JOINT PROGRAM
2nd
IASME/WSEAS International Conference on
ENERGY and ENVIRONMENT
(EE ’07)
Portoroz, Slovenia, May 15-17, 2007
Tuesday, May 15 2007
PLENARY LECTURE 1
Legal Regulation of the European Internal Market in Energy
Ms. Tina Krope
LL. M. (Master of Laws, University College London)
Ministry of Economy
Directorate for Foreign Economic Relations
Slovenia
Abstract: The process of liberalising the energy and gas market in Europe is something the EU has struggled with for the past 15 years. To establish an internal market in the EU electricity and gas sectors was a priority in the Single Market programme and Lisbon Agenda in March 2000 in improving European competitiveness. It is a stated aim of the European Commission, Member States, regulatory authorities, and others, to work towards the creation of a single, efficient and effectively competitive energy market.
There are a number of reasons that underpin the launching of single European energy market. The integration of markets is expected to lower the energy prices and generate several advantages, such as increased security of supply, the latter being a great concern of all the EU countries, because the European economy is steadily demanding more and more energy, essentially based on fossil fuels, which make up four-fifths of its total energy consumption, almost two-thirds of which it imports. In 30 years’ time, 90% of oil is likely to be imported; consequently, rising import ratios may lead to the risk of an interruption or difficulties in supply. The high oil and gas prices we faced recently have raised major questions regarding scarcity of these resources. The recognition that these resources are finite and that the current high prices are, on the other hand, not as relevant considering the fact that there are sufficient reserves for the next few decades. There are other relevant factors affecting the price such as the increased import dependency of import consuming countries. Secure and affordable supplies can no longer be taken for granted, as the global energy demand is increasing and the oil and gas reserves are declining. On one hand, it is argued that security of supply is an ongoing concern; nevertheless, an integrated and competitive internal energy market will more than likely deliver secure supply, via a larger and more flexible market, and competition-inspired efficiency gains, innovation and development. To deliver the common objectives of the EU - secure, sustainable and competitive energy - an approach based solely on 25 individual energy policies is not sufficient. After all, experiences from gas and electricity liberalisation, wherever it has taken place around the world, have always been positive, and are expected to be such in the EU as well.
The opening up of the markets to all non-domestic consumers from July 2004 and to all consumers in July 2007 requires a series of measures to be put in place to enable new operators, the drivers of competition, to enter the market and serve the very many new eligible customers. We will have to deal with a completely different scale of things, one of the crucial changes being the increased number of eligible customers from July 2007 onwards.
The aim of achieving a fully liberalised and integrated energy market with lower energy prices and improved security of supply is for the benefit of the consumers, and at the same time, potential investors in new projects require a stable regulatory framework and the assurance that they have equal access to all customers in the EU. Besides the transposition and implementation of the new Gas and Electricity Directives into national legislation of the 25 Member States, the task of ensuring compliance should not fall exclusively on Commission’s shoulders. In order for the consumers to have a de facto single European grid, the work of national regulatory authorities is of a great importance, and the work conducted through the European Regulators Group for Electricity and Gas (ERGEG); the benefits for the consumers and the rights enjoyed by the European citizens are formed through a constructive dialogue with public authorities within the context of good governance.
PLENARY LECTURE 2
Meteorological
Climate Change effect of the Ataturk Dam
in Turkey at Eastern Anatolia
Prof. Levent Yilmaz
Civil Engineering Department
Technical University of Istanbul
Maslak, 80626, Istanbul, Turkey
Abstract: In Turkey, the
significant amount of energy produced obtained of hydroelectrical power
stations. Water constructions such as dam’s reservoir in arid and semi-arid
regions effects each other with climate and hydrology of environment. Therefore
meteorological conditions have to be established and monitored at the
hydroelectrical power stations. Droughts are among the most significant natural
hazards that might damage human life and property under different meteorological
and environmental conditions. The simplest methodology of temporal climate
change assessment is the standardized precipitation index (SPI) which is used to
quantify the precipitation deficit for several time scales, for example time
averaging periods. The SPI is commonly used for the identification of various
climate change characteristics such as the rain duration change, magnitude
change, and intensity change at different standard truncation levels. The
relationships between the drought duration and magnitude are provided in the
form of scatter diagrams with the best straight-line fits. These are obtained
for different truncation levels. Precipitation based drought description has
been extended to triple-variable additionally including temperature and humidity
time series. Such contours can be prepared for any base precipitation value but
in this study average precipitation value is adopted as the truncation level. In
this study is related to construction of the most important main project in the
South-eastern Anatolia Project (GAP) area, the Ataturk Dam.
PLENARY LECTURE 3
SMA Structures
Computations
Prof. M. L. Boubakar
Laboratoire de Mecanique Appliquee Raymond Chaleat,
Institut FEMTO-ST, UMR-CNRS 6174
Universite de Franche-Comte, ENSMM, UTBM
24, rue de l’Epitaphe, 25000 Besancon
FRANCE
Abstract: The growing
interest in smart structures technologies has led in the last decades to the
formulation of a variety of constitutive models for shape memory alloys (SMA).
However, most of these models are so demanding from a computational standpoint
that, except some exceptions, their application has been limited to only
one-dimensional situations.
In this work attention is focused on a phenomenological model of isotropic pseudoelasticity emanating from that, and on its numerical integration. The constitutive model under consideration is formulated in the framework of internal variables theory of inelastic behaviours, namely, by defining the transition criteria determining the onset of phase transitions (SMA pseudoelasticity is a reversible behaviour associated with a stress-induced solid-solid phase transition from a parent phase called austenite to a product phase called martensite) in a way completely analogous to the loading functions of plasticity theory. Although consistent with classical rate-independent behaviour modelling, this approach requires, however, suitable modifications of numerical algorithms originally designed for elastoplasticity. Return mapping algorithms are discussed in detail hereafter. In order to perform finite strains analysis, a closed form of the proposed modelling for small strains is developed within the context a non-material rotating frame formulation. In this context, a constitutive frame is suggested to take non-proportional loading into account.
