Semi-analytical elasticity solutions for bending of angle-ply laminates in cylindrical bending are presented using the state-space-based differential quadrature method (SSDQM). Partial differential state equation is d...Semi-analytical elasticity solutions for bending of angle-ply laminates in cylindrical bending are presented using the state-space-based differential quadrature method (SSDQM). Partial differential state equation is derived from the basic equations of elasticity based on the state space concept. Then, the differential quadrature (DQ) technique is introduced to discretize the longitu- dinal domain of the plate so that a series of ordinary differential state equations are obtained at the discrete points. Meanwhile, the edge constrained conditions are handled directly using the stress and displacement components without the Saint-Venant principle. The thickness domain is solved analytically based on the state space formalism along with the continuity conditions at interfaces. The present method is validated by comparing the results to the exact solutions of Pagano’s problem. Numerical results for fully clamped thick laminates are presented, and the influences of ply angle on stress distributions are discussed.展开更多
In this paper,the results of spectral description and invertibility of upper triangle infinite-dimensionalHamiltonian operators with a diagonal domain are given.By the above results,it is proved that the infinite-dime...In this paper,the results of spectral description and invertibility of upper triangle infinite-dimensionalHamiltonian operators with a diagonal domain are given.By the above results,it is proved that the infinite-dimensionalHamiltonian operator associated with plane elasticity equations without the body force is invertible,and the spectrumof which is non-empty and is a subset of R.展开更多
The influence of pre-quaternary underlying terrain on the formation of loess landforms, i.e., the geomorphological inheritance issue, is a focus in studies of loess landforms. On the basis of multi-source information,...The influence of pre-quaternary underlying terrain on the formation of loess landforms, i.e., the geomorphological inheritance issue, is a focus in studies of loess landforms. On the basis of multi-source information, we used GIS spatial analysis methods to construct a simulated digital elevation model of a pre-quaternary paleotopographic surface in a severe soil erosion area of the Loess Plateau. To reveal the spatial relationship between underlying paleotopography and modern terrain, an XY scatter diagram, hypsometric curve, gradient and concavity of terrain profiles are used in the experiments. The experiments show that the altitude, gradient and concavity results have significant linear positive correlation between both terrains, which shows a relatively strong landform inheritance relationship, particularly in the intact and complete loess deposit areas. Despite the current surface appearing somewhat changed from the original shape of the underlying terrain under different erosion forces, we reveal that the modern terrain generally smoothes the topographic relief of underlying terrain in the loess deposition process. Our results deepen understanding of the characteristics of geomorphological inheritance in the formation and evolution of loess landforms.展开更多
Human beings use hierarchies to simplify their conceptual models of reality and to perform reasoning more efficiently. Hierarchical structures are conceptually imposed on space and allow performance of complex tasks i...Human beings use hierarchies to simplify their conceptual models of reality and to perform reasoning more efficiently. Hierarchical structures are conceptually imposed on space and allow performance of complex tasks in very large contexts easily. Hierarchical spatial reasoning is an important method for solving spatial problems. This paper briefly discusses the definition and frame of hierarchical spatial reasoning and its application to way-finding of road networks.展开更多
In industry,the defective point data often make most surface reconstruction methods suffer from inherent problems that some specific aided information is difficult to obtain. To solve the problem,a novel implicit reco...In industry,the defective point data often make most surface reconstruction methods suffer from inherent problems that some specific aided information is difficult to obtain. To solve the problem,a novel implicit reconstruction method without any such information is proposed. This approach extends morphological operations into 3D space and provides an improved procedure to construct off-set gradient functions for indirect approximation. By this method,the dual relative functions guarantee a minimal crust surrounding the point data. They can generate a smooth and watertight resulting surface,filling holes and merging overlapping samples reasonably. Compared with other existing methods,the proposed method is better suited to handle defective point clouds in a convenient and efficient manner. The feasibility and effectiveness of the method are demonstrated through a series of practical examples.展开更多
We compute the Hodge numbers of the polarised(pure) variation of Hodge structure V = grn-1WRn-1f!Z of the Landau-Ginzburg model f:Y → C mirror-dual to a weighted projective space wPn in terms of a variant of Reid'...We compute the Hodge numbers of the polarised(pure) variation of Hodge structure V = grn-1WRn-1f!Z of the Landau-Ginzburg model f:Y → C mirror-dual to a weighted projective space wPn in terms of a variant of Reid's age function of the anticanonical cone over wPn.This implies,for instance,that wPn has canonical singularities if and only if hn-1,0V = 1.We state a conjectural formula for the Hodge numbers of general hypergeometric variations.We show that a general fibre of the Landau-Ginzburg model is birational to a Calabi-Yau variety if and only if a general anticanonical section of wP is Calabi-Yau.We analyse the 104 weighted 3-spaces with canonical singularities,and show that a general anticanonical section is not a K3 surface exactly in those 9 cases where a generic fibre of the Landau-Ginzburg model is an elliptic surface of Kodaira dimension 1.展开更多
