Rare Earths, Trace Element Characteristics of High-Mg Volcanic Rocks of Yixian Formation in Sihetun West Liaoning Province and Its Apocalypse

The high-Mg volcanic rocks of the Yixian Formation in the Sihetun area have the obvious characteristics of mantle-derived lava in rare earth, trace element characteristics with high Mg# (62～70) and high content of compatible elements. In the meantime, the volcanic rocks also have the obvious characteristics of Crust-source material in rare earth, trace element characteristics with high ∑REE (158.78×10-6～359.66×10-6), high (La/Yb)N (14.61～29.60), high La/Nb(2.37～7.52) and high Ba/Nb(67.58～205.96), obvious positive anomaly of Pb and negative anomaly of Nb, Ta in trace element spider-gram. In Sr-Nd-Pb isotope the (87Sr/86Sr)i ratio is higher than 0.706 and the εNd(t) ratio is from -3.4 to -13, both reflect enriched Mantle characteristics. The characteristics above of the volcanic rocks combined with the content of Sr, Ba, Y, Yb and the ratio of Sr/Y show that the volcanic rocks have the property of the Sanukite rocks in Setouchi Japan beside subduction zone, and illuminate that the Sanukite rocks can be formed not only in island-arc near subduction zone but also in intro-plate. The analysis indicates that the high-Mg volcanic rocks in the Sihetun area result from the collective function of mantle-derived lava and crust-source materials. The result illuminates that the West Liaoning region is very special in tectonic geochemical background in Cretaceous in East China, and is an ideal region for us to further study the characteristics of magmatic activity as well as the process of Crust-Mantle interaction in Eastern China.     

Microplane Model M5 with Kinematic and Static Constraints for Concrete Fracture and Anelasticity. I: Theory

Presented is a new microplane model for concrete, labeled M5, which improves the representation of tensile cohesive fracture by eliminating spurious excessive lateral strains and stress locking for far postpeak tensile strains. To achieve improvement, a kinematically constrained microplane system simulating hardening nonlinear behavior (nearly identical to previous Model M4 stripped of tensile softening) is coupled in series with a statically constrained microplane system simulating solely the cohesive tensile fracture. This coupling is made possible by developing a new iterative algorithm and by proving the conditions of its convergence. The special aspect of this algorithm (contrasting with the classical return mapping algorithm for hardening plasticity) is that the cohesive softening stiffness matrix (which is not positive definite) is used as the predictor and the hardening stiffness matrix as the corrector. The softening cohesive stiffness for fracturing is related to the fracture energy of concrete and the effective crack spacing. The postpeak softening slopes on the microplanes can be adjusted according to the element size in the sense of the crack band model. Finally, an incremental thermodynamic potential for the coupling of statically and kinematically constrained microplane systems is formulated. The data fitting and experimental calibration for tensile strain softening are relegated to a subsequent paper in this issue, while all the nonlinear triaxial response in compression remains the same as for Model M4.     

Identification of Parametric Variations of Structures Based on Least Squares Estimation and Adaptive Tracking Technique

An important objective of health monitoring systems for civil infrastructures is to identify the state of the structure and to detect the damage when it occurs. System identification and damage detection, based on measured vibration data, have received considerable attention recently. Frequently, the damage of a structure may be reflected by a change of some parameters in structural elements, such as a degradation of the stiffness. Hence it is important to develop data analysis techniques that are capable of detecting the parametric changes of structural elements during a severe event, such as the earthquake. In this paper, we propose a new adaptive tracking technique, based on the least-squares estimation approach, to identify the time-varying structural parameters. In particular, the new technique proposed is capable of tracking the abrupt changes of system parameters from which the event and the severity of the structural damage may be detected. The proposed technique is applied to linear structures, including the Phase I ASCE structural health monitoring benchmark building, and a nonlinear elastic structure to demonstrate its performance and advantages. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed technique is capable of tracking the parametric change of structures due to damages.     

Description of Structural Damage Caused by the Terrorist Attack on the Pentagon

On September 11, 2001, an airliner was intentionally crashed into the Pentagon. It struck at the first elevated slab on the west wall, and slid approximately 310?ft (94.5?m) diagonally into the building. The force of the collision demolished numerous columns and the fa?ade of the exterior wall, and induced damage to first-floor columns and the first elevated slab over an area approximately 90?ft (27.4?m) wide and 310?ft (94.5?m) long. None of the building collapsed immediately. The portion that remained standing, even after an intense fire, sustained substantial damage at the first-floor level.     

