Análise do comportamento dinâmico de uma plataforma sísmica e de um pórtico em betão armado e a sua evolução com o dano acumulado

Trabalho de Dissertação de Natureza Científica para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Civil na Área de Especialização em Estruturas

Projeto de fundações e estrutura de um edifício em Lisboa

Trabalho de Projeto para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Civil na Área de Especialização em Estruturas

Integer and Fractional Order Entropy Analysis of Earthquake Data-series

This paper studies the statistical distributions of worldwide earthquakes from year 1963 up to year 2012. A Cartesian grid, dividing Earth into geographic regions, is considered. Entropy and the Jensen–Shannon divergence are used to analyze and compare real-world data. Hierarchical clustering and multi-dimensional scaling techniques are adopted for data visualization. Entropy-based indices have the advantage of leading to a single parameter expressing the relationships between the seismic data. Classical and generalized (fractional) entropy and Jensen–Shannon divergence are tested. The generalized measures lead to a clear identification of patterns embedded in the data and contribute to better understand earthquake distributions.

AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK FOR SONAR TARGET DETECTION

Neural Network has emerged as the topic of the day. The spectrum of its application is as wide as from ECG noise filtering to seismic data analysis and from elementary particle detection to electronic music composition. The focal point of the proposed work is an application of a massively parallel connectionist model network for detection of a sonar target. This task is segmented into: (i) generation of training patterns from sea noise that contains radiated noise of a target, for teaching the network;(ii) selection of suitable network topology and learning algorithm and (iii) training of the network and its subsequent testing where the network detects, in unknown patterns applied to it, the presence of the features it has already learned in. A three-layer perceptron using backpropagation learning is initially subjected to a recursive training with example patterns (derived from sea ambient noise with and without the radiated noise of a target). On every presentation, the error in the output of the network is propagated back and the weights and the bias associated with each neuron in the network are modified in proportion to this error measure. During this iterative process, the network converges and extracts the target features which get encoded into its generalized weights and biases.In every unknown pattern that the converged network subsequently confronts with, it searches for the features already learned and outputs an indication for their presence or absence. This capability for target detection is exhibited by the response of the network to various test patterns presented to it.Three network topologies are tried with two variants of backpropagation learning and a grading of the performance of each combination is subsequently made.

Capacidad de respuesta hospitalaria distrital en Bogotá ante un evento con múltiples victimas

Los hospitales son el pilar fundamental para la atención de las víctimas de situaciones de emergencia o desastre. Las instituciones de salud son consideradas indispensables para la población, por lo que deben estar preparadas para funcionar no solo en condiciones normales sino en situaciones de alerta, como suele suceder en desastres de origen natural como los sismos. La relevancia de la problemática, radica en que de acuerdo con la amenaza sísmica de Colombia, Bogotá se encuentra en una zona de amenaza sísmica intermedia, los actuales eventos naturales como el terremoto de Haití con un saldo de 300.000 muertos y más de 700.000 mil heridos, y el de Chile, nos hace pensar en la importancia de la preparación hospitalaria ante un evento con múltiples víctimas como lo es un sismo. El Objetivo general del estudio es identificar la capacidad de respuesta hospitalaria distrital en Bogotá ante un evento con múltiples víctimas (terremoto). Además se identificaran las oportunidades de mejora para optimizar la respuesta hospitalaria de acuerdo a su nivel de atención. La Investigación se realizó por medio de un estudio de corte transversal, en donde se tomó una muestra de la red hospitalaria Distrital por conveniencia, bajo la aplicación de una encuesta dirigida. Los resultados fueron recopilados en una base de datos de Excel 2013, y fueron analizados bajo un software estadístico, STATA 12.0, donde se evaluaron variables, categóricas, nominales y cuantitativas. Como resultados se encontraron un porcentaje de ocupación de más del 100% en el 25% de los hospitales. Los 16 hospitales encuestados cuentan con comité hospitalario de emergencias, así como también con la elaboración de planes de emergencia y la revisión e implementación de estos. El 50% de los hospitales contemplan dentro su estructura de plan de emergencias, el sistema comando de incidentes; Sólo el 18.8% de los hospitales cuentan con reforzamiento estructural, y el 81,2% de los hospitales refieren tener una cooperación con organizaciones locales o externas. Solo 4 de los 16 hospitales cuentan con protocolos de diagnóstico y tratamiento médico en desastres. El plan de contingencia para un Sismo, es el plan bandera de todos los hospitales dado el esfuerzo por parte de la secretaria de salud y de FOPAE en información y capacitación en todo el Distrito, es por eso que el 93,85 de todos los hospitales cuentan con este plan. Al realizar el análisis general, la red hospitalaria no está en capacidad de una adecuada respuesta en caso de un evento con múltiples víctimas, en el escenario de un sismo de gran magnitud, teniendo en cuenta el porcentaje de ocupación actual donde el 25% de la red hospitalaria distrital cuenta con sobrecupo y el 50% se encuentra a tope de su capacidad instalada. En cuanto a la capacidad de respuesta, no se cuenta con protocolos de atención; Haciendo una evaluación según los niveles de atención, solo los hospitales de III nivel estarían medianamente preparados y con capacidad de respuesta ante un evento con víctimas en masa.