The environmental factors that influence tree-grass abundances in tropical savanna and grasslands are not well understood,particularly for woodland-grassland mosaics in humid zones.We studied the effects of abiotic an...The environmental factors that influence tree-grass abundances in tropical savanna and grasslands are not well understood,particularly for woodland-grassland mosaics in humid zones.We studied the effects of abiotic and spatial variables on woody and herbaceous species distributions in a Terai ecosystem of northeastern India.We evaluated the importance of climatic and non-climatic factors that maintain variable tree-grass ratios across the landscape,and also accounted for spatial connectivity and dispersal.We measured species abundances of woody and herbaceous plant species in 134 plots with each 30 m×30 m in a 519 km^(2)protected Terai habitat,and derived several climatic and non-climatic environmental factors.We constructed variables based on different models of spatial connectivity among sites,to test their influence on species abundances.We then used redundancy analyses and variation partitioning to quantify the importance of environmental variables and spatial structure on variation in tree-grass abundances.We found that environmental variables including rainfall,fire,water stress,topography and soil nutrients had statistically significant effects on species abundance and tree-grass ratios.Spatial structure was significant,and the best spatial model was an inverse distance-weighted model with linkage extending to 23.5 km,indicating weak dispersal limitation.About 21%of the variation in species abundance was explained by the selected environmental and spatial factors.The results indicate that dynamic plant communities in which spatial-temporal variation in environmental factors may drive stochasticity in species distribution and abundance,thus dominantly influencing on the vegetation mosaic.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 10432030)the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 20060401071)the Program for New Century Excellent Talent in University of China (No. NCET-05-0510)
文摘Semi-analytical elasticity solutions for bending of angle-ply laminates in cylindrical bending are presented using the state-space-based differential quadrature method (SSDQM). Partial differential state equation is derived from the basic equations of elasticity based on the state space concept. Then, the differential quadrature (DQ) technique is introduced to discretize the longitu- dinal domain of the plate so that a series of ordinary differential state equations are obtained at the discrete points. Meanwhile, the edge constrained conditions are handled directly using the stress and displacement components without the Saint-Venant principle. The thickness domain is solved analytically based on the state space formalism along with the continuity conditions at interfaces. The present method is validated by comparing the results to the exact solutions of Pagano’s problem. Numerical results for fully clamped thick laminates are presented, and the influences of ply angle on stress distributions are discussed.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.10562002the Natural Science Foundation of Inner Mongolia under Grant No.200508010103
文摘In this paper,the results of spectral description and invertibility of upper triangle infinite-dimensionalHamiltonian operators with a diagonal domain are given.By the above results,it is proved that the infinite-dimensionalHamiltonian operator associated with plane elasticity equations without the body force is invertible,and the spectrumof which is non-empty and is a subset of R.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40930531, 41171320)the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2011AA120303)Open Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System (Grant No. 2010KF0002SA)
文摘The influence of pre-quaternary underlying terrain on the formation of loess landforms, i.e., the geomorphological inheritance issue, is a focus in studies of loess landforms. On the basis of multi-source information, we used GIS spatial analysis methods to construct a simulated digital elevation model of a pre-quaternary paleotopographic surface in a severe soil erosion area of the Loess Plateau. To reveal the spatial relationship between underlying paleotopography and modern terrain, an XY scatter diagram, hypsometric curve, gradient and concavity of terrain profiles are used in the experiments. The experiments show that the altitude, gradient and concavity results have significant linear positive correlation between both terrains, which shows a relatively strong landform inheritance relationship, particularly in the intact and complete loess deposit areas. Despite the current surface appearing somewhat changed from the original shape of the underlying terrain under different erosion forces, we reveal that the modern terrain generally smoothes the topographic relief of underlying terrain in the loess deposition process. Our results deepen understanding of the characteristics of geomorphological inheritance in the formation and evolution of loess landforms.
