scholarly journals Experimental analysis of gradient of negative temperature for polypropylene fiber concrete U-shaped girder

2020 ◽  
Vol 319 ◽  
pp. 06004
Author(s):  
Xu Dong ◽  
Fengkun Cui ◽  
Xiudong Li ◽  
Songji Xu

To study the negative temperature gradient models of a rail transit U-shaped girder during the winter season, a U-shaped rail transit girder was researched in Qingdao. The temperature field of the midspan section was observed for a 48-h period during the winter. The maximum vertical and horizontal temperature difference distributions were obtained, and the negative temperature gradient models for the winter were established. The results show that the vertical temperature gradient models of the web and bottom slab should be considered. The vertical temperature gradient model of the web is a piecewise function composed of exponential and linear functions. The vertical temperature gradient model of the bottom slab is an exponential function. The transverse temperature gradient of the web is obvious, whereas the transverse temperature gradient of the bottom slab is slight.

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 1980 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Zhao ◽  
Ling-Yu Zhou ◽  
Guang-Chao Zhang ◽  
Tian-Yu Wei ◽  
Akim D. Mahunon ◽  
...  

To study the temperature distribution in the China Railway Track System Type II ballastless slab track on a high-speed railway (HSR) bridge, a 1:4 scaled specimen of a simply-supported concrete box girder bridge with a ballastless track was constructed in laboratory. Through a rapid, extreme high temperature test in winter and a conventional high temperature test in summer, the temperature distribution laws in the track on the HSR bridge were studied, and the vertical and transverse temperature distribution trend was suggested for the track. Firstly, the extreme high temperature test results showed that the vertical temperature and the vertical temperature difference distribution in the track on HSR bridge were all nonlinear with three stages. Secondly, the extreme high temperature test showed that the transverse temperature distribution in the track was of quadratic parabolic nonlinear form, and the transverse temperature gradient in the bottom base was significantly higher than that of the other layers of the track. Thirdly, the three-dimensional temperature distribution in the track on HSR bridge was a nonlinear, three-stage surface. Furthermore, similar regularities were also obtained in the conventional high temperature test, in which the temperature span ranges were different from those of the extreme high temperature test. In addition, the conventional high temperature test also showed that under the natural environment conditions, the internal temperature gradient in the track layers changed periodically (over a period of 24 h).


1978 ◽  
Vol 35 (11) ◽  
pp. 1430-1433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen-Hwa Kwain ◽  
Robert W. McCauley

During their first 12 mo of life rainbow trout, Salmo gairdneri, preferred progressively cooler temperatures as they grew older; 19 °C was selected during the 1st mo and the selected temperature declined by intervals of 0.5 °C for each of the following months up to the 3rd mo. Fish swam higher in temperature gradients exposed to overhead illumination than in those in total darkness. This trend was reversed during the following 9 mo. These findings demonstrate the important role that age plays in the temperature preference of this species and the influence that overhead light may have on the distribution of fish in vertical gradients. Key words: preferred temperature, age, Salmo gairdneri, light gradients


The investigation of the upper air by means of balloons carrying self-recording instruments, which have furnished values for the atmospheric temperature up to heights between 15 and 20 kilometres, has revealed the existence of an abnormal change in the vertical temperature gradient. After a fairly uniform fall, with increasing altitude, of about 6° C. per kilometre, a height is reached above which the temperature changes very little, sometimes increasing, sometimes diminishing slowly. The phenomenon was first noticed by M. Teisserenc de Bort in a communication to the Société de Physique in June, 1899. He improved his apparatus and made further investigations, in many cases sending up the balloons by night to eliminate any possible insolation effects. He found the average height, at which the change began, to be about 11 kilometres. He discovered also that the height was greater near the centre of high pressure areas than in low pressure areas, the average heights for the two cases being 12-5 and 10 kilometres respectively. More recently he found that the height increased with approach towards the equator and that near the equator, ballons-sondes , ascending to 15 kilometres, had failed to reach this layer if it existed there. He proposed to call this layer, in which little temperature change occurred, the “Isothermal Layer of the Atmosphere,” and the name has been generally accepted.


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