简介:Tofulfiltheneedofdevelopmentofoffshoreoilfloatingproductionsystem,theperformanceofturretassemblyinaninboardturretmooringsystemhasbeeninvestigatedinthepaper.Bymeansofsystematicevaluation,theoptimalstructureoftheturretforsingle-pointmooringsystemshasbeendetermined.Throughmodeltestsofaturretmooringsystem,severalgroupsofdatasuchasforces,momentsanddisplacementsunderdifferentenvironmentalconditionshavebeenobtained.Stressesandstrainsoftheturretstructurehavebeencalculatedbymeansofthefiniteelementmethodcorrespondingtothesituationinthemodelexperiment.Thestudyshowsthattheselectedturretstructureandthedesignedturretassemblyaretechnicallyfeasible.
简介:Microsatellitesorsimplesequencerepeats(SSR)functionwidelyandlocatedependentlyingenome.However,theircharacteristicsareoftenignoredduetothelackofgenomicsequencesofmostspecies.Kelp(Saccharinajaponica),abrownmacroalga,isextensivelyculturedinChina.Inthisstudy,thegenomeofS.japonicawassurveyedusinganIlluminasequencingplatform,anditsmicrosatelliteswerecharacterized.Thepreliminarilyassembledgenomewas469.4Mbinsize,withascaffoldN50of20529bp.Amongthe128370identifiedmicrosatellites,90671,25726and11973werefoundinintergenicregions,intronsandexons,averaging339.3,178.8and205.4microsatellitesperMb,respectively.ThesemicrosatellitesdistributedunevenlyinS.japonicagenome.Mononucleotidemotifswerethemostabundantinthegenome,whiletrinucleotideoneswerethemostprevalentinexons.Themicrosatelliteabundancedecreasedsignificantlywiththeincreaseofmotifrepeatnumbers,andthemicrosatelliteswithasmallnumberofrepeatsaccountedforahigherproportionoftheexonsthanthoseoftheintergenicregionsandintrons.C/G-richmotifsweremorecommoninexonsthaninintergenicregionsandintrons.ThesecharacteristicsofmicrosatellitesinS.japonicagenomemayassociatewiththeirfunctions,andultimatelytheiradaptationandevolution.Amongthe120140pairsofdesignedmicrosatelliteprimers,approximately75%werepredictedtobeabletoamplifyS.japonicaDNA.Thesemicrosatellitemarkerswillbeextremelyusefulforthegeneticbreedingandpopulationevolutionstudiesofkelp.
简介:RecentbathymetricchangesintheChangjiangEstuaryundertheinfluenceofartificialregulationengineeringsandbasinreservoirshavebeenanalyzedbasedonthemaritimechartssince1997andrecentfieldworks.Theresultsindicateaslighterosionofthechannelsintheupperandmiddleestuary,continuingdepositionandseawardmoveofthemouthbarcrestandintensifyingerosionatthenearshoreseabed.Itisnoteworthythatthemorphologicalevolutioncausedbyintensivehumanactivitiesdominatesoverthechangesfromnatureprocess.First,theriverbesareerodedoverallintheSouthBranch(SB),theSouthChannel(SC)andtheupperandmiddlereachesoftheNorthChannel(NC).Thenearshoreseabedoutsidetherivermouthisbeingerodedslightly,whichisattributedtothedecliningsedimentsupplyfromtheChangjiangBasinduetotheconstructionoftheThreeGorgesDamupstream.Thesedimentabovetheseabedisveryactiveandcoarsened,meanwhile,sandwavesarebecomingmoredistinct.Second,adepositionoccursintheNorthBrach(NB),themouthoftheNC,themouthbarsoftheNorthPassage(NP)andtheSouthPassage(SP)andespeciallythemainchanneloftheNP,whereitshowsamassivesiltationafterthedeepwaterwayproject.Thereasonsfortherecentchangesarenotonlythedynamicstructureinestuarinemouthbars,butalsothesupplyofsedimentresuspensioninalocalandoffshorearea.Meanwhile,thesevereerosionandsiltationinsomereachesisrelatedtotheconstructionofestuarineengineerings.ItisindicatedthattheChangjiangEstuaryisgraduallyself-adjustedandadaptingtothevaryingnaturalfactorsandintensivehumanactivities.Thestudyonthemechanismofself-regulationoftherecentbathymetricchangesintheChangjiangEstuaryhasimportantandpracticalsignificance.