Kinetic energy analysis of the response of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation to CO2-forced climate change

Atmosphere–ocean general circulation models (AOGCMs) predict a weakening of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) in response to anthropogenic forcing of climate, but there is a large model uncertainty in the magnitude of the predicted change. The weakening of the AMOC is generally understood to be the result of increased buoyancy input to the north Atlantic in a warmer climate, leading to reduced convection and deep water formation. Consistent with this idea, model analyses have shown empirical relationships between the AMOC and the meridional density gradient, but this link is not direct because the large-scale ocean circulation is essentially geostrophic, making currents and pressure gradients orthogonal. Analysis of the budget of kinetic energy (KE) instead of momentum has the advantage of excluding the dominant geostrophic balance. Diagnosis of the KE balance of the HadCM3 AOGCM and its low-resolution version FAMOUS shows that KE is supplied to the ocean by the wind and dissipated by viscous forces in the global mean of the steady-state control climate, and the circulation does work against the pressure-gradient force, mainly in the Southern Ocean. In the Atlantic Ocean, however, the pressure-gradient force does work on the circulation, especially in the high-latitude regions of deep water formation. During CO2-forced climate change, we demonstrate a very good temporal correlation between the AMOC strength and the rate of KE generation by the pressure-gradient force in 50–70°N of the Atlantic Ocean in each of nine contemporary AOGCMs, supporting a buoyancy-driven interpretation of AMOC changes. To account for this, we describe a conceptual model, which offers an explanation of why AOGCMs with stronger overturning in the control climate tend to have a larger weakening under CO2 increase.

Kinetic energy analysis of the response of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation to CO2-forced climate change

Atmosphere–ocean general circulation models (AOGCMs) predict a weakening of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) in response to anthropogenic forcing of climate, but there is a large model uncertainty in the magnitude of the predicted change. The weakening of the AMOC is generally understood to be the result of increased buoyancy input to the north Atlantic in a warmer climate, leading to reduced convection and deep water formation. Consistent with this idea, model analyses have shown empirical relationships between the AMOC and the meridional density gradient, but this link is not direct because the large-scale ocean circulation is essentially geostrophic, making currents and pressure gradients orthogonal. Analysis of the budget of kinetic energy (KE) instead of momentum has the advantage of excluding the dominant geostrophic balance. Diagnosis of the KE balance of the HadCM3 AOGCM and its low-resolution version FAMOUS shows that KE is supplied to the ocean by the wind and dissipated by viscous forces in the global mean of the steady-state control climate, and the circulation does work against the pressure-gradient force, mainly in the Southern Ocean. In the Atlantic Ocean, however, the pressure-gradient force does work on the circulation, especially in the high-latitude regions of deep water formation. During CO2-forced climate change, we demonstrate a very good temporal correlation between the AMOC strength and the rate of KE generation by the pressure-gradient force in 50–70°N of the Atlantic Ocean in each of nine contemporary AOGCMs, supporting a buoyancy-driven interpretation of AMOC changes. To account for this, we describe a conceptual model, which offers an explanation of why AOGCMs with stronger overturning in the control climate tend to have a larger weakening under CO2 increase