PLENARY LECTURE 4
Will we ever
tackle the Problem of Environmental Pollution?
Prof. Aart Sterkenburg
Laboratory for Ecological Risk Assessment
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment RIVM
P.O Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Abstract: In the past
decennia, the state of the Dutch environment has improved considerably, mainly
due to the acknowledgement by policy, in the seventies and the eighties, that
action had to be taken with respect to the worsening state of the air, soil, and
surface and ground water, and due to the subsequent regulations enforced in
later years. The latter came both from the national government and international
agreements. Many emissions of substances have diminished, especially of those
originating from sources that could be pointed to unambiguously as being
responsible for environmental pollution. Obvious examples are the switch to
unleaded petrol in order to prevent the release of toxic lead into the air, the
ban on the use of haloalkanes in the Montreal protocol in order to protect the
ozone layer, but also the direct measures, within the scope of REACH, that
Industry must take to prevent emissions.
Yet, worrying amounts of pollutants still enter the environment. In densely populated areas the problem of particulate matter in the air is extremely difficult to tackle, just as is the continuing pollution of the surface water by release of chemicals from sediments or the leaching of substances form the soil into the ground water. In most cases these processes can be traced back to the diffuse sources as registered in the E-PRTR database.
Nowadays it has become a challenge to consider ecology with sustainable economic growth. What price are we prepared to pay for an environment that is clean and that will remain clean in the future? This talk will focus on the problems that are caused by the continuing release of substances into the environment after the enforcement, and the relative successes, of the first most obvious and most cost-effective measures.
SESSION: Geothermal Energy and Thermal Engineering
Chair: Darko Goricanec, Jurij Krope
Spectroscopy of Infrared Emission Characteristics of Thermal Power Plant Boiler Coal Ash Deposits |
Aleksandar Saljnikov, Darko Goricanec, Danijela Dobersek, Dorde Kozic |
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Thermal response test use of a borehole heat exchanger |
Aleksandar Saljnikov, Darko Goricanec, Danijela Dobersek, Jurij Krope, Dorde Kozic |
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Numerical Simulation Model of Swirl Burner Pulverized Coal Flame |
Aleksandar Saljnikov, Darko Goricanec, Danijela Dobersek, Dorde Kozic |
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Traditional vs. alternative energy house heating source |
S. Poberznik, D. Goricanec, J. Krope |
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Turning wastes into high grade ecoproducts |
Georgeta Predeanu |
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Flow Rate Estimate for Separate Layers in a Geothermal Well based on Well Log Temperature |
E. Torhac, D. Goricanec, A. Saljnikov |
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Simulation and prediction of thermal energy demand |
Florina Ungureanu, Daniela Popescu, Catalin Ungureanu |
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Determining the temperature field for cylinder symmetrical heat conduction problems in instationary heat conduction in finite space |
Garbai László, Méhes Szabolcs |
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Numerical Analyses of Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Coal Depot and Mill |
Branimir Pavkovic, Zoran Carija, Veljko Karuza |
SESSION: Water Storage, Water Pollution and Fluid Dynamics
Chair: Kosta Mitreski, Nikolaos Taousanidis
Dynamic model and estimation of the future eutrophication for the Lake Prespa |
Kosta Mitreski, Andreja Naumoski |
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Pressure Drop in Aqueous Surfactant Solution Flow through Pipes in SIS Structure Degradation Zone |
M. Dugonik, D. Goricanec, J. Krope |
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Effect of water storage tanks design in solar combisystems efficiency |
Nikolaos Taousanidis |
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Fuzzy decision making on direction changes of water pollution monitoring underwater robots |
Seungyou Na, Daejung Shin, Jinyoung Kim, Seongjoon Baek |
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Measurement study on demand of domestic hot water in residential buildings |
Balazs Nemethi, Zoltan Szantho |
555-253 |
Inverse Problem for the Chemical Vapor Infiltration Process |
Andrew Jones, Pierre Ngnepieba |
SESSION: Energy and Electricity Market
Chair: Jurij Krope, Garbai László
Liberalising Energy in Europe: Public Service Obligations in the Energy Sector |
T. Krope, J. Krope |
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Importance of Legal Protection and International Quality Standards for Environmental Protection |
V. Pozeb, T. Krope |
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Analysis of the behavior of ternary hydrocarbon mixture as substitutes of the CFC-12 |
Rafael Quintero Ricardo |
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Security of energy supply, disturbance in electricity supply in 2006 and the link to the EU energy package |
Marko Sencar, Joze Vorsic, Jurij Krope |
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Use in combustion processes for a new type of gaseous fuel based on hydrogen |
Lucian Paunescu, Gheorghe Surugiu, Ion Melinte, Corneliu Dica, Paul Dan Stanescu, Gheorghe Iorga, Horia Necula |
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System Theory Models of Different Types of Heat Pumps |
Garbai László, Méhes Szabolcs |
Wednesday, May 16 2007
SESSION: Industrial Applications
Chair: Roberto Faranda, Garbai László
Applying Finite Element Method (FEM) for Solving a Self Cleaning Filtering Battery Module Prototype – Case Study |
Camelia Ioana Ucenic, Claudiu Ratiu |
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Comparison between ‘cut and try’ approach and automated optimization procedure when modelling the medium-voltage insulator |
Igor Ticar, Peter Kitak, Andrej Stermecki, Joze Pihler, Oszkar Biro, Kurt Preis |
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Considerations regarding the Control of a Mixed Genset based on the usage of Synchronous and Asynchronous Generator |
Marius Babescu, Ioan Filip, Valentina Balas, Octavian Prostean, Cristian Vasar |
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Models and tools for the CO2 emissions assessment and forecast in iron and steel sector |
Mihaela Balanescu, Ion Melinte, Mircea Dobrescu, George Darie |
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Numerical field analysis for determining universal motor’s performance curves |
Miloγ Bekovic, Anton Hamler |
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Considerations regarding the Induction Generator’s Compound Excitation |
Nicolae Budisan, Ioan Filip, Valentina Balas, Gabriela Prostean, Iosif Szeidert |
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RC filter to protect industrial arc furnace transformers during switching-off |
