The impact of property price on construction output

The interaction between the construction market and the overall economy has attracted much attention, but few studies have investigated the influence of the property market on the construction market in terms of property price. The disaggregated data of Hong Kong’s housing and retail construction sectors are collected to investigate the impact of property price on construction output. The newly developed autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach and the error correction (EC)-based Granger causality test are employed. The bounds testing results suggest that there exist stable long-run relationships between construction output and property price for both housing and retail construction sectors. Specifically, a 1.00% increase in the housing price and retail price lead to a 0.55% and 0.42% increase in construction outputs for the two sectors respectively. In addition, the Granger causality tests confirm a distinct long-run causal flow from property price to construction output. Furthermore, the proposed ARDL approach provides an effective method for forecasting construction output.     

竖向荷载作用下单桩侧摩阻力及剪切位移研究

提出一种利用土的基本力学指标，可以确定桩在竖向荷载作用下桩侧摩阻力与剪切位移的关系公式，对于理论分析桩的荷载沉降提供一种有益的参考。     

A modelling study for moisture diffusivities and moisture transfer coefficients in drying of solid objects

This article presents an effective analytical model for determining the moisture diffusivities and moisture transfer coefficients for solid objects (namely, infinite slab, infinite cylinder, sphere; and also for irregularly shaped objects, by using a shape factor) subject to drying applications in a medium. The unsteady-state moisture diffusion analysis is used on the basis of two important criteria: 0·1 <Bi < 100 and Bi > 100. The drying coefficients and lag factors were employed. The analytical models are then verified using available experimental data taken from the literature. The results show that the method presented here can be used to determine the moisture diffusion coefficients and moisture transfer coefficients for such solid objects in a simple and accurate manner for a variety of drying applications.     

A finite segment model for shear lag analysis

A finite segment model is developed to calculate the shear lag effects for box girders with varying depth. Multiple longitudinal displacement functions are used to derive the stiffness matrix and the nodal force vector of the segment element. The shear deformation of the web is taken into consideration. A Perspex glass model of a three-span continuous box girder with varying depth is tested to provide experimental results for verifying the accuracy of the proposed method. The influences of the flange width to span ratio and girder–height ratio upon the shear lag are presented and discussed.     

依据规范设计的钢板剪力墙的抗震性能

目前美国钢结构协会(AISC)抗震设计规范纳入了钢板剪力墙(SPSWs)的设计要求。钢板剪力墙由薄钢板中夹着被称为水平边界单元(HBEs)的钢梁和被称为竖直边界单元(VBEs)的钢柱组成。无加劲薄钢板在较低剪力作用下屈曲并发展变形,通过屈服变形达到延性和耗能的目的。HBEs的作用是加劲和提高整体强度,并将屈服局限于薄钢板内。VBEs的作用是促进梁端塑性铰的形成。研究依据规范设计的钢板剪力墙的性能,设计了一系列钢板剪力墙试件,采用不同震级的地面震动反应谱的非线性时程分析对其进行性能研究。研究发现,依据现行规范设计的试件能满足各种地震烈度下最大层间位移的要求,并且在最高地震烈度下最大层间位移比小于5%。由于高阶振型对反应的影响,低层钢板剪力墙的延性要求比高层钢板剪力墙要高。由钢板承担的楼层剪力与由边界框架承担的楼层剪力之比为60%～80%,此比值与板的长宽比和地震烈度无关,而与板的厚度有关。9层或以上钢板剪力墙在低烈度地震下对VBEs的需求比规范计算方法要小很多。     

类骨纳米结构生物材料的细观力学分析

根据贝壳、 骨骼等生物材料在纳米尺度的微结构特征, 采用剪滞模型, 分别推导了蛋白质材料为线弹性和弹塑性时类骨材料的等效模量和总体应力应变曲线。通过与有限元以及Gao等人的拉剪链模型结果的比较, 分析了线性剪滞模型和拉剪链模型在研究类骨材料等效模量时的有效性。结果显示, 剪滞模型与二维有限元结果符合较好, 拉剪链模型在长细比较大时与有限元结果偏离较大。进一步将弹塑性剪滞模型预测的应力-应变曲线与实验测量结果进行了比较, 两者符合较好。从模拟结果中可以看出, 在刚度发生明显降低之前, 已经有部分蛋白质进入塑性变形, 从而反映了生物材料的能耗与增韧特征。      

键合技术中键合胶残余应力检测的实验研究

通过检测受到键合胶残余应力影响的芯片表面的翘曲特征和力学特性,运用泰曼-格林干涉仪与力学实验机相结合,成功地分析了在采用粘胶键合中,粘胶硬化后残余应力对芯片的影响以及产生的原因,对键合胶的选择提出了科学的依据。本文对这种方法进行了理论分析和实验验证。     

Nucleation and growth behavior of β-nucleated iPP during shear induced crystallization investigated by in-situ synchrotron WAXS and SAXS

Polymer crystallization under flow was investigated because final properties of polymers strongly depend on the crystalline structure and morphology formed during processing. In-situ synchrotron WAXS and SAXS were used to investigate the structure formation and morphological developments during quiescent and shear-induced crystallization of iPP with 3 different concentrations (0.01, 0.03 and 0.1 wt%) of β-nucleating agent. Under quiescent conditions, a high β-content was obtained at all those concentrations indicating the high β-nucleating efficiency of the nucleating agent. After application of shear, the β-nucleating ability at small concentration was retained, while at larger concentrations it was strongly retarded. Furthermore, the addition of β-nucleating agent was beneficial for the molecular alignment during processing, the anisotropic particles of β-nucleating agent were much more effective to align the molecular chains in the flow direction compared to isotropic ones. A crystallization scheme for the iPP β-nucleating agent under shear was proposed.     

Scattering of guided shear waves in plates with discontinuities

This paper investigates the interaction of the SH0 mode with discontinuities in plate waveguides. The scattered fields are evaluated using a novel method that exploits the principle of reciprocity in elastodynamics. The results obtained compare to those provided by a finite element model. Very good agreement between the analytical and numerical models proves the effectiveness of the proposed approach, enabling us to clearly elucidate the role of the different size and shape parameters involved. The discontinuities considered are single and double sharp reductions of plate height of different amounts and lengths, where both symmetric and nonsymmetric one-sided notch cases are treated. Regimes related to low and high values of the product frequency and height of the plate are investigated, showing the dependence of reflection and transmission coefficients on length and height of the discontinuity, as well as the occurrence of mode conversion. The analytical approach proposed leads to a better understanding of the interaction of guided waves with discontinuities, which may stimulate the application of guided waves to defect sizing rather than to simple detection.