Induced seismicity in the Castarthao reservoir, NE Brazil - Preliminary results

The Castanhao reservoir was built in the state of Ceara, a dry region in Northeastern Brazil, to regulate the flow of the Jaguaribe River, for irrigation, and for power generation. It is an earth-filled dam, 60 m high, with a water capacity of 4.5 x 10(9) m(3). The seismicity in the area has been monitored since 1998, with a few interruptions, using one analog or one digital station and, during a few periods, a three-station network. The first earthquakes likely to be induced events were detected in 2003, when the water level was about 20 in high. In early 2004 a very heavy rainfall season quickly filled the reservoir. Shortly after, an increase in the seismic activity occurred and many micro-earthquakes were recorded. We suggest that this activity resulted from an increase in pore pressure due to undrained response. Therefore, we may classify this cluster of microearthquakes as ""initial seismicity."" We deployed a network with four analog stations in the area, following this activity, to determine the epicentral zone. At least three epicentral areas under the reservoir were detected. The spatio-temporal analysis of the available data revealed that the seismicity occurs in clusters and that these were activated at different periods. We identified four sets of faults (N-S-, E-W-, NW-SE-, and NE-SW-oriented), some of which moved in shallow crustal levels and as recently as the Quaternary (1.8 Ma). Under the present-day stress regime, the last two sets moved as strike-slip structures. We suggest a possible correlation between dormant faults and the observed induced seismicity. (c) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Caracterização geomorfológica e paleogeográfica da plataforma continental adjacente a foz do Rio Apodi-Mossoró, RN/Brasil

The brazilian marginal basins have a huge potential to generate and accumulate petroleum. Incised valleys which are eroded in response to a fall of relative sea level are related to potential reservoir as well, modern drowned-valley estuaries serve as harbors to petroleum and salt industries, fisheries, waste-disposal sites and recreational areas for a significant fraction of the world s population. The combined influence of these factors has produced a dramatic increase in research on modern and ancient incised-valley systems. This research is one expression of this interest. The integrated use of satellites images and high resolution seismic (bathymetry, sides scan sonar) was used on the Apodi River mouth-RN to characterizes the continental shelf This area is located at the Potiguar Basin in the NE Brazilian Equatorial Atlantic margin. Through bathymetric and side scan sonar data processing, a digital Terrain Model was developed, and a detailed geomorphologic analysis was performed. In this way was possible to recognize the geomorphologic framework and differents sismofacies, which may influence this area. A channel extending from the ApodiMossoró river mouth to the shelf edge dominates the investigated area. This structure can be correlated with the former river valley developed during the late Pleistocene sea level fall. This channel has two main directions (NW-SE and NE-SW) probably controlled by the Potiguar Basin structures. The western margin of the channel is relatively steep and pronounced whereas the eastern margin consists only of a gentle slope. Longitudinal bedforms and massive ridges also occur. The first are formed doe to the shelf sediment rework and the reef-like structures probably are relics of submerged beachrock-lines indicating past shoreline positions during the deglacial sea-level rise. The sub-bottom seismic data allow the identification of different sismic patterns and a marcant discontinuity, interpreted as the Upper

Structural real time control using fluid magnetorheologic damper

In the last decades there was a great development in the study of control systems to attenuate the harmful effect of natural events in great structures, as buildings and bridges. Magnetorheological fluid (MR), that is an intelligent material, has been considered in many proposals of project for these controllers. This work presents the controller design using feedback of states through LMI (Linear Matrix Inequalities) approach. The experimental test were carried out in a structure with two degrees of freedom with a connected shock absorber MR. Experimental tests were realized in order to specify the features of this semi-active controller. In this case, there exist states that are not measurable, so the feedback of the states involves the project of an estimator. The coupling of the MR damper causes a variation in dynamics properties, so an identification methods, based on experimental input/output signal was used to compare with the numerical application. The identification method of Prediction Error Methods - (PEM) was used to find the physical characteristics of the system through realization in modal space of states. This proposal allows the project of a semi-active control, where the main characteristic is the possibility of the variation of the damping coefficient.