Roberto Faranda, M. Giussani, Giovanni Testin |
SESSION: Power Systems, Power Stations and Power Control
Chair: Aristidis Vlachos, Jassim Ga'eb
Different 600kW designs of an axial flux permanent magnet machine for wind turbines |
Eefje Peeters, Johan Van Bael, P. Van Tichelen |
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A real life analysis of small scale photovoltaic installations |
Eefje Peeters, Johan Van Bael |
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Meta-Heuristic Optimization techniques in power systems |
Aristidis Vlachos |
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Reactive power control for Unbalanced Load |
Jassim A Ga'eb |
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Modeling of switching operations using fault matrix method |
Martin Wolter, Bernd R. Oswald |
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Cooperation of heat pump and solar system in the common power unit |
Petr Mastny |
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Trace Element Speciation under Coal Fired Power Station Conditions |
Pushan Shah, Vladimir Strezov, Peter Nelson |
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Performance evaluation of a Hybrid Photovoltaic-Wind- Fuel Cell System |
Sonia Leva, Dario Zaninelli, Raffaele Contino |
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Synchronous Switching of Power Systems |
Stanislaw J. Kulas |
Thursday, May 17 2007
SESSION: Latest Trends on Energy and Environment
Chair: Jurij Krope, Jassim Ga'eb
Forecasting Tourism Demand using ANFIS for Assuaring Successful Strategies in the View of Sustainable Development in the Tourism Sector |
Atsalakis George, Ucenic Camelia Ioana |
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A video surveillance method based on information granularity |
Cornel Barna |
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Sustainable Management as a Part of Business Excellence of DEM |
Davorin Kralj, Marjan Smon, Jurij Krope |
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Investigation of air supply conditions in the room of a B11 type gas appliances |
Lajos Barna, Robert Goda |
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Influence of Climate Change on Modelling of HVAC Systems |
Laszlo Kajtar, Szilard Voros |
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A New Particle-Swarm-Based Algorithm for Distribution System Expansion Planning Including Distributed Generation |
A. H. Mantawy and Mohammad Al-Muhaini |
SESSION: Environmental and Ecological Issues
Chair: Camelia Ioana Ucenic, Florim Isufi
Attitude of Romanian Consumers and Producers toward Ecological Products |
Camelia Ioana Ucenic, Laura Bacali |
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Increasing Products’ Value through Ecological and Organic Certification |
Camelia Ioana Ucenic |
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The Effect of Ambient Air Pollution on Human Health |
B. Radakovic, T. Krope |
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The impact of environmental issues in the supply chain for a natural resource: the case study of Arnica Montana from Romania |
Camelia Ioana Ucenic, Nikos Mastorakis |
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Pinus pinea L. forest, a very important but threatened ecosystem in the Lebanon |
Dominique Choueiter, Camelia Ioana Ucenic |
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Electric power, environmental problem in Kosovo |
Florim Isufi, Gani Gashi, Ibrahim Ramadani, Shpejtim Bulliqi |
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Intensive quenching of limited- hardenability steels saves energy and increases service life of products |
Nikolai Kobasko |
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Ventilation Problems in Heritage Buildings |
Silvia Costanzo, Alessia Cusumano, Carlo Giaconia, Sante Mazzacane |
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The efficiency analysis for Moldavian industry |
Nikos E. Mastorakis, Iurie Caraus, Tkacenko Alexandra |
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The productive analysis for the Moldavian industry |
Nikos E. Mastorakis, Iurie Caraus, Tkacenko Alexandra |
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Development of Micro Mirror Solar Concentrator | E. Kussul, T. Baidyk, O. Makeyev, F. Lara-Rosano, J.M. Saniger, N. Bruce | |
Support Frame for Micro Facet Solar Concentrator | Ernst Kusssul, Tatiana Baidyk, Felipe Lara-Rosano, José M. Saniger, Neil Bruce |
PROGRAM
2nd
IASME/WSEAS International Conference on
CONTINUUM MECHANICS
(CM '07)
Portoroz, Slovenia, May 15-17, 2007
Tuesday, May 15 2007
PLENARY LECTURE 1
Legal Regulation of the European Internal Market in Energy
Ms. Tina Krope
LL. M. (Master of Laws, University College London)
Ministry of Economy
Directorate for Foreign Economic Relations
Slovenia
Abstract: The process of liberalising the energy and gas market in Europe is something the EU has struggled with for the past 15 years. To establish an internal market in the EU electricity and gas sectors was a priority in the Single Market programme and Lisbon Agenda in March 2000 in improving European competitiveness. It is a stated aim of the European Commission, Member States, regulatory authorities, and others, to work towards the creation of a single, efficient and effectively competitive energy market.
There are a number of reasons that underpin the launching of single European energy market. The integration of markets is expected to lower the energy prices and generate several advantages, such as increased security of supply, the latter being a great concern of all the EU countries, because the European economy is steadily demanding more and more energy, essentially based on fossil fuels, which make up four-fifths of its total energy consumption, almost two-thirds of which it imports. In 30 years’ time, 90% of oil is likely to be imported; consequently, rising import ratios may lead to the risk of an interruption or difficulties in supply. The high oil and gas prices we faced recently have raised major questions regarding scarcity of these resources. The recognition that these resources are finite and that the current high prices are, on the other hand, not as relevant considering the fact that there are sufficient reserves for the next few decades. There are other relevant factors affecting the price such as the increased import dependency of import consuming countries. Secure and affordable supplies can no longer be taken for granted, as the global energy demand is increasing and the oil and gas reserves are declining. On one hand, it is argued that security of supply is an ongoing concern; nevertheless, an integrated and competitive internal energy market will more than likely deliver secure supply, via a larger and more flexible market, and competition-inspired efficiency gains, innovation and development. To deliver the common objectives of the EU - secure, sustainable and competitive energy - an approach based solely on 25 individual energy policies is not sufficient. After all, experiences from gas and electricity liberalisation, wherever it has taken place around the world, have always been positive, and are expected to be such in the EU as well.
