The Zhujiang (Pearl River) Estuary is a complex water system whose catchments basincovers a very large part of southern China. The large quantity of fresh water carried by the river system flows into the northern coas...The Zhujiang (Pearl River) Estuary is a complex water system whose catchments basincovers a very large part of southern China. The large quantity of fresh water carried by the river system flows into the northern coast of the South China Sea through its eight inlets. The Zhujiang River Delta has experienced the fastest economic growth in China during the past two decades. Rapid population expansion and increased industrial development coupled with insufficient waste management turned the Zhujiang Estuary into waste disposal channels just before entering the coastal waters. The water quality of the estuaries and the coastal oceans has become polluted. During the past two years, an intensive study and monitoring efforts of the pollutions of these waters have been made. A systematic and integrated monitoring task including shore-based measurements, shipboard in-situ measurements, and satellite and radar remote sensing surveys has been completed. Comprehensive collection of physical, chemical and biological parameters has been accomplished and a database has been established. Unlike the previous large scale-monitoring task in which the various pollutant concentrations were the objective, the present study aims to understand the process of the pollution from their initial disposal to their final states. The understanding of the processes makes it possible to evaluate the severity of the pollution with respect to the sustainability. Also the objective is to incorporate these processes into the mathematical models from which a predictive capability of the pollution situation can be realized. The present presentation will describe the planning, methodology and the results of this effort.展开更多
This paper is concerned with the development of new simple 4-noded locking-alleviated smart finite elements for modeling the smart composite beams.The exact solutions for the static responses of the overall smart comp...This paper is concerned with the development of new simple 4-noded locking-alleviated smart finite elements for modeling the smart composite beams.The exact solutions for the static responses of the overall smart composite beams are also derived for authenticating the new smart finite elements.The overall smart composite beam is composed of a laminated substrate conventional composite beam,and a piezoelectric layer attached at the top surface of the substrate beam.The piezoelectric layer acts as the actuator layer of the smart beam.Alternate finite element models of the beams,based on an“equivalent single layer high order shear deformation theory”,and a“layer-wise high order shear deformation theory”,are also derived for the purpose of investigating the required number of elements across the thickness of the overall smart composite beams.Several cross-ply substrate beams are considered for presenting the results.The responses computed by the present new“smart finite element model”excellently match with those obtained by the exact solutions.The new smart finite elements developed here reveal that the development of finite element models of smart composite beams does not require the use of conventional first order or high order or layer-wise shear deformation theories of beams.Instead,the use of the presently developed locking-free 4-node elements based on conventional linear piezo-elasticity is sufficient.展开更多
基金This work was supported by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charity Fund through Chief Executive' s Community Project, "PREPP" the Ministry of Science and Technology of China through 863/818 Project , "Zhujiang Estuary Integrated Ob-servation System".
文摘The Zhujiang (Pearl River) Estuary is a complex water system whose catchments basincovers a very large part of southern China. The large quantity of fresh water carried by the river system flows into the northern coast of the South China Sea through its eight inlets. The Zhujiang River Delta has experienced the fastest economic growth in China during the past two decades. Rapid population expansion and increased industrial development coupled with insufficient waste management turned the Zhujiang Estuary into waste disposal channels just before entering the coastal waters. The water quality of the estuaries and the coastal oceans has become polluted. During the past two years, an intensive study and monitoring efforts of the pollutions of these waters have been made. A systematic and integrated monitoring task including shore-based measurements, shipboard in-situ measurements, and satellite and radar remote sensing surveys has been completed. Comprehensive collection of physical, chemical and biological parameters has been accomplished and a database has been established. Unlike the previous large scale-monitoring task in which the various pollutant concentrations were the objective, the present study aims to understand the process of the pollution from their initial disposal to their final states. The understanding of the processes makes it possible to evaluate the severity of the pollution with respect to the sustainability. Also the objective is to incorporate these processes into the mathematical models from which a predictive capability of the pollution situation can be realized. The present presentation will describe the planning, methodology and the results of this effort.
文摘This paper is concerned with the development of new simple 4-noded locking-alleviated smart finite elements for modeling the smart composite beams.The exact solutions for the static responses of the overall smart composite beams are also derived for authenticating the new smart finite elements.The overall smart composite beam is composed of a laminated substrate conventional composite beam,and a piezoelectric layer attached at the top surface of the substrate beam.The piezoelectric layer acts as the actuator layer of the smart beam.Alternate finite element models of the beams,based on an“equivalent single layer high order shear deformation theory”,and a“layer-wise high order shear deformation theory”,are also derived for the purpose of investigating the required number of elements across the thickness of the overall smart composite beams.Several cross-ply substrate beams are considered for presenting the results.The responses computed by the present new“smart finite element model”excellently match with those obtained by the exact solutions.The new smart finite elements developed here reveal that the development of finite element models of smart composite beams does not require the use of conventional first order or high order or layer-wise shear deformation theories of beams.Instead,the use of the presently developed locking-free 4-node elements based on conventional linear piezo-elasticity is sufficient.
