There is a need for fit-for-purpose maps for accurately depicting the types of seabed substrate and habitat and the properties of the seabed for the benefits of research, resource management, conservation and spatial planning. The aim of this study is to determine whether it is possible to predict substrate composition across a large area of seabed using legacy grain-size data and environmental...

the pseudo-elastic behavior of shape memory alloy (sma) truss and cantilever beam are investigated. brinson’s one-dimensional material model, which uses the twinned and detwinned martensite fractions separately as internal variables, is applied in the algorithm to establish the sma stress-strain characteristics. this material model also incorporates different young’s modulus for austenitic and ...

Benthic habitat maps, including maps of seabed sediments, have become critical spatial-decision support tools for marine ecological management and conservation. Despite the increasing recognition that environmental variables should be considered at multiple spatial scales, variables used in habitat mapping are often implemented at a single scale. The objective of this study was to evaluate the ...

Abstract. Landfast ice is a common coastal feature in the Arctic Ocean and around Antarctic continent. One contributing stabilizing mechanism grounding of sea ridges shallow water. Recently, scheme representing this effect on dynamics was developed order to improve simulation landfast by continuum-based models. This parameterization assumes that ridged keel thickness proportional mean thickness...

Geoacoustic inversion using a matched-field inversion algorithm is a well-established technique for estimating the geoacoustic parameters of the seabed. This paper demonstrates how parameter estimation can be affected by unknown or wishfully ignored random range dependence of the true environment when the inversion model is--for practicality--assumed to be range independent. Simulations with co...

The multiphase nature of the flow in porous media is characterized by hysteretic effects on the macroscopic level. These effects have a significant influence on the behavior of the whole system and therefore have to be taken into account. The aim of this subproject is to develop and implement models describing the hysteresis in the context of the CO2 sequestration process.The hysteresis relatio...

The modeling of deteriorating hysteretic behavior is becoming increasingly important, especially in the context of seismic analysis and design. This paper presents the development of a versatile smooth hysteretic model based on internal variables, with stiffness and strength deterioration and with pinching characteristics. The theoretical background, development, and implementation of the model...