The opening up of the markets to all non-domestic consumers from July 2004 and to all consumers in July 2007 requires a series of measures to be put in place to enable new operators, the drivers of competition, to enter the market and serve the very many new eligible customers. We will have to deal with a completely different scale of things, one of the crucial changes being the increased number of eligible customers from July 2007 onwards.
The aim of achieving a fully liberalised and integrated energy market with lower energy prices and improved security of supply is for the benefit of the consumers, and at the same time, potential investors in new projects require a stable regulatory framework and the assurance that they have equal access to all customers in the EU. Besides the transposition and implementation of the new Gas and Electricity Directives into national legislation of the 25 Member States, the task of ensuring compliance should not fall exclusively on Commission’s shoulders. In order for the consumers to have a de facto single European grid, the work of national regulatory authorities is of a great importance, and the work conducted through the European Regulators Group for Electricity and Gas (ERGEG); the benefits for the consumers and the rights enjoyed by the European citizens are formed through a constructive dialogue with public authorities within the context of good governance.
PLENARY LECTURE 2
Meteorological
Climate Change effect of the Ataturk Dam
in Turkey at Eastern Anatolia
Prof. Levent Yilmaz
Civil Engineering Department
Technical University of Istanbul
Maslak, 80626, Istanbul, Turkey
Abstract: In Turkey, the
significant amount of energy produced obtained of hydroelectrical power
stations. Water constructions such as dam’s reservoir in arid and semi-arid
regions effects each other with climate and hydrology of environment. Therefore
meteorological conditions have to be established and monitored at the
hydroelectrical power stations. Droughts are among the most significant natural
hazards that might damage human life and property under different meteorological
and environmental conditions. The simplest methodology of temporal climate
change assessment is the standardized precipitation index (SPI) which is used to
quantify the precipitation deficit for several time scales, for example time
averaging periods. The SPI is commonly used for the identification of various
climate change characteristics such as the rain duration change, magnitude
change, and intensity change at different standard truncation levels. The
relationships between the drought duration and magnitude are provided in the
form of scatter diagrams with the best straight-line fits. These are obtained
for different truncation levels. Precipitation based drought description has
been extended to triple-variable additionally including temperature and humidity
time series. Such contours can be prepared for any base precipitation value but
in this study average precipitation value is adopted as the truncation level. In
this study is related to construction of the most important main project in the
South-eastern Anatolia Project (GAP) area, the Ataturk Dam.
PLENARY LECTURE 3
SMA Structures
Computations
Prof. M. L. Boubakar
Laboratoire de Mecanique Appliquee Raymond Chaleat,
Institut FEMTO-ST, UMR-CNRS 6174
Universite de Franche-Comte, ENSMM, UTBM
24, rue de l’Epitaphe, 25000 Besancon
FRANCE
Abstract: The growing
interest in smart structures technologies has led in the last decades to the
formulation of a variety of constitutive models for shape memory alloys (SMA).
However, most of these models are so demanding from a computational standpoint
that, except some exceptions, their application has been limited to only
one-dimensional situations.
In this work attention is focused on a phenomenological model of isotropic pseudoelasticity emanating from that, and on its numerical integration. The constitutive model under consideration is formulated in the framework of internal variables theory of inelastic behaviours, namely, by defining the transition criteria determining the onset of phase transitions (SMA pseudoelasticity is a reversible behaviour associated with a stress-induced solid-solid phase transition from a parent phase called austenite to a product phase called martensite) in a way completely analogous to the loading functions of plasticity theory. Although consistent with classical rate-independent behaviour modelling, this approach requires, however, suitable modifications of numerical algorithms originally designed for elastoplasticity. Return mapping algorithms are discussed in detail hereafter. In order to perform finite strains analysis, a closed form of the proposed modelling for small strains is developed within the context a non-material rotating frame formulation. In this context, a constitutive frame is suggested to take non-proportional loading into account.
PLENARY LECTURE 4
Will we ever
tackle the Problem of Environmental Pollution?
Prof. Aart Sterkenburg
Laboratory for Ecological Risk Assessment
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment RIVM
P.O Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Abstract: In the past
decennia, the state of the Dutch environment has improved considerably, mainly
due to the acknowledgement by policy, in the seventies and the eighties, that
action had to be taken with respect to the worsening state of the air, soil, and
surface and ground water, and due to the subsequent regulations enforced in
later years. The latter came both from the national government and international
agreements. Many emissions of substances have diminished, especially of those
originating from sources that could be pointed to unambiguously as being
responsible for environmental pollution. Obvious examples are the switch to
unleaded petrol in order to prevent the release of toxic lead into the air, the
ban on the use of haloalkanes in the Montreal protocol in order to protect the
ozone layer, but also the direct measures, within the scope of REACH, that
Industry must take to prevent emissions.
Yet, worrying amounts of pollutants still enter the environment. In densely populated areas the problem of particulate matter in the air is extremely difficult to tackle, just as is the continuing pollution of the surface water by release of chemicals from sediments or the leaching of substances form the soil into the ground water. In most cases these processes can be traced back to the diffuse sources as registered in the E-PRTR database.
Nowadays it has become a challenge to consider ecology with sustainable economic growth. What price are we prepared to pay for an environment that is clean and that will remain clean in the future? This talk will focus on the problems that are caused by the continuing release of substances into the environment after the enforcement, and the relative successes, of the first most obvious and most cost-effective measures.