Aplicação de deconvolução homomórfica a dados sísmicos

Um registro sísmico é frequentemente representado como a convolução de um pulso-fonte com a resposta do meio ao impulso, relacionada ao caminho da propagação. O processo de separação destes dois componentes da convolução é denominado deconvolução. Existe uma variedade de aproximações para o desenvolvimento de uma deconvolução. Uma das mais comuns é o uso da filtragem linear inversa, ou seja, o processamento do sinal composto, através de um filtro linear, cuja resposta de frequência é a recíproca da transformada de Fourier de um dos componentes do sinal. Obviamente, a fim de usarmos a filtragem inversa, tais componentes devem ser conhecidas ou estimadas. Neste trabalho, tratamos da aplicação a sinais sísmicos, de uma técnica de deconvolução não linear, proposta por Oppenheim (1965), a qual utiliza a teoria de uma classe de sistemas não lineares, que satisfazem um princípio generalizado de superposição, denominados de sistemas homomórficos. Tais sistemas são particularmente úteis na separação de sinais que estão combinados através da operação de convolução. O algoritmo da deconvolução homomórfica transforma o processo de convolução em uma superposição aditiva de seus componentes, com o resultado de que partes simples podem ser separadas mais facilmente. Esta classe de técnicas de filtragem representa uma generalização dos problemas de filtragem linear. O presente método oferece a considerável vantagem de que não é necessário fazer qualquer suposição prévia sobre a natureza do pulso sísmico fonte, ou da resposta do meio ao impulso, não requerendo assim, as considerações usuais de que o pulso seja de fase-mínima e que a distribuição dos impulsos seja aleatória, embora a qualidade dos resultados obtidos pela análise homomórfica seja muito sensível à razão sinal/ruído, como demonstrado.

Caracterização dos reservatórios do grupo Macaé no Campo de Garoupa - Bacia de Campos - por meio de interpretação sísmica e perfis de poço

The study area is the Garoupa Field, located 75 km from the coast of Rio de Janeiro in bathymetric elevation of 125 m and it is the first important offshore discovery of the Campos Basin with hydrocarbon production in the Albian carbonates. The high significance of carbonate rock reservoirs for the global oil industry and its degree of complexity, combined with the fact that the Garoupa Field is a mature field, make this research project interesting to develop a re-exploratory vision of the study area. The objective of this paper is to characterize the physical properties of the Macae Group reservoirs in the Garoupa Field through well correlation techniques, petrophysical analysis and seismic interpretation (3D), in order to evaluate qualitatively and quantitatively the response of geophysical data to the presence of carbonate rock reservoirs. From the analysis of well profiles (gamma ray, resistivity, density and sonic) it was possible to identify six reservoir levels in the Quissamã Formation. As a result, the reservoirs have good correlation between the wells in the Garoupa Field and show lateral facies variation. In the seismic interpretation, structural contour maps were generated in time (ms) from the top of the Macae Group and two horizons that correspond to the reservoir levels. These maps show that the oil producing area of this field is a structural high located at the west of the interpreted seismic cube, and it was classified as a rollover limited by lateral faults forming a horst. The seismic attribute maps show a good response to the reservoirs of the Garoupa Field because they are associated with amplitude anomalies, verified by the correlation between the physical properties of the reservoir rock and seismic data through cross plots, with emphasis in a linear correlation between the resistivity profile and the values of Maximum Absolute Amplitude and RMS Amplitude attributes

Interplay of Late Cenozoic Siliciclastic Supply and Carbonate Response on the Southeast Florida Platform