基金Supported by the National 863 Program of China (No.2006AA12 z202)
文摘Human beings use hierarchies to simplify their conceptual models of reality and to perform reasoning more efficiently. Hierarchical structures are conceptually imposed on space and allow performance of complex tasks in very large contexts easily. Hierarchical spatial reasoning is an important method for solving spatial problems. This paper briefly discusses the definition and frame of hierarchical spatial reasoning and its application to way-finding of road networks.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Fundation of China (Grant No. 50835004)
文摘In industry,the defective point data often make most surface reconstruction methods suffer from inherent problems that some specific aided information is difficult to obtain. To solve the problem,a novel implicit reconstruction method without any such information is proposed. This approach extends morphological operations into 3D space and provides an improved procedure to construct off-set gradient functions for indirect approximation. By this method,the dual relative functions guarantee a minimal crust surrounding the point data. They can generate a smooth and watertight resulting surface,filling holes and merging overlapping samples reasonably. Compared with other existing methods,the proposed method is better suited to handle defective point clouds in a convenient and efficient manner. The feasibility and effectiveness of the method are demonstrated through a series of practical examples.
文摘We compute the Hodge numbers of the polarised(pure) variation of Hodge structure V = grn-1WRn-1f!Z of the Landau-Ginzburg model f:Y → C mirror-dual to a weighted projective space wPn in terms of a variant of Reid's age function of the anticanonical cone over wPn.This implies,for instance,that wPn has canonical singularities if and only if hn-1,0V = 1.We state a conjectural formula for the Hodge numbers of general hypergeometric variations.We show that a general fibre of the Landau-Ginzburg model is birational to a Calabi-Yau variety if and only if a general anticanonical section of wP is Calabi-Yau.We analyse the 104 weighted 3-spaces with canonical singularities,and show that a general anticanonical section is not a K3 surface exactly in those 9 cases where a generic fibre of the Landau-Ginzburg model is an elliptic surface of Kodaira dimension 1.
基金We thank the UNESCO World Heritage Sites Program and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service Tiger Conservation Grant Program(F12AP00312)for financial support to carry out this work.
文摘The environmental factors that influence tree-grass abundances in tropical savanna and grasslands are not well understood,particularly for woodland-grassland mosaics in humid zones.We studied the effects of abiotic and spatial variables on woody and herbaceous species distributions in a Terai ecosystem of northeastern India.We evaluated the importance of climatic and non-climatic factors that maintain variable tree-grass ratios across the landscape,and also accounted for spatial connectivity and dispersal.We measured species abundances of woody and herbaceous plant species in 134 plots with each 30 m×30 m in a 519 km^(2)protected Terai habitat,and derived several climatic and non-climatic environmental factors.We constructed variables based on different models of spatial connectivity among sites,to test their influence on species abundances.We then used redundancy analyses and variation partitioning to quantify the importance of environmental variables and spatial structure on variation in tree-grass abundances.We found that environmental variables including rainfall,fire,water stress,topography and soil nutrients had statistically significant effects on species abundance and tree-grass ratios.Spatial structure was significant,and the best spatial model was an inverse distance-weighted model with linkage extending to 23.5 km,indicating weak dispersal limitation.About 21%of the variation in species abundance was explained by the selected environmental and spatial factors.The results indicate that dynamic plant communities in which spatial-temporal variation in environmental factors may drive stochasticity in species distribution and abundance,thus dominantly influencing on the vegetation mosaic.