MODEL EXPERIMENT ABOUT RESPONSE OF FLOATING ICE SHEET SUBJECTED TO MOVING AIR CUSHION VEHICLE

基于弹性薄板振动微分方程和相似理论,建立了气垫船在浮冰上运动的原型系统与模型系统参数之间的相似对应关系. 导出了浮冰层自由振动波形传播的相速度和群速度计算公式,明确了相速度的极小值和浅水波传播速度即为气垫船的第一、第二临界速度. 根据研制的高精度非接触式激光位移测量系统,在变水深拖曳水槽中, 开展了不同速度移动气垫载荷激励薄膜变形响应的系列实验,证实了存在使薄膜变形达到最大的移动气垫载荷临界速度. 第一临界速度使气垫载荷之后的薄膜产生最大的下陷变形,第二临界速度使气垫载荷之前的薄膜产生最大的上凸变形. 通过实验结果进一步分析了气垫速度、高度、压力及水深等参数对薄膜变形和临界速度的影响,揭示了移动气垫载荷激励薄膜变形响应的聚能共振增幅机理,为利用气垫船实施有效破冰提供了依据.     

GPU-BASED DISCRETE ELEMENT MODELLING OF INTERACTION BETWEEN SEA ICE AND JACK-UP PLATFORM STRUCTURE

在海冰与自升式海洋平台结构的相互作用过程中,冰载荷是影响平台结构振动响应和疲劳寿命的重要因素. 采用具有粘接-破碎效应的离散元模型,可对海冰与自升式海洋平台结构作用中的海冰破碎特征及相应冰载荷进行数值分析. 针对自升式海洋平台的多桩腿结构特性及其冰载荷离散元分析的大规模计算需求,建立了基于GPU 的并行算法并开发了相应的计算程序. 为实现离散元分析的高效计算,采用网格排序方法创建单元邻居列表,以快速确定海冰单元间及其与平台结构间的接触模式和作用力. 此外,还发展了球体单元与圆柱形结构在不同接触形式下的计算模型. 为检验该离散元模型的有效性,对渤海锥体海洋平台结构的作用过程进行了计算,并与现场实测冰力数据进行了对比验证. 在此基础上对多桩腿自升式平台结构的冰载荷进行了离散元分析,获得了海冰的破坏特性,确定了不同桩腿上的冰力时程. 该模型可进一步应用于不同类型海洋结构的冰载荷分析,为冰区海洋平台的结构设计和现役平台结构的疲劳分析提供参考依据.     

Thermoluminescence study of the amorphisation of hexagonal ice by irradiation at 77 K

This paper reports on a thermoluminescence study of D₂O ice I_h. A sample of hexagonal (I_h) ice is irradiated by a 100 MeV X-ray source at 77 K. The emission spectrum that is measured immediately after the end of the irradiation process has the thermoluminescent behaviour of amorphous ice. The kinetic transition is followed to the stable form, taking place at 85 K. The relaxation time of the transition is of the order of 5 minutes. It is concluded that, due to irradiation, a few outer layers of ice I_h are converted to the low-density amorphous form of ice, which then converts to cubic ice. Although complex to quantify, thermoluminescence appears to be, in the present study, particularly sensitive to the time evolution of irradiated samples.     

Detection of water–ice phase transition based on Raman spectrum

A simplified dimensionless method was constructed to characterize the phase transition between water and ice based on Raman spectrum (RS) without contact testing samples. This method reduces the requirement of the spectrum intensity, simplifies the complex mathematical analysis and improves the resolution of detection which only depends on the relative intensity of RS. The current work establishes an important tool for accurate characterization of RS so that it could better interpret various phase transition mechanisms of water and aqueous solutions. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Neutron scattering study of high-pressure phases obtained by thermobaric treatment

Abstract

A technique of thermobaric quenching has been developed at the Institute of Solid State Physics RAS, which made it possible to prepare and study bulk samples of high-pressure phases in a metastable state at ambient pressure. The paper briefly discusses results of recent neutron scattering investigations of the crystal structure and lattice dynamics of high-pressure phases and forms of various alloys and compounds, such as the bulk amorphous alloys Ga-Sb, GaSb-Ge, Zn-Sb, Al-Ge, amorphous ice and metal hydrides TiH, Mn-H, PdH and NiH.     

Mytilus galloprovincialis as a bioindicator of environmental conditions: the case of the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea

The marine mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis lives attached to the surface of hard substrata, where its exposure and relative immobility allow it to record changes in ambient seawater. It is also found along the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. Oxygen and carbon isotopes were analysed for calcite and aragonite in separate shell layers, while major, minor and trace elements in the bulk shell were analysed to evaluate environmental conditions such as the temperature of carbonate deposition, freshwater influence and locations of anthropogenic pollution. We found that, on average, aragonite is enriched by 1.1‰ in ¹³C and by 0.2‰ in ¹⁸O compared with calcite. The calculated temperatures for M. galloprovincialis shell growth from the investigated area range from 13.4 to 20.9 °C for calcite and from 16.6 to 23.1 °C for aragonite. According to the δ¹⁸O and δ¹³C values of shell layers, we can separate the investigated area into three locations: those with more influence of freshwater, those with less influence of freshwater and those with marine environments. The highest concentrations of manganese, barium, boron, arsenic, nickel and chromium were observed in shells from Omi?, Ba?vice and Zabla?e (Central Adriatic) and Sv. Ivan (South Adriatic), where chemical and heavy industries are located and where sewage is known to be discharged into coastal areas. The highest concentrations of zinc, lead and copper were measured in samples from Pula, Rijeka and Gru?, where there are also ports in addition to industry.     