High-resolution seismic-reflection data collected along the length of the Caloosahatchee River in southwestern Florida have been correlated to nannofossil biostratigraphy and strontium-isotope chemostratigraphy at six continuously cored boreholes. These data are interpreted to show a major Late Miocene(?) to Early Pliocene fluvial– deltaic depositional system that prograded southward across the carbonate Florida Platform, interrupting nearly continuous carbonate deposition since early in the Cretaceous. Connection of the platform top to a continental source of siliciclastics and significant paleotopography combined to focus accumulation of an immense supply of siliciclastics on the southeastern part of the Florida Platform. The remarkably thick (> 100 m), sand-rich depositional system, which is characterized by clinoformal progradation, filled in deep accommodation, while antecedent paleotopography directed deltaic progradation southward within the middle of the present-day Florida Peninsula. The deltaic depositional system may have prograded about 200 km southward to the middle and upper Florida Keys, where Late Miocene to Pliocene siliciclastics form the foundation of the Quaternary carbonate shelf and shelf margin of the Florida Keys. These far-traveled siliciclastic deposits filled accommodation on the southeastern part of the Florida Platform so that paleobathymetry was sufficiently shallow to allow Quaternary recovery of carbonate sedimentation in the area of southern peninsular Florida and the Florida Keys.

Modellazione numerica del comportamento di una struttura in muratura

In questi ultimi anni il tema della sicurezza sismica degli edifici storici in muratura ha assunto particolare rilievo in quanto a partire soprattutto dall’ordinanza 3274 del 2003, emanata in seguito al sisma che colpì il Molise nel 2002, la normativa ha imposto un monitoraggio ed una classificazione degli edifici storici sotto tutela per quanto riguarda la vulnerabilità sismica (nel 2008, quest’anno, scade il termine per attuare quest’opera di classificazione). Si è posto per questo in modo più urgente il problema dello studio del comportamento degli edifici storici (non solo quelli che costituiscono monumento, ma anche e soprattutto quelli minori) e della loro sicurezza. Le Linee Guida di applicazione dell’Ordinanza 3274 nascono con l’intento di fornire strumenti e metodologie semplici ed efficaci per affrontare questo studio nei tempi previsti. Il problema si pone in modo particolare per le chiese, presenti in grande quantità sul territorio italiano e di cui costituiscono gran parte del patrimonio culturale; questi edifici, composti di solito da grandi elementi murari, non presentano comportamento scatolare, mancando orizzontamenti, elementi di collegamento efficace e muri di spina interni e sono particolarmente vulnerabili ad azioni sismiche; presentano inoltre un comportamento strutturale a sollecitazioni orizzontali che non può essere colto con un approccio globale basato, ad esempio, su un’analisi modale lineare: non ci sono modi di vibrare che coinvolgano una sufficiente parte di massa della struttura; si hanno valori dei coefficienti di partecipazione dei varii modi di vibrare minori del 10% (in generale molto più bassi). Per questo motivo l’esperienza e l’osservazione di casi reali suggeriscono un approccio di studio degli edifici storici sacri in muratura attraverso l’analisi della sicurezza sismica dei cosiddetti “macroelementi” in cui si può suddividere un edificio murario, i quali sono elementi che presentano un comportamento strutturale autonomo. Questo lavoro si inserisce in uno studio più ampio iniziato con una tesi di laurea dal titolo “Analisi Limite di Strutture in Muratura. Teoria e Applicazione all'Arco Trionfale” (M. Temprati), che ha studiato il comportamento dell’arco trionfale della chiesa collegiata di Santa Maria del Borgo a San Nicandro Garganico (FG). Suddividere un edificio in muratura in più elementi è il metodo proposto nelle Linee Guida, di cui si parla nel primo capitolo del presente lavoro: la vulnerabilità delle strutture può essere studiata tramite il moltiplicatore di collasso quale parametro in grado di esprimere il livello di sicurezza sismica. Nel secondo capitolo si illustra il calcolo degli indici di vulnerabilità e delle accelerazioni di danno per la chiesa di Santa Maria del Borgo, attraverso la compilazione delle schede dette “di II livello”, secondo quanto indicato nelle Linee Guida. Nel terzo capitolo viene riportato il calcolo del moltiplicatore di collasso a ribaltamento della facciata della chiesa. Su questo elemento si è incentrata l’attenzione nel presente lavoro. A causa della complessità dello schema strutturale della facciata connessa ad altri elementi dell’edificio, si è fatto uso del codice di calcolo agli elementi finiti ABAQUS. Della modellazione del materiale e del settaggio dei parametri del software si è discusso nel quarto capitolo. Nel quinto capitolo si illustra l’analisi condotta tramite ABAQUS sullo stesso schema della facciata utilizzato per il calcolo manuale nel capitolo tre: l’utilizzo combinato dell’analisi cinematica e del metodo agli elementi finiti permette per esempi semplici di convalidare i risultati ottenibili con un’analisi non-lineare agli elementi finiti e di estenderne la validità a schemi più completi e più complessi. Nel sesto capitolo infatti si riportano i risultati delle analisi condotte con ABAQUS su schemi strutturali in cui si considerano anche gli elementi connessi alla facciata. Si riesce in questo modo ad individuare con chiarezza il meccanismo di collasso di più facile attivazione per la facciata e a trarre importanti informazioni sul comportamento strutturale delle varie parti, anche in vista di un intervento di ristrutturazione e miglioramento sismico.

