frequency shift when the tip approaches to the surface of sample. This non-destructive method was also adopted to investigate the local interlayer coupling and intercalation in the two-dimensional graphene films tentatively. 相似文献