• ALGAE
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.289-301
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• 2016

Floating debris provides substrates for dispersal of organisms by ocean currents, including algae that thrive on plastics. The 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Tohuku, Japan resulted in large amounts of debris carried by the North Pacific Current to North America from 2012 to 2016. In 2015-2016, the plastics in the debris bore a complex biota including pink algal crusts. One sample (JAW4874) was isolated into culture and a three-gene phylogeny (psbA, rbcL, and SSU) indicated it was an unknown member of the red algal class Stylonematophyceae. It is a small pulvinate crust of radiating, branched, uniseriate filaments with cells containing a single centrally suspended nucleus and a single purple to pink, multi-lobed, parietal plastid lacking a pyrenoid. Cells can be released as spores that attach and germinate to form straight filaments by transverse apical cell divisions, and subsequent longitudinal and oblique intercalary divisions produce masses of lateral branches. This alga is named Tsunamia transpacifica gen. nov. et sp. nov. Sequencing of additional samples of red algal crusts on plastics revealed another undescribed Stylonematophycean species, suggesting that these algae may be frequent on drift oceanic plastics.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제42권6호
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• pp.831-847
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• 2012

Impact from water-borne debris during tsunami and flood events pose a potential threat to structures. Debris impact forces specified by current codes and standards are based on rigid body dynamics, leading to forces that are dependent on total debris mass. However, shipping containers and other debris are unlikely to be rigid compared to the walls, columns and other structures that they impact. The application of a simple one-dimensional model to obtain impact force magnitude and duration, based on acoustic wave propagation in a flexible projectile, is explored. The focus herein is on in-air impact. Based on small-scale experiments, the applicability of the model to predict actual impact forces is investigated. The tests show that the force and duration are reasonably well represented by the simple model, but they also show how actual impact differs from the ideal model. A more detailed three-dimensional finite element model is also developed to understand more clearly the physical phenomena involved in the experimental tests. The tests and the FE results reveal important characteristics of actual impact, knowledge of which can be used to guide larger scale experiments and detailed modeling. The one-dimensional model is extended to consider water-driven debris as well. When fluid is used to propel the 1-D model, an estimate of the 'added mass' effect is possible. In this extended model the debris impact force depends on the wave propagation in the two media, and the conditions under which the fluid increases the impact force are discussed.

• 한국건설순환자원학회논문집
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.590-595
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• 2020

본 연구에서는 해일표류선박의 충돌이 해일피난건물로 선정된 철근콘크리트 건축물의 안전성에 미치는 영향을 파악하기 위하여, 충돌속도, 선박의 질량 및 선박의 길이를 변수로 한 진자를 이용한 축소 충돌실험을 실시하여, 건축물의 응답에 영향을 미치는 최대 충돌력, 충돌시간, 충돌파형 형상, 반발계수 등에 대한 기본적인 물리량 변동추이를 상세히 평가하였다. 그 결과, 충돌파형 형상은 대부분의 실험결과에서 삼각형 분포가 나타났으나, 충돌실험체의 길이의 증가에 따라 사다리꼴에 가까워지는 것을 알 수 있었다. 이는 건축물의 응답에 영향을 미치는 충격량 (충돌력 파형의 면적)을 산정함에 있어 매우 중요한 결과이다. 또한 반발계수는 충돌속도의 대소에 관계없이 일정하나, 충돌체의 질량 및 길이에 의해 변화하며, 단위길이당 질량으로 정리하면 반발계수의 변동이 평가가능함을 알 수 있었다.