Viscoplastic modeling of asphalt mixes with the effects of anisotropy, damage and aggregate characteristics

This paper presents an approach for constitutive modeling of the viscoplastic behavior of asphalt mixes. This approach utilizes an anisotropic non-associated flow rule based on the Drucker–Prager yield surface. The selection of this yield surface is motivated by the field stress paths and material properties associated with permanent deformation at high temperatures. The efficacy of the model is demonstrated by analyzing data from compressive triaxial tests conducted at different confining pressures and strain rates for three different mixes. The model parameters are related to the experimental measurements of aggregate shape characteristics, aggregate surface energy, inherent anisotropic distribution of aggregates, and microstructure damage measured using X-ray computed tomography and image analysis techniques. Establishing the relationship between the model parameters and material properties is important in order to optimize the mix properties, and achieve desirable mix performance.     

Identification of material parameters of the Gurson–Tvergaard–Needleman model by combined experimental and numerical techniques

To identify material parameters from suitable experiments it is prevalent to use global informations like force–displacement or force–necking curves. The quality of accordance between measured and calculated forces at given displacements can be expressed by a least-squares functional. In this contribution a non-linear optimization method will be presented, which minimizes the least-squares functional by use of a gradient based method. The gradient of this functional is calculated in a semi-analytical sensitivity analysis. To determine the derivatives of the force with respect to the material parameters, the local sensitivities on an intersection will be added together. On this intersection, the total nodal force and the external force have to be equal and the normal displacements have to be independent on the material parameters. The parameter identification is embedded in the finite element code SPC-PMHP for solving non-linear boundary and initial value problems on parallel computers. The Gurson–Tvergaard–Needleman model is used to describe the plastic deformation and damage behaviour of the ductile structural steel StE 690. The developed algorithm is applied to tensile tests with notched cylindrical bars.     

破片杀伤型战斗部对装备损伤的建模与仿真

装备损伤研究可为战时战场维修和战场备件提供依据，为在研武器装备战斗力的提升提供建议，并为装备的战场部署提供合理方案。运用仿真的方法建立装备损伤的数学模型并对损伤情况进行仿真是装备战斗损伤研究的一个重要途径。该文在分析装备损伤过程的基础上，根据实际的装备损伤情况，以破片杀伤型战斗部为威胁研究对象，建立了破片杀伤型战斗部损伤装备的数学模型，并设计了基于破片杀伤型战斗部对装备损伤过程的仿真流程，分析了仿真实现过程中的主要问题，实现了破片杀伤型战斗部对装备损伤的建模和仿真。     

地震资料预测地层破裂压力的方法

介绍了利用地震资料预测地层破裂压力的方法。该法主要是先从地震资料中提取地层速度 ,然后预测地层孔隙压力 ,在此基础上按一定的模式进行地层破裂压力的预测。该方法在塔里木和吐哈油田两个构造上应用 ,预测精度达 90 %以上 ,能满足工程需要。     

A distributed motion coordination strategy for multiple nonholonomic mobile robots in cooperative hunting operations

This paper presents a distributed smooth time-varying feedback control law for coordinating motions of multiple nonholonomic mobile robots of the Hilare-type to capture/enclose a target by making troop formations. This motion coordination is a cooperative behavior for security against invaders in surveillance areas. Each robot in this control law has its own coordinate system and it senses a target/invader, other robots and obstacles, to achieve this cooperative behavior without making any collision. Each robot especially has a two-dimensional control input referred to as a “formation vector” and the formation is controllable by the vectors. The validity of this control law is supported by computer simulations.     

30Cr1Mo1V蠕变损伤的实验研究

在540℃和565℃温度下进行了30CrlMolV的蠕变试验，采用Kachanov蠕变损伤公式、Norton蠕变损伤公式和口函数法对蠕变实验数据进行了计算分析。采用θ函数法求得的最小蠕变速度作为Norton蠕变损伤公式中的第2阶段蠕变速度。分析结果显示，在两种温度下采用kachanov公式计算的损伤是一致的。比较Kachanov蠕变损伤公式和Norton蠕变损伤公式计算的损伤因子，发现存在较大差异。Norton公式计算表明，损伤与应力水平有关系，应力变量和损伤变量相互耦合。Kachanov计算模型只有在蠕变的时间分数小于0．7是安全的。