Disaster reduction stick equipment: A method for monitoring and early warning of pipeline-landslide hazards

Oil and gas pipelines are of great importance in China,and pipeline security problems pose a serious threat to society and the environment.Pipeline safety has therefore become an integral part of the entire national economy.Landslides are the most harmful type of pipeline accident,and have directed increasing public attention to safety issues.Although some useful results have been obtained in the investigation and prevention of pipeline-landslide hazards,there remains a need for effective monitoring and early warning methods,especially when the complexity of pipeline-landslides is considered.Because oil and gas pipeline-landslides typically occur in the superficial soil layers,monitoring instruments must be easy to install and must cause minimal disturbance to the surrounding soil and pipeline.To address the particular characteristics of pipelinelandslides,we developed a multi-parameter integrated monitoring system called disaster reduction stick equipment.In this paper,we detail this monitoring and early warning system for pipeline-landslide hazards based on an on-site monitoring network and early warning algorithms.The functionality of our system was verified by its successful application to the Chongqing Loujiazhuang pipeline-landslide in China.The results presented here provide guidelines for the monitoring,early warning,and prevention of pipeline geological hazards.

Hypersingular parameterized Marcinkiewicz integrals with variable kernels on Sobolev and Hardy-Sobolev spaces

Let α≥ 0 and 0 〈 ρ ≤ n/2, the boundedness of hypersingular parameterized Marcinkiewicz integrals μΩ,α^ρ with variable kernels on Sobolev spaces Lα^ρ and HardySobolev spaces Hα^ρ is established.

Comparison and analysis of Envisat ASAR ocean wave spectra with buoy data in the northern Pacific Ocean

The validation and assessment of Envisat advanced synthetic aperture radar (ASAR) ocean wave spectra products are important to their application in ocean wave numerical predictions. Six-year ASAR wave spectra data are compared with one-dimensional (1D) wave spectra of 55 co-located moored buoy observations in the northern Pacific Ocean. The ASAR wave spectra data are firstly quality control filtered and spatio-temporal matched with buoy data. The comparisons are then performed in terms of 1D wave spectra, significant wave height (SWH) and mean wave period (MWP) in different spatio-temporal offsets respectively. SWH comparison results show the evident dependence of SWH biases on wind speed and the ASAR SWH saturation effect. The ASAR wave spectra tend to underestimate SWH at high wind speeds and overestimate SWH at low wind speeds. MWP comparison results show that MWP has a systematic bias and therefore it should be bias-modified before used. The comparisons of 1D wave spectra show that both wave spectra agree better at low frequencies than at high frequencies, which indicates the ASAR data cannot resolve the high frequency waves.

Development of an Integrated Vertical-Slantwise Convective Parameterization Scheme and Its Associated Numerical Experiments

An integrated vertical-slantwise convective parameterization scheme, based on the vertical Kuo-Anthes and the slantwise Nordeng convective parameterization schemes, is introduced into the MM5 model. By employing the MM5 model with the proposed scheme, numerical simulations of a snowstorm event that occurred over southern China on 28-29 January 2008 and of Typhoon Haitang （2005） are conducted. The results indicate that during the snowstorm event, the atmosphere was convectively stable in the vertical direction but with conditional symmetric instability （CSI） in the lower troposphere, and when the area of CSI developed and extended to upper levels, strong rising motion occurred and triggered the release of large amount of energy, producing enhanced convective precipitation with the total precipitation much closer to the observation. The development and strengthening of CSI corresponded to changes in the intensity of snowfall, convergence, and ascending motions of air, revealing that CSI was responsible for the initiation and growth of the snowstorm. The results from a 72-h explicit simulation of Typhoon Haitang indicate that CSI occurred mainly at lower levels with a well-defined spiral structure, and it tended to have a larger impact on the intensity of typhoon than on its track. The minimum pressure at the typhoon center for the 72-h runs with the integrated vertical-slantwise convective parameterization scheme was on average 3 hPa （maximum 8 hPa） lower than that from the runs with only the vertical cumulus parameterization scheme. Introducing the influence of CSI into the model has improved the warm core structure at the middle and upper levels of the typhoon, with stronger and persistent upward motions causing increased precipitation, and the latent heat released through convection in turn made the typhoon develop further.

DISOPE distributed model predictive control of cascade systems with network communication

A novel distributed model predictive control scheme based on dynamic integrated system optimization and parameter estimation （DISOPE） was proposed for nonlinear cascade systems under network environment. Under the distributed control structure, online optimization of the cascade system was composed of several cascaded agents that can cooperate and exchange information via network communication. By iterating on modified distributed linear optimal control problems on the basis of estimating parameters at every iteration the correct optimal control action of the nonlinear model predictive control problem of the cascade system could be obtained, assuming that the algorithm was convergent. This approach avoids solving the complex nonlinear optimization problem and significantly reduces the computational burden. The simulation results of the fossil fuel power unit are illustrated to verify the effectiveness and practicability of the proposed algorithm.

Investigation on characteristic of J integral parameter in welded joints

The J integral parameter and its application feasibility in welded joints with different weldmatchings in yield strength (overmatching weld and undermatching weld), different material constitutive laws (material with a Ludes yield plateau and power hardening) and under different fracture types (ligament yielding fracture and general yielding fracture) are investigated. First the condition of J integral path independent has been studied based upon finite element analysis by using ADINA procedure on welded joints. It was shown that the J integral is path dependent for the cases studied in this paper. Then experiments were carried out to study availability ofJ integral as a plastic singularity parameter at the tip of the notch in welded joints. The results show that J dominance in most cases studied is not validated in v and u displacement fields. From both considerations mentioned above it can be concluded that J-integral as controlling parameter used to estimate the safety of welded structures is not always made clear.

A note on parameterized Marcinkiewicz integrals with variable kernels

In this paper,the parameterized Marcinkiewicz integrals with variable kernels defined by μΩ^ρ（f）（x）=（∫0^∞│∫│1-y│≤t Ω（x,x-y）/│x-y│^n-p f（y）dy│^2dt/t1＋2p）^1/2 are investigated.It is proved that if Ω∈ L∞（R^n） × L^r（S^n-1）（r〉（n-n1p＇/n） is an odd function in the second variable y,then the operator μΩ^ρ is bounded from L^p（R^n） to L^p（R^n） for 1 〈 p ≤ max{（n＋1）/2,2}.It is also proved that,if Ω satisfies the L^1-Dini condition,then μΩ^ρ is of type（p,p） for 1 〈 p ≤ 2,of the weak type（1,1） and bounded from H1 to L1.

THE INTEGRAL AS A FUNCTlON OF THE UPPER LIMIT AND DEPENDING ON A PARAMETER TO SOLVE DRAWING THROUGH IDLING ROLLS

The relocity and sirain-rate .field which are different from Avilzur's have beenestablished in Caitesian coordinates. Using the integral as a function of the upper limitand integration depending on a parameler, an analylical upper-bound solution todrawing stress through idling rolls has been obtained in this paper.

Parameterized Littlewood-Paley Operators and Area Integrals on Weak Hardy Spaces

In this paper, we establish the boundedness of parameterized Littlewood-Paley operator μλ^＊,p and parameterized area integralμΩ^σSp with kernel satisfying the logarithmic type Lipschitz condition on the weak Hardy space.