SESSION: Heat transfer and Continuum Mechanics
Chair: Dario Ambrosini, Pavlo Krukovskyi
A study of heat transfer in vertical channels by white-light speckle photography |
Dario Ambrosini, Domenica Paoletti, Antonio Ponticiello |
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Analysis of heat transfer processes during intensive quenching of cylinder-shaped forgings on the basis of CFD simulation |
P. Krukovskyi, N. Kobasko, D. Yurchenko |
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The balance of gravitational effect and pressure loss in two-pipe heating systems |
Zoltan Szantho, Varga Balazs |
SESSION: Numerical and Scheduling Algorithms
Chair: Lamine Boubakar, Vasos Pavlika
Stable Adaptive Control of Manipulators with Improved Transients via Supervision of the Free-Design Parameters and Sampling Period |
M. De La Sen, A. Almansa, J. C. Soto, A. J. Garrido |
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SMA structures computations |
M. Lamine Boubakar and Christian Lexcellent |
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Convergence and Stability of a Numerical Algorithm For the Neutrons Transport Equation |
Nikos Mastorakis, Olga Martin |
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Rate of Convergence and Stability of a Numerical Algorithm for Neutrons Transport Equation |
Olga Martin, Nikos Mastorakis |
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Study of the dynamics of a rocket-launching device system on a heavy vehicle |
Somoiag Pamfil, Moraru Florentin, Safta Doru, Moldoveanu Cristian |
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Research concerning a rocket-launching device system oscillations on a heavy vehicle |
Somoiag Pamfil, Safta Doru, Moraru Florentin, Moldoveanu Cristian |
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The design of axisymmetric ducts for incompressible flow with blockage effects |
Vasos Pavlika |
Wednesday, May 16 2007
SESSION: Theory and Applications of Continuum Mechanics I
Chair: Aspasia Moue, Diana Cotoros
Analysis of masonry columns by a 3D F.E.M. homogenisation procedure |
A. Barbieri, A. Cecchi |
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Upon the Solutions Trajectories of an Euler Type Gyroscope |
Diana Cotoros, Dumitru Nicoara, Mihaela Baritz, Anca Stanciu |
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Mechanical behaviour of pre-tensioned glass fiber reinforced composite tubes subjected to internal pressure |
Horatiu Teodorescu, Sorin Vlase, Dumitru Nicoara, Violeta Guiman |
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The Test Examples for Approximate Solution of Singular Integro-Differential Equations by Mechanical Quadrature Methods in Classical Holder Spaces |
Iurie Caraus, Nikos Mastorakis |
Thursday, May 17 2007
SESSION: Theory and Applications of Continuum Mechanics II
Chair: Mikhail Itskov, Vladimir Danilov
A generalized polyconvex hyperelastic model for anisotropic solids |
M. Itskov, A. E. Ehret |
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Velocity Profile over Spillway by Finite Volume Solution of Slopping Depth Averaged Flow |
Saeed-Reza Sabbagh-Yazdi, Nikos E. Mastorakis, Mohammad Zounemat-Kermani |
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Accurate and Efficient Numerical Solution for Trans-critical Steady Flow in a Channel with Variable Geometry |
Saeed-Reza Sabbagh-Yazdi, Nikos E. Mastorakis, Mohammad Zounemat-Kermani |
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A Phenomenological Two-Dimensional Model of Constrained Recovery in Shape Memory Alloy Rings |
Tomaz Videnic, Franc Kosel, Andrej Puksic, Miha Brojan |
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CFD Modelling of Indoor Air Quality and Thermal Comfort |
Laszlo Kajtar, Anita Leitner |
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The dynamic stress state of the wheel-rail contact | Xin Zhao, Zili Li, Coenraad Esveld, Rolf Dollevoet | 555-162 |
Estimation of homogenized elastic coefficients of pre-impregnated composite materials | Horatiu Teodorescu, Sorin Vlase, Ioan Candea, Luminita Scutaru | 555-180 |
PROGRAM
2nd
IASME/WSEAS International Conference on
WATER RESOURCES,
HYDRAULICS & HYDROLOGY
(WHH '07)
Portoroz, Slovenia, May 15-17, 2007
Tuesday, May 15 2007
PLENARY LECTURE 1
Legal Regulation of the European Internal Market in Energy
Ms. Tina Krope
LL. M. (Master of Laws, University College London)
Ministry of Economy
Directorate for Foreign Economic Relations
Slovenia
Abstract: The process of liberalising the energy and gas market in Europe is something the EU has struggled with for the past 15 years. To establish an internal market in the EU electricity and gas sectors was a priority in the Single Market programme and Lisbon Agenda in March 2000 in improving European competitiveness. It is a stated aim of the European Commission, Member States, regulatory authorities, and others, to work towards the creation of a single, efficient and effectively competitive energy market.
There are a number of reasons that underpin the launching of single European energy market. The integration of markets is expected to lower the energy prices and generate several advantages, such as increased security of supply, the latter being a great concern of all the EU countries, because the European economy is steadily demanding more and more energy, essentially based on fossil fuels, which make up four-fifths of its total energy consumption, almost two-thirds of which it imports. In 30 years’ time, 90% of oil is likely to be imported; consequently, rising import ratios may lead to the risk of an interruption or difficulties in supply. The high oil and gas prices we faced recently have raised major questions regarding scarcity of these resources. The recognition that these resources are finite and that the current high prices are, on the other hand, not as relevant considering the fact that there are sufficient reserves for the next few decades. There are other relevant factors affecting the price such as the increased import dependency of import consuming countries. Secure and affordable supplies can no longer be taken for granted, as the global energy demand is increasing and the oil and gas reserves are declining. On one hand, it is argued that security of supply is an ongoing concern; nevertheless, an integrated and competitive internal energy market will more than likely deliver secure supply, via a larger and more flexible market, and competition-inspired efficiency gains, innovation and development. To deliver the common objectives of the EU - secure, sustainable and competitive energy - an approach based solely on 25 individual energy policies is not sufficient. After all, experiences from gas and electricity liberalisation, wherever it has taken place around the world, have always been positive, and are expected to be such in the EU as well.
The opening up of the markets to all non-domestic consumers from July 2004 and to all consumers in July 2007 requires a series of measures to be put in place to enable new operators, the drivers of competition, to enter the market and serve the very many new eligible customers. We will have to deal with a completely different scale of things, one of the crucial changes being the increased number of eligible customers from July 2007 onwards.