Shallow and deep deformation in northern Apennines region using seismological data

For its particular position and the complex geological history, the Northern Apennines has been considered as a natural laboratory to apply several kinds of investigations. By the way, it is complicated to joint all the knowledge about the Northern Apennines in a unique picture that explains the structural and geological emplacement that produced it. The main goal of this thesis is to put together all information on the deformation - in the crust and at depth - of this region and to describe a geodynamical model that takes account of it. To do so, we have analyzed the pattern of deformation in the crust and in the mantle. In both cases the deformation has been studied using always information recovered from earthquakes, although using different techniques. In particular the shallower deformation has been studied using seismic moment tensors information. For our purpose we used the methods described in Arvidsson and Ekstrom (1998) that allowing the use in the inversion of surface waves [and not only of the body waves as the Centroid Moment Tensor (Dziewonski et al., 1981) one] allow to determine seismic source parameters for earthquakes with magnitude as small as 4.0. We applied this tool in the Northern Apennines and through this activity we have built up the Italian CMT dataset (Pondrelli et al., 2006) and the pattern of seismic deformation using the Kostrov (1974) method on a regular grid of 0.25 degree cells. We obtained a map of lateral variations of the pattern of seismic deformation on different layers of depth, taking into account the fact that shallow earthquakes (within 15 km of depth) in the region occur everywhere while most of events with a deeper hypocenter (15-40 km) occur only in the outer part of the belt, on the Adriatic side. For the analysis of the deep deformation, i.e. that occurred in the mantle, we used the anisotropy information characterizing the structure below the Northern Apennines. The anisotropy is an earth properties that in the crust is due to the presence of aligned fluid filled cracks or alternating isotropic layers with different elastic properties while in the mantle the most important cause of seismic anisotropy is the lattice preferred orientation (LPO) of the mantle minerals as the olivine. This last is a highly anisotropic mineral and tends to align its fast crystallographic axes (a-axis) parallel to the astenospheric flow as a response to finite strain induced by geodynamic processes. The seismic anisotropy pattern of a region is measured utilizing the shear wave splitting phenomenon (that is the seismological analogue to optical birefringence). Here, to do so, we apply on teleseismic earthquakes recorded on stations located in the study region, the Sileny and Plomerova (1996) approach. The results are analyzed on the basis of their lateral and vertical variations to better define the earth structure beneath Northern Apennines. We find different anisotropic domains, a Tuscany and an Adria one, with a pattern of seismic anisotropy which laterally varies in a similar way respect to the seismic deformation. Moreover, beneath the Adriatic region the distribution of the splitting parameters is so complex to request an appropriate analysis. Therefore we applied on our data the code of Menke and Levin (2003) which allows to look for different models of structures with multilayer anisotropy. We obtained that the structure beneath the Po Plain is probably even more complicated than expected. On the basis of the results obtained for this thesis, added with those from previous works, we suggest that slab roll-back, which created the Apennines and opened the Tyrrhenian Sea, evolved in the north boundary of Northern Apennines in a different way from its southern part. In particular, the trench retreat developed primarily south of our study region, with an eastward roll-back. In the northern portion of the orogen, after a first stage during which the retreat was perpendicular to the trench, it became oblique with respect to the structure.