This paper presents experimental and theoretical methods to study the damage layer evolution of a breakwater made with concrete hollow squares in marine environment.Wetting time was directly related to the performance...This paper presents experimental and theoretical methods to study the damage layer evolution of a breakwater made with concrete hollow squares in marine environment.Wetting time was directly related to the performance degradation of the breakwater by observation.The thickness of damage layer was detected by means of ultrasonic testing.Meanwhile,some samples drilled from concrete hollow squares were analyzed by SEM and XRD in order to illustrate the damage mechanism.Subsequently,a theoretical model containing wetting time ratio was established to simulate the damage layer evolution based on Fick’s second law,which could be suggested to predict the service life of concrete structures in marine environment.展开更多
Great progress has been made in study on dynamic behavior of the damaged structures subject to deterministic excitation.The stochastic response analysis of the damaged structures,however,has not yet attracted people...Great progress has been made in study on dynamic behavior of the damaged structures subject to deterministic excitation.The stochastic response analysis of the damaged structures,however,has not yet attracted people's attention.Taking the damaged elastic beams for example,the analysis procedure for stochastic response of the damaged structures subject to stochastic excitations is investigated in this paper.First,the damage constitutive relations and the corresponding damage evolution equation of one-dimensional elastic structures are briefly discussed.Second,the stochastic dynamic equation with respect to transverse displacement of the damaged elastic beams is deduced.The finite difference method and Newmark method are adopted to solve the stochastic partially-differential equation and corresponding boundary conditions.The stochastic response characteristic,damage evolution law,the effect of noise intensity on damage evolution and the first-passage time of damage are discussed in detail.The present work extends the research field of damaged structures,and the proposed procedure can be generalized to analyze the dynamic behavior of more complex structures,such as damaged plates and shells.展开更多
基金The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11832013,11772164)the National Basic Research Program of China(973 Program,2009CB623203)+1 种基金the Key Research Program of Society Development of Ningbo(2013C51007)K.C.Wong Magna Fund in Ningbo University.
文摘This paper presents experimental and theoretical methods to study the damage layer evolution of a breakwater made with concrete hollow squares in marine environment.Wetting time was directly related to the performance degradation of the breakwater by observation.The thickness of damage layer was detected by means of ultrasonic testing.Meanwhile,some samples drilled from concrete hollow squares were analyzed by SEM and XRD in order to illustrate the damage mechanism.Subsequently,a theoretical model containing wetting time ratio was established to simulate the damage layer evolution based on Fick’s second law,which could be suggested to predict the service life of concrete structures in marine environment.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11072076)
文摘Great progress has been made in study on dynamic behavior of the damaged structures subject to deterministic excitation.The stochastic response analysis of the damaged structures,however,has not yet attracted people's attention.Taking the damaged elastic beams for example,the analysis procedure for stochastic response of the damaged structures subject to stochastic excitations is investigated in this paper.First,the damage constitutive relations and the corresponding damage evolution equation of one-dimensional elastic structures are briefly discussed.Second,the stochastic dynamic equation with respect to transverse displacement of the damaged elastic beams is deduced.The finite difference method and Newmark method are adopted to solve the stochastic partially-differential equation and corresponding boundary conditions.The stochastic response characteristic,damage evolution law,the effect of noise intensity on damage evolution and the first-passage time of damage are discussed in detail.The present work extends the research field of damaged structures,and the proposed procedure can be generalized to analyze the dynamic behavior of more complex structures,such as damaged plates and shells.