The aim of achieving a fully liberalised and integrated energy market with lower energy prices and improved security of supply is for the benefit of the consumers, and at the same time, potential investors in new projects require a stable regulatory framework and the assurance that they have equal access to all customers in the EU. Besides the transposition and implementation of the new Gas and Electricity Directives into national legislation of the 25 Member States, the task of ensuring compliance should not fall exclusively on Commission’s shoulders. In order for the consumers to have a de facto single European grid, the work of national regulatory authorities is of a great importance, and the work conducted through the European Regulators Group for Electricity and Gas (ERGEG); the benefits for the consumers and the rights enjoyed by the European citizens are formed through a constructive dialogue with public authorities within the context of good governance.
PLENARY LECTURE 2
Meteorological
Climate Change effect of the Ataturk Dam
in Turkey at Eastern Anatolia
Prof. Levent Yilmaz
Civil Engineering Department
Technical University of Istanbul
Maslak, 80626, Istanbul, Turkey
Abstract: In Turkey, the
significant amount of energy produced obtained of hydroelectrical power
stations. Water constructions such as dam’s reservoir in arid and semi-arid
regions effects each other with climate and hydrology of environment. Therefore
meteorological conditions have to be established and monitored at the
hydroelectrical power stations. Droughts are among the most significant natural
hazards that might damage human life and property under different meteorological
and environmental conditions. The simplest methodology of temporal climate
change assessment is the standardized precipitation index (SPI) which is used to
quantify the precipitation deficit for several time scales, for example time
averaging periods. The SPI is commonly used for the identification of various
climate change characteristics such as the rain duration change, magnitude
change, and intensity change at different standard truncation levels. The
relationships between the drought duration and magnitude are provided in the
form of scatter diagrams with the best straight-line fits. These are obtained
for different truncation levels. Precipitation based drought description has
been extended to triple-variable additionally including temperature and humidity
time series. Such contours can be prepared for any base precipitation value but
in this study average precipitation value is adopted as the truncation level. In
this study is related to construction of the most important main project in the
South-eastern Anatolia Project (GAP) area, the Ataturk Dam.
PLENARY LECTURE 3
SMA Structures
Computations
Prof. M. L. Boubakar
Laboratoire de Mecanique Appliquee Raymond Chaleat,
Institut FEMTO-ST, UMR-CNRS 6174
Universite de Franche-Comte, ENSMM, UTBM
24, rue de l’Epitaphe, 25000 Besancon
FRANCE
Abstract: The growing
interest in smart structures technologies has led in the last decades to the
formulation of a variety of constitutive models for shape memory alloys (SMA).
However, most of these models are so demanding from a computational standpoint
that, except some exceptions, their application has been limited to only
one-dimensional situations.
In this work attention is focused on a phenomenological model of isotropic pseudoelasticity emanating from that, and on its numerical integration. The constitutive model under consideration is formulated in the framework of internal variables theory of inelastic behaviours, namely, by defining the transition criteria determining the onset of phase transitions (SMA pseudoelasticity is a reversible behaviour associated with a stress-induced solid-solid phase transition from a parent phase called austenite to a product phase called martensite) in a way completely analogous to the loading functions of plasticity theory. Although consistent with classical rate-independent behaviour modelling, this approach requires, however, suitable modifications of numerical algorithms originally designed for elastoplasticity. Return mapping algorithms are discussed in detail hereafter. In order to perform finite strains analysis, a closed form of the proposed modelling for small strains is developed within the context a non-material rotating frame formulation. In this context, a constitutive frame is suggested to take non-proportional loading into account.
PLENARY LECTURE 4
Will we ever
tackle the Problem of Environmental Pollution?
Prof. Aart Sterkenburg
Laboratory for Ecological Risk Assessment
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment RIVM
P.O Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Abstract: In the past
decennia, the state of the Dutch environment has improved considerably, mainly
due to the acknowledgement by policy, in the seventies and the eighties, that
action had to be taken with respect to the worsening state of the air, soil, and
surface and ground water, and due to the subsequent regulations enforced in
later years. The latter came both from the national government and international
agreements. Many emissions of substances have diminished, especially of those
originating from sources that could be pointed to unambiguously as being
responsible for environmental pollution. Obvious examples are the switch to
unleaded petrol in order to prevent the release of toxic lead into the air, the
ban on the use of haloalkanes in the Montreal protocol in order to protect the
ozone layer, but also the direct measures, within the scope of REACH, that
Industry must take to prevent emissions.
Yet, worrying amounts of pollutants still enter the environment. In densely populated areas the problem of particulate matter in the air is extremely difficult to tackle, just as is the continuing pollution of the surface water by release of chemicals from sediments or the leaching of substances form the soil into the ground water. In most cases these processes can be traced back to the diffuse sources as registered in the E-PRTR database.
Nowadays it has become a challenge to consider ecology with sustainable economic growth. What price are we prepared to pay for an environment that is clean and that will remain clean in the future? This talk will focus on the problems that are caused by the continuing release of substances into the environment after the enforcement, and the relative successes, of the first most obvious and most cost-effective measures.
