简介:Combinedmulti-bodydynamicswithstructuraldynamics,anewdiscreteelementwithflexibleconnector,whichisapplicablefor3-Dbeamstructures,isdevelopedinthispaper.Boththegeneralizedelasticcoefficientmatrixoftheflexibleconnectorandthemassmatrixofdiscreteelementmaybeoff-diag-onalinageneralcase.Thezero-lengthrigidelementisintroducedtosimulatethenodeatwhichmultipleel-ementsarejointedtogether.Itmayalsobeeffectivewhentheaxesofadjacentelementsarenotinthesameline.Theexamplesforeigenvaluecalculationshowthatthemodelissuccessful.Itcanbeextendedtothegeometricnonlinearresponseanalysis.
简介:FattyacidcompositionsoftwostrainsofmarinediatomsNitzschiaclosterium(MACCB222)andChaetocerosgracilis(MACCB13)havebeenexamined.ThemicroalgaehavebeengrownatdifferentinitialNaNO3concentrations(75,375,750,1125,1500,1875mg/L)andharvestedatthelateexponentialphase.TheresultsbyonefactoranalysisofvarianceshowthattheNaNO3concentrationshavenosignificantinfluenceontherelativegrowthrateoftwostrainsofmarinediatoms;theinfluenceofNaNO3concentrationsonthefattyacidsdiffersfromspeciestospecies.Themajorfattyacidsoftwodiatomstrainsare14:0,16:0,16:ln-7and20:5n-3(EPA),B13alsohashighpercentageof20:4n-6(6.0~9.1%).
简介:Atime-domainmethodisappliedtosimulatenonlinearwavediffractionaroundasurfacepiercing3-Darbitrarybody.ThemethodinvolvestheapplicationofTaylorseriesexpansionsandtheuseofperturbationproceduretoestablishthecorrespondingboundaryvalueproblemswithrespecttoatime-independentfluiddomain.AboundaryelementmethodbasedonB-splineexpansionisusedtocalculatethewavefieldateachtimestep,andthefreesurfaceboundaryconditionissatisfiedtothesecondorderofwavesteepnessbyanumericalintegrationintime.Anartificialdampinglayerisadoptedonthefreesurfacefortheremovalofwavereflectionfromtheouterboundary.Asanillustration,themethodisusedtocomputethesecond-orderwaveforcesandrun-uponasurface-piercingcircularcylinder.Thepresentmethodisfoundtobeaccurate,computationallyefficient,andnumericallystable.