Advanced Materials Research Vols. 446-449

Abstract: Selection of the material and design of earthquake resistance structures are an important issue today. Many people die every year due to inappropriate design and selection of the materials. There are several software to be used for structural design of buildings, however they just design the structure based on some limited standards. There is a need to develop a computer-based earthquake resistant design model to integrate the current market’s software with different design standards of different countries. The objective of this study is to propose a model to integrate the local structural design standards/codes with available market’s programs. To achieve this objective, Microsoft Excel was used as the core of the model to be integrated with one of the market’s program. Then, the model was developed in three phases. To test the model, the Iranian design standard (Code 2800) was used to design a 7-story apartment. The results show that the model can be fully integrated with those market’s programs which support Microsoft Excel. The result of Phase 1 of the model is useful to select the optimum selection of the material while Phase 2 and 3 contribute to design of the earthquake resistant structure.

Abstract: A Concrete-filled Rectangular Steel Tube (CRST) frame structure is studied in this paper by shaking table model test and nonlinear simulation. A number of viscous dampers are employed to insure the function of the building especially under seismic action for some of the main vertical elements of the building are not continuous. A shaking table test of a scaled model was conducted under different earthquake waves to investigate the structural behavior. And the nonlinear time-history analysis for the shaking table test model was also carried out by finite element analysis program according to the shaking table test. The simulation model was constructed in accordance with the tested specimen and the simulation effect was then validated by the tested results. To sum up, (1) there are no obvious weak stories on the damping equipped structure; (2) the dampers can reduce the displacement of the irregular to a certain degree.

Abstract: The occurrence of underground piping is a pluralistic and complex problem. Due to the great difficulty of the 3D dynamic simulation of piping both by theoretical and numerical analysis, currently there is no satisfactory mathematical model and numerical analysis software for it. In order to simulate the piping development process of sluice or dike foundation, in this paper, the 3D steady-unsteady saturated-unsaturated FEM seepage simulation method is used, and the concepts of destroyed element and variable grid method are introduced. The destroyed elements are removed from the original grid during the iterative calculation process, and the corresponding procedure for the 3D steady-unsteady piping process of sluice foundation is designed. Using appropriate post-processing program, the whole piping development of a sluice foundation can be displayed. A piping test of a sluice foundation model is simulated by the method provided in this paper. For the comparison of the experimental result and the simulation result, they showed very good agreement, which can verify the correctness of the piping simulation and programming methods given in this paper.

Abstract: Third order displacement function is introduced into DDA (DDA3O), which can easy to analysis the nonlinear distribution of deformation, stress and strain within a single block. In this paper, additional nodes were inserted on the boundary. So, when large deformation is involved, even the original straightly boundary of block will deform to one formed by curved edges, the simplex integration along the curved edge can increase accuracy and simulation of contact between blocks can be more reasonable. On the other hand，the problem of transferring the initial stress from previous step to next step is difficulty and unresolved problem, because of the strain matrix of high order displacement function involving the unknown variables x, y. A new method presented herein is inherent previous the displacement of block to next step, which is proved right and efficient. At last, some example was calculated to demonstrate the excellent accuracy and efficiency of DDA3O.

Abstract: This paper developed numerical analysis program. Results agree well with the tested ones.So the numerical analysis method can be used to estimate the bearing capacity and deformation.

Abstract: Signal denoising is one of the classic problems in the field of signal processing. As a new kind of signal processing tool, the good denoising performance of wavelet analysis has caused public growing concern and attention. The paper does systematic research on nonlinear wavelet threshold denoising method. And the wavelet denoising method has been used on GPS signal, and good results have been achieved.

Abstract: The construction industry consumes a substantial amount of raw materials in its processes and the output is obviously the product and most importantly the waste material. Other than that, the construction industry is well known as one of the worst environmental polluters. This study is to determine the use of waste minimisation technique in creating sustainable waste management in order to identify the technique which has the most capabilities to reduce on-site waste. The objective of this study is to assess the waste minimization techniques taken from the 4R concept (which includes reduce, reuse, recycle and recovery techniques) in minimizing the waste in construction waste management. The most used waste minimization technique found in the 4R concept would be waste reduction. This shows that the local construction industry has the knowledge necessary to plan out the waste management processes but the implementation is still far from satisfying. Additionally, the findings reveal that because the industry is profit-driven, construction practitioners are motivated by profit to adapt to this techniques.

Abstract: In order to frame a perfect formulation called ‘The rule of small sewage amount treatment engineering design’, it has been investigated into the life wastewater discharge in some typical residential areas in Nanjing and Yangzhou, China. Also, the effect of economy level on daily discharge amount of life wastewater has been investigated. During the investigation, the effects made by temperature and economy level on daily discharge amount of life wastewater are emphasized. And the results show that, the hourly and daily fluctuations of life wastewater discharge are closely related to people's life habit, temperature and income level.

Abstract: Special load has produced serious damage to the concrete pavement because of the great gross weight and heavy axle load, but the present specification has not mentioned this kind of load. On this occasion, Several conditions of critical load are identified through ANSYS finite element model analysis and the formula through statistical regression analysis to the bottom maximum tension stress is drawn up. Which can not only guide the concrete pavement design under the special load but also the result may be referred by the other kinds of engineering.