SESSION: Latest Advances on Hydraulics & Hydrology
Chair: Hemant V. Hajare, Banafsheh Zahraie
Experiences with riverbank-filtration on the Szentendre Island (Danube River, Hungary) |
Ferenc Homonnai, Ferenc Kaszab, Csaba Szabo |
|
A New Technique for Evaluation of Crop Coefficients:A Case Study |
H. V. Hajare, N. S. Raman, Jayant Dharkar |
|
Distribution of chlorides and sulfates in the aeration zone of coal waste landfill and sulfides decomposition kinetics and ground-water environment acidification |
Michal Gwozdziewicz, Zbigniew Bzowski, Katarzyna Bojarska |
|
Flood Simulation and Emergency Management: a Web-Based Decision Support System |
Xiaofeng Zhao, Xin Zhang, Tianhe Chi, Huabin Chen ,Yunhai Miao |
Wednesday, May 16 2007
SESSION: Hydrologic and Hydrogeological Modelling
Chair: Banafsheh Zahraie, Siamak Bodaghpour
Hydrologic model combined to a GIS for estimating hydrologic balance at watershed scale - Application to the watershed of Macta (Western Algerian) |
Mendas Abdelkader, Errih Mohamed, Djilali Abdelkader |
|
Cavitation Swirl in the Inlet Pipe of the Radial Pump |
Andrej Predin, Ignacijo Bilus |
|
Development of Fuzzy Reservoir Operation Policies Using Genetic Algorithm |
Banafsheh Zahraie, Seyed-Moussa Hosseini |
|
Port-based modelling for open channel irrigation systems |
Boussad Hamroun, Laurent Lefčvre, Eduardo Mendes |
|
Fuzzy logic model for soil water balance problem |
Iraklis Chalkidis, Christos Tzimopoulos, Christos Evagelides, Maria Sakellariou, Stauros Yannopoulos |
|
Introduction of mathematical storage function based on lumping process of infilltration theory |
Siamak Bodaghpour, Seyyed Ahmad Mirbagheri, Seyyed Arman Hashemi Monfared |
|
Analysis of the Assimilative Capacity with Various Dimensional Water Quality Models in Tseng-Wen Reservoir (Taiwan) |
Yi-Chao Lee, Chen-Cheng Yang, Chao-Shi Chen, Shui-Ping Chang, Ching-Gung Wen, Chih-Sheng Lee |
Thursday, May 17 2007
SESSION: Water Resource Planning
Chair: Chih-Sheng Lee, Siamak Bodaghpour
Vulnerability of the aquifer system: considerations on a methodological approach |
Dimitra Rapti-Caputo and Francesco Sdao |
|
GIS – based water management in the Chania area, Western Crete |
Maria Kouli, Pantelis Soupios, Filippos Vallianatos |
|
Hydrogeological Water Balance in a Carbonate Hydro-Structure |
Salvatore Manfreda, Francesco Sdao, Aurelia Sole |
|
Climate and Soil Controls on Flood Frequency |
Andrea Gioia, Vito Iacobellis, Salvatore Manfreda, Mauro Fiorentino |
PROGRAM
1st IASME/WSEAS International Conference on
GEOLOGY and SEISMOLOGY
(GES'07)
Portoroz, Slovenia, May 15-17, 2007
Tuesday, May 15 2007
PLENARY LECTURE 1
Legal Regulation of the European Internal Market in Energy
Ms. Tina Krope
LL. M. (Master of Laws, University College London)
Ministry of Economy
Directorate for Foreign Economic Relations
Slovenia
Abstract: The process of liberalising the energy and gas market in Europe is something the EU has struggled with for the past 15 years. To establish an internal market in the EU electricity and gas sectors was a priority in the Single Market programme and Lisbon Agenda in March 2000 in improving European competitiveness. It is a stated aim of the European Commission, Member States, regulatory authorities, and others, to work towards the creation of a single, efficient and effectively competitive energy market.
There are a number of reasons that underpin the launching of single European energy market. The integration of markets is expected to lower the energy prices and generate several advantages, such as increased security of supply, the latter being a great concern of all the EU countries, because the European economy is steadily demanding more and more energy, essentially based on fossil fuels, which make up four-fifths of its total energy consumption, almost two-thirds of which it imports. In 30 years’ time, 90% of oil is likely to be imported; consequently, rising import ratios may lead to the risk of an interruption or difficulties in supply. The high oil and gas prices we faced recently have raised major questions regarding scarcity of these resources. The recognition that these resources are finite and that the current high prices are, on the other hand, not as relevant considering the fact that there are sufficient reserves for the next few decades. There are other relevant factors affecting the price such as the increased import dependency of import consuming countries. Secure and affordable supplies can no longer be taken for granted, as the global energy demand is increasing and the oil and gas reserves are declining. On one hand, it is argued that security of supply is an ongoing concern; nevertheless, an integrated and competitive internal energy market will more than likely deliver secure supply, via a larger and more flexible market, and competition-inspired efficiency gains, innovation and development. To deliver the common objectives of the EU - secure, sustainable and competitive energy - an approach based solely on 25 individual energy policies is not sufficient. After all, experiences from gas and electricity liberalisation, wherever it has taken place around the world, have always been positive, and are expected to be such in the EU as well.
The opening up of the markets to all non-domestic consumers from July 2004 and to all consumers in July 2007 requires a series of measures to be put in place to enable new operators, the drivers of competition, to enter the market and serve the very many new eligible customers. We will have to deal with a completely different scale of things, one of the crucial changes being the increased number of eligible customers from July 2007 onwards.
The aim of achieving a fully liberalised and integrated energy market with lower energy prices and improved security of supply is for the benefit of the consumers, and at the same time, potential investors in new projects require a stable regulatory framework and the assurance that they have equal access to all customers in the EU. Besides the transposition and implementation of the new Gas and Electricity Directives into national legislation of the 25 Member States, the task of ensuring compliance should not fall exclusively on Commission’s shoulders. In order for the consumers to have a de facto single European grid, the work of national regulatory authorities is of a great importance, and the work conducted through the European Regulators Group for Electricity and Gas (ERGEG); the benefits for the consumers and the rights enjoyed by the European citizens are formed through a constructive dialogue with public authorities within the context of good governance.
PLENARY LECTURE 2
Meteorological
Climate Change effect of the Ataturk Dam
in Turkey at Eastern Anatolia
Prof. Levent Yilmaz
Civil Engineering Department
Technical University of Istanbul
Maslak, 80626, Istanbul, Turkey
Abstract: In Turkey, the
significant amount of energy produced obtained of hydroelectrical power
stations. Water constructions such as dam’s reservoir in arid and semi-arid
regions effects each other with climate and hydrology of environment. Therefore
meteorological conditions have to be established and monitored at the
hydroelectrical power stations. Droughts are among the most significant natural
hazards that might damage human life and property under different meteorological
and environmental conditions. The simplest methodology of temporal climate
change assessment is the standardized precipitation index (SPI) which is used to
quantify the precipitation deficit for several time scales, for example time
averaging periods. The SPI is commonly used for the identification of various
climate change characteristics such as the rain duration change, magnitude
change, and intensity change at different standard truncation levels. The
relationships between the drought duration and magnitude are provided in the
form of scatter diagrams with the best straight-line fits. These are obtained
for different truncation levels. Precipitation based drought description has
been extended to triple-variable additionally including temperature and humidity
time series. Such contours can be prepared for any base precipitation value but
in this study average precipitation value is adopted as the truncation level. In
this study is related to construction of the most important main project in the
South-eastern Anatolia Project (GAP) area, the Ataturk Dam.
