Abstract: The Lushan earthquake on April 20, 2013 is another destructive event after the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008. More than 100 strong motion stations were triggered in the main shock. The 51BXD station located in Baoxing Country recorded a peak ground acceleration (PGA) of more than 1g, that is 1.026g (-...
Abstract: In order to probe into the effects of the drilling-blasting method for metro tunnel with complicated sections on city environment, based on the principles that the influences of city metro tunnel construction on surface ground and buildings must satisfy the vibration, deformation and stress control ...
Abstract: In order to reduce the vibration of building structures excited by earthquakes, the mass ratio, frequency ratio, and damping ratio of a tuned liquid column damper (TLCD) are optimized. A five-story reinforced concrete structure building is selected for the numerical example with the consideration of...
Abstract: In order to analyze the effects of traveling wave effect on the running safety of a train running over a high-speed railway bridge subjected to earthquake action, a dynamic model for train-track-bridge system subjected to non-uniform seismic excitation was set up based on the train-track-bridge dyna...
Abstract: In order to study the dynamic stiffness transition issue of hybrid girder bridges, a vertical vehicle-bridge coupled vibration model was built for a cable-stayed bridge with single tower. In the coupled vibration model, a finite element model for the bridge was established by converting the joint se...
Abstract: In order to solve the structural damage identification problem in strong noise environment, a two-step approach based on nonlinear denoising and damage location was proposed. In the first step, structural excitation response and background noise are processed through the nonlinear stochastic resonan...
Abstract: To overcome the error resulted from substituting chord length for arc length in the traditional method to calculate the move distance of a transition curve, based on the theories related to existing railway curve realignment by the coordinate method, a new method to calculate move distance was put f...
Abstract: In order to achieve the optimization of railway 3D alignments, an optimization model was built, in which comprehensive factors including construction, operation, environment, and constraints were embedded. Different distributions for horizontal and vertical control points were presented. A genetic s...
Abstract: In order to improve the engineering properties of undisturbed subgrade soil, systematic indoor experiments were made to study the expansive soil for the railway subgrade filling in Xi'an-Nanjing railway subgrade project. Physical and mechanical parameters of the expansive soil were measured by the b...
Abstract: In order to make up for the insufficiency of researches on the structural wind-resistant optimization of large span roofs, the quantum-behaved particle swarm algorithm was adopted to optimize a large-span roof under wind loads. Equivalent static wind loads on the structure were obtained from the dat...
Abstract: In order to predict snow deposition on a building roof under wind action, a numerical method based on the Euler-Euler two-phase mixture model was employed to simulate wind-induced roof snow distributions. In the method, the latest improved k-ω turbulence model is used to turbulence closure, and the ...
Abstract: In order to research the influence factor of the final state of structures formed by stages based on plane shell element, the structural equilibrium equation including the unstressed state amounts was established. The relationship between unstressed state amounts at any point within the isoparametri...
Abstract: As target tracking performance depends on correlated tracks and the selection of filter initial states, ensemble Kalman filter was introduced to nonlinear target tracking system, and the feasibility and validity of the system were verified. A new target tracking algorithm based on block ensemble Kal...
Abstract: Using a camera to obtain the stereo pair of digital photographs of forest area, and a three-dimensional electronic compass to measure the three-dimensional attitude angles at each instant shooting as the initial values, three dimensional coordinates of the forest fire-point was determined with bundl...
Abstract: As single-mass model of an EMU (electrical multiple units) model can not exactly describe vehicle braking performance, a multi-mass EMU model was established according to braking force distribution. Basic resistance, additional resistance and the time-varying power of traction network were deduced, ...
Abstract: The multi-objective optimal control problem of micro-grid is usually described by high dimensional nonlinear differential equations, which cannot be solved satisfactorily by current mathematics method. Hybrid control method is proposed to achieve multi-objective optimal control of micro-grid. A Stat...
Abstract: In view of magnitude attenuation and electromagnetic interference in the signal transmission of the inductively power transfer (ICPT) system, a new high-speed signal transmission method based on 2FSK is proposed. This method can achieve high-speed signal transmission without increasing the number of...
Abstract: To overcome the long time consumption of the explicit finite element calculation of wheel/rail rolling contact, the mixed Lagrangian/Eulerian method is used to establish a wheel/rail rolling contact finite element model. Through this model, the elements of the wheel/rail contact region are refined, ...
Abstract: In order to find out the causes of locomotive wheel tread spalling defects, the tread spalling of solid rolled wheels were sampled for routine examinations, including the SS3B31024047 wheels of the SS3B locomotive, the DF8B31644017 wheels and the DF8B32774060 wheels of the DF8B locomotive. The macro...
Abstract: In order to find a desired match and alleviate the wear and damage between wheel and rail materials, the rolling friction, wear, and damage behaviors between three kinds of wheel materials and U71Mn rail were investigated under dry conditions using the MMS-2A testing apparatus. The results indicate ...
Abstract: In order to achieve an innovation design of turbine blades, the point cloud data of an existing turbine blade was digitally acquired by a handy laser scanner, and then a reverse design methodology was proposed to accurately reconstruct a 3D digital model and extract the geometric and aerodynamic fea...
Abstract: In order to study the phenomenon that wing-mounted engines working at high altitudes could be affected by the atmospheric turbulence, a dynamic model of wing-mounted engine rotor system under atmospheric turbulence was established using the theories of wing aeroelastics and rotor dynamics and adopti...
Abstract: Analyzing route travel time variation of road network suffering traffic incidents can provide reliable decision supports for the incident management of advanced traffic management systems. Taking into consideration the randomness of travelers' daily route choice when incidents with a duration of sev...
Abstract: In order to construct a general passenger-dedicated line station model, which is irrelevant to the stations' structure and scale, the station model can be treated as a set of routes and tracks. Predicate/transition-system (Pr/T-S) has been extended to timed predicate/transition-system (TPr/T-S) with...
Abstract: To reduce the occurrence of rear-end collisions during the propagation of kinematic waves in freeway section upstream of a recurrent bottleneck, a simulation platform for variable speed limits (VSLs) was developed using the PARAMICS microscopic simulation model. The simulation network is a freeway s...
Abstract: Highway-Hierarchical algorithm is a highly efficient path planning approach in the recent years. In the preliminary data manipulation process, there are problems of compressed ring road in the network, the strategies of multi-layer data storage, and the calculation of the optimal route. To resolve t...
Abstract: In order to capture the uncertainty of short-term traffic forecasting caused by the random fluctuation of traffic flow, the heteroscedasticity which can reflect the fluctuation is used to quantify the reliability of traffic forecasting. On the basis of time series and its heteroscedastic theory, a g...
Abstract: In oder to obtain high quality single La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 (LSMO) buffer layers and study their low-field magnetoresistance (MR), a series of epitaxial films of perovskite manganites La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 (LSMO) deposited on the LaAlO3 (LAO) single crystal substrates were fabricated by the polymer-assisted chemi...