利用强夯模拟试验研究饱和砂土强夯动本构关系

饱和土是孔隙中充满水的松散介质, 在强夯冲击荷载作用下的变形是非线性变形, 因此, 饱和土强夯动本构关系有其特殊性。本文利用具有 90年代先进水平高精度、高灵敏度的MTS810土动三轴仪对强夯加固饱和土地基进行了全面、系统的模拟试验, 试验按模型比设计, 试验条件与实际土体工况符合, 通过多组不同条件的组合试验, 获得了大量强夯数据, 在此基础上结合强夯现场试验对强夯过程中各种变量的变化过程及其相互关系进行了分析研究, 推导出强夯冲击荷载作下饱和土的动本构关系, 对强夯作用下土体动本构关系问题作出了有益的探索。     

A Calibration‐Base Method for the Evaluation of the Detection Limit of an Electrochemical Biosensor

The method based on the confidence limits of a regression straight line is applied to the linear portion of the calibration curve of a biosensor in order to determine the limit of detection. A practical application gives a detection limit of an ethanol biosensor greater than that calculated by using the method of the signal‐to‐noise‐ratio, S/N=3, but the value is more reliable because it accounts for the variability in the response at analyte additions. A simple approximation of the method is also presented.     

On the upper tail of Italian firms’ size distribution

In this paper we analyze the upper tail of the size distribution of Italian companies with limited liability belonging to the CEBI database. Size is defined in terms of net worth.In particular, we show that the largest firms follow a power law distribution, according to the well-known Pareto law, for which we give estimates of the shape parameter. Such a behavior seems to be quite persistent over time, view that for almost 20 years of observations, the shape parameter is always in the vicinity of 1.8.The power law hypothesis is also positively tested using graphical and analytical methods.     

Instabilities in shear and simple shear deformations of gold crystals

We use the tight-binding potential and molecular mechanics simulations to study local and global instabilities in shear and simple shear deformations of three initially defect-free finite cubes of gold single crystal containing 3480, 7813, and 58,825 atoms. Displacements on all bounding surfaces are prescribed while studying simple shear deformations, but displacements on only two opposite surfaces are assigned during simulations of shear deformations with the remaining four surfaces kept free of external forces. The criteria used to delineate local instabilities in the system include the following: (i) a component of the second-order spatial gradients of the displacement field having large values relative to its average value in the body, (ii) the minimum eigenvalue of the Hessian of the energy of an atom becoming non-positive, and (iii) structural changes represented by a high value of the common neighborhood parameter. It is found that these criteria are met essentially simultaneously at the same atomic position. Effects of free surfaces are evidenced by different deformation patterns for the same specimen deformed in shear and simple shear. The shear strength of a specimen deformed in simple shear is more than three times that of the same specimen deformed in shear. It is found that for each cubic specimen deformed in simple shear the evolution with the shear strain of the average shear stress, prior to the onset of instabilities, is almost identical to that in an equivalent hyperelastic material with strain energy density derived from the tight-binding potential and the assumption that it obeys the Cauchy-Born rule. Even though the material response of the hyperelastic body predicted from the strain energy density is stable over the range of the shear strain simulated in this work, the molecular mechanics simulations predict local and global instabilities in the three specimens.     

Pseudospin symmetry as an accidental symmetry in the relativistic framework

We analyse the arguments used in the relativistic context to base the quasi-degeneracy of pseudospin doublets (PSDs) observed in atomic nuclei on the smallness of the single-particle central potential (Σ _S + Σ₀), discussing, especially, the implications of the results obtained in the limit (Σ _S + Σ₀ = 0. We study also the transition from a relativistic model, where Σ _S + Σ₀ is a harmonic-oscillator potential and exhibits degenerate PSDs, to a more realistic one with broken pseudospin symmetry. We examine, in particular, the effect of the corresponding pseudospin symmetry-breaking term on the Dirac spinors of the PSDs. An extension of the Nilsson model to the relativistic case is also considered. Communicated by V. Vento     

黄河三角洲粉质土的动模量和阻尼比试验研究

结合室内共振柱和动三轴实验,对黄河三角洲饱和原状粉质土体(粉土、粉砂、粉质粘土)动模量和阻尼比的影响因素和发展规律进行了详细的研究。研究表明,在粉粒和粘粒含量对动模量的共同影响中,粉粒含量起着举足起重的作用;侧限压力对归一化剪模比和阻尼比的影响均较显著,相比粘粒含量的影响不大。通过与Seed建议的砂土及饱和粘土的G/Gmax~γ曲线和λ~γ曲线进行对比,结果显示研究区的粉质土相比一般的砂土和饱和粘土而言,其动力变形特性更接近于砂土,但是与砂土也存在着非常明显的差异;其发展规律与其他地区沉积粉质土也较为不同,具有明显的区域性。采用修正了的Hard in-D rnevich模型和对数模型分别对G/Gmax~γ曲线和λ~γ曲线进行拟合,给出了三类粉质土的归一化动力变形G/Gmax~γ/γr关系曲线,对模型中有关参数的影响因素做了初步的探讨。     

Damage of a high-energy solid propellant and its effects on combustion

In order to improve the safety of high-energy solid propellants, a study is carried out for the effects of damage on the combustion of the NEPE (Nitrate Ester Plasticized Polyether) propellant. The study includes: (1) to introduce damage into the propellants by means of a large-scale drop-weight apparatus; (2) to observe microstructural variations of the propellant with a scanning electron microscope (SEM) and then to characterize the damage with density measurements; (3) to investigate thermal decomposition; (4) to carry out closed-bomb tests. The NEPE propellant can be considered as a viscoelastic material. The matrices of damaged samples are severely degraded, but the particles are not. The results of the thermal decomposition and closed-bomb tests show that the microstructural damage in the propellant affects its decomposition and burn rate.     

系统锚杆对边坡岩体加固效果的数值模型试验研究

以大型的岩土工程数值分析软件AD INA为研究手段,对边坡岩体的分离块体经系统锚杆加固后,其抗压强度、弹性模量及c、φ值的提高,并计算和比较了锚固对不同强度岩体的参数影响大小,并对锚固岩体的各向异性进行了初步研究,垂直布锚对岩体的弹性模量影响较大,但是对于岩体的抗压强度的影响相对较小。     

On the Deformation of the Circumflex Coronary Artery During Inflation Tests at Constant Length

Here we investigate whether the deformation observed in an experiment in which the porcine circumflex coronary artery is subjected to inflation at constant length included in the class, , , . We find that this is not the case and discuss its implications in the study of the mechanics of this artery. Moreover, we identify and quantify the uncertainty in the value of the invariants of the left Cauchy–Green tensor inferred from the 2D motion of markers affixed to the surface of the test specimen, and suggest that 3D tracking of markers is needed due to inherent bending and twisting induced by pressurization in vitro.