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Experimental research of reinforced concrete buildings struck by debris flow in mountain areas of western China

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It’s very important to simulate impact load of debris flow effectively and to investigate dynamic response of architectures under dynamic impact of debris flow, which are necessary to design disaster mitigation construction. Firstly, reinforced concrete domestic architectures in mountain areas of western China had been chosen as main architecture style. The bearing load style and the destructed shape of reinforced framed construction impacted by discontinuous viscous debris flow were studied systematically. Secondly, Jiangjia Ravine debris flow valley in Yunnan Province, China had been chosen as research region. Utilizing based data from fieldwork and practical survey, the authors simulated and calculated theoretically impact force of discontinuous viscous debris flow. Thirdly, an impact data collecting system (IMHE IDCS) was designed and developed to fulfill designed simulation experiments. Finally, a series of impact test of researched structure models had been fulfilled. During experiment, the destructed shape and course of models were observed and the dynamic displacement data and main natural frequency data of models were collected and analyzed.

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Foundation item: Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (40201009 and 90201007) and Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Biography: ZHANG Yu(1970–), female, Associate professor, Ph.D., research direction: dynamics of debris flow and mountain hazards controlling engineering.

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Zhang, Y., Fangqiang, W. & Qing, W. Experimental research of reinforced concrete buildings struck by debris flow in mountain areas of western China. Wuhan Univ. J. of Nat. Sci. 12, 645–650 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11859-006-0339-z

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