PLENARY LECTURE 3
SMA Structures
Computations
Prof. M. L. Boubakar
Laboratoire de Mecanique Appliquee Raymond Chaleat,
Institut FEMTO-ST, UMR-CNRS 6174
Universite de Franche-Comte, ENSMM, UTBM
24, rue de l’Epitaphe, 25000 Besancon
FRANCE
Abstract: The growing
interest in smart structures technologies has led in the last decades to the
formulation of a variety of constitutive models for shape memory alloys (SMA).
However, most of these models are so demanding from a computational standpoint
that, except some exceptions, their application has been limited to only
one-dimensional situations.
In this work attention is focused on a phenomenological model of isotropic pseudoelasticity emanating from that, and on its numerical integration. The constitutive model under consideration is formulated in the framework of internal variables theory of inelastic behaviours, namely, by defining the transition criteria determining the onset of phase transitions (SMA pseudoelasticity is a reversible behaviour associated with a stress-induced solid-solid phase transition from a parent phase called austenite to a product phase called martensite) in a way completely analogous to the loading functions of plasticity theory. Although consistent with classical rate-independent behaviour modelling, this approach requires, however, suitable modifications of numerical algorithms originally designed for elastoplasticity. Return mapping algorithms are discussed in detail hereafter. In order to perform finite strains analysis, a closed form of the proposed modelling for small strains is developed within the context a non-material rotating frame formulation. In this context, a constitutive frame is suggested to take non-proportional loading into account.
PLENARY LECTURE 4
Will we ever
tackle the Problem of Environmental Pollution?
Prof. Aart Sterkenburg
Laboratory for Ecological Risk Assessment
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment RIVM
P.O Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Abstract: In the past
decennia, the state of the Dutch environment has improved considerably, mainly
due to the acknowledgement by policy, in the seventies and the eighties, that
action had to be taken with respect to the worsening state of the air, soil, and
surface and ground water, and due to the subsequent regulations enforced in
later years. The latter came both from the national government and international
agreements. Many emissions of substances have diminished, especially of those
originating from sources that could be pointed to unambiguously as being
responsible for environmental pollution. Obvious examples are the switch to
unleaded petrol in order to prevent the release of toxic lead into the air, the
ban on the use of haloalkanes in the Montreal protocol in order to protect the
ozone layer, but also the direct measures, within the scope of REACH, that
Industry must take to prevent emissions.
Yet, worrying amounts of pollutants still enter the environment. In densely populated areas the problem of particulate matter in the air is extremely difficult to tackle, just as is the continuing pollution of the surface water by release of chemicals from sediments or the leaching of substances form the soil into the ground water. In most cases these processes can be traced back to the diffuse sources as registered in the E-PRTR database.
Nowadays it has become a challenge to consider ecology with sustainable economic growth. What price are we prepared to pay for an environment that is clean and that will remain clean in the future? This talk will focus on the problems that are caused by the continuing release of substances into the environment after the enforcement, and the relative successes, of the first most obvious and most cost-effective measures.
SPECIAL SESSION: Site-Dependent Deterministic and Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis
Chair: Vladimir Sokolov
Numerical modelling of site effects - Influences of groundwater level changes |
Dominik Ehret, Dieter Hannich, Sascha Schmitt, Gerhard Huber |
|
Generic Theoretical Formulae for Estimating Site Effects |
Hing-ho Tsang, Nelson T. K. Lam, Michael W. Asten, S. H. Lo |
|
Site-Dependent Response Spectral Attenuation Modelling |
Hing-ho Tsang, Nelson T. K. Lam, S. H. Lo |
|
Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment without Source Characterization |
Hing-ho Tsang, Nelson T. K. Lam, S. H. Lo |
|
The Importance of Crustal Shear Wave Velocity Profile for Ground Motion Modelling |
Hing-ho Tsang, Nelson T. K. Lam, S. H. Lo |
Wednesday, May 16 2007
SESSION: Modelling and Simulation in Geology and Seismology
Chair: Stelios Zimeras, Chen Hong-Kai
A simple experiment on seismic precursors |
Carlo Artemi |
|
Modeling earthquake data using spatial statistics techniques |
S. Zimeras |
|
A Neurogenetic Method for System-Identification |
Silvia Garcia and Miguel Romo |
|
Evolution of Debris Flow on Hillside |
Chen Hong-Kai , Tang Hong-Mei |
|
Endochronic model applied to earthfill dams with impervious core: design recommendation at seismic sites |
Susana Lopez-Querol, Pedro Jose Martin-Moreta |
SESSION: Characteristics and Solutions on Earthquakes in Populated Areas
Chair: Chen Hong-Kai, Vladimir Sokolov
Deaggregation of the Regional Seismic Hazard: City of Patras, Greece |
Laurentiu Danciu, Efthimios Sokos and G-Akis Tselentis |
|
INPAR, CMT, and RCMT seismic moment solutions compared for the strongest damaging events (M≥4.8) occurred in the Italian region in the last decade |
Mariangela Guidarelli, Giuliano Panza |
|
On the Contradictory Characteristics of the EEP Signal Observed Prior to the Kythira M 6.9 Earthquake on January 2006 |
A. Konstantaras, J. P. Makris |
|
Static Stress Changes and Fault Interaction Related to the 1985 Nahanni Earthquakes, Western Canada | Ali Osman Oncel |