Plutonium fractionation in southern Baltic Sea sediments

In this study, different chemical plutonium fractions (dissolved in water, connected to carbonates, connected to oxides, complexed with organic matter, mineral acids soluble and the rest) in sediments from the Vistula River estuary, the Gdańsk Basin and the Bornholm Deep were determined. The distribution of ^239+240Pu in analysed sediments samples was not uniform but dependent on its chemical form, depth and the sediment geomorphology. The highest amount of plutonium exists in middle parts of sediments and comes from the global atmospheric fallout from nuclear tests in 1958–1961. According to all analysed fractions, the biggest amount of ^239+240Pu was in the mobile form, connected to carbonate fractions from the Vistula River estuary, the Gulf of Gdańsk and the Bornholm Deep sediments.     

Sources of primary production to Arctic bivalves identified using amino acid stable carbon isotope fingerprinting*

ABSTRACT

Benthic invertebrates are a crucial trophic link in Arctic marine food webs. However, estimates of the contribution of different primary production sources sustaining these organisms are not well characterised. We measured the stable carbon isotope values (δ¹³C) of essential amino acids (EAAs) in muscle tissue from two common bivalve genera (Macoma spp. and Astarte spp.) collected in Hanna Shoal in the northeastern Chukchi Sea. Mixing models comparing the δ¹³C_EAA fingerprints of the bivalves to a suite of primary production endmembers revealed relatively high contributions of EAAs from phytoplankton and bacteria in both species. We also examined whether δ¹³C_EAA fingerprints could be produced from the EAAs preserved in bivalve shells, which could allow primary production sources to be estimated from ancient bivalve shells. The δ¹³C_EAA fingerprints from a suite of paired modern bivalve shells and muscle from Macoma calcarea from across the Chukchi Sea revealed a correspondence between the estimates of the dominant primary production source of EAAs derived from analyses of these two tissue types. Our findings indicate that δ¹³C_EAA fingerprinting of marine bivalves can be used to examine dominant organic matter sources in the Arctic marine benthos in recent years as well as in deeper time.     

Development of a sampling and flow injection analysis technique for iron determination in the sea ice environment

A trace metal clean method for sampling and analysis of iron is set up and applied to sea ice and its associated snow, brine, and underlying seawater sampled during the Antarctic expedition “ARISE in the East” (Antarctic Remote Ice Sensing Experiment, AA03-V1, September-October 2003, 64-65°S/112-119°E, RV Aurora Australis). For clean sampling, a non-contaminating electropolished stainless steel ice corer is designed in conjunction with a polyethylene lathe equipped with Ti chisels to remove possibly contaminated outer layers of ice cores. A portable peristaltic pump with clean tubing is used on the ice to sample the underlying seawater (interface ice-water = 0, 1 and 30 m) and sea ice brine from access holes. Considering the extreme range of salinities (1-100) and Fe concentrations (0.1-100 nM) previously observed in similar environments, it is of paramount importance to set up a simple and sensitive Fe analyser adapted to such gradients. We use a flow injection analysis (FIA) technique and successfully demonstrate its capability to measure Fe concentrations directly in the sample without an on-line preconcentration/matrix separation step. We test the sensitivity, accuracy, precision and long-term stability of the analytical procedure. Also we explore and remediate interferences from a suite of other trace elements, such as Ni, Cd, Cr, Mn, Cu, Zn and Co. Analysis of reference materials NASS-5 and CASS-3 gives a good agreement with the certified values. Repeated measurements over a period of 5 months of an “in-house” Antarctic seawater standard yields a concentration of 1.02 ± 0.07 nM (n = 17, 1σ). The detection limit (3σ of the blank) is on average 0.12 nM. We report here results of the Fe distribution in sea ice that are in good agreement with previously published data. To our knowledge, this work provides the first complete profiles of total dissolvable and dissolved Fe in sea ice.     

Three dimensional tide‐induced circulation model on a triangular mesh

In this paper a triangular mesh, which is generated by an automatic triangular mesh generator, is used to calculate the tide‐induced residual current in the Bohai Sea, China. The generator can modify the distribution of the node according to the water depth, thus ensuring the uniform distribution of the Courant number. The three dimensional nonlinear tide equation is employed to get the Eularian residual current and Stokes' drift. Then the Lagrangian residual current is obtained by adding the above two values. It has been proved in other papers that the Lagrangian residual current is more proper to represent the circulation and a numerical example is given. The application of these methods to the Bohai Sea shows that the results are in accordance with those obtained before. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.