2022 Transportation Engineering
A metro transfer passenger flow prediction model was proposed based on the seasonal decomposition of time series by loess(STL)and Gated Recurrent Unit(GRU),in order to enrich the research on metro internal transfer passenger flow prediction and to better formulate the metro operation plan.The prediction process was divided into three stages by the model.In the first stage,the raw automatic fare collection(AFC)data are preprocessed,where the travel path of passengers is identified using the graph-based depth-first search algorithm and the transfer passenger flow time series are constructed.In the second stage,the transfer passenger flow time series are decomposed into the trend component,seasonal component and remainder component by the STL;while the outliers of remainder component are eliminated and filled using the 3σ principle.In the third stage,the GRU model is built and the related training and prediction are processed through the deep learning library Keras.The model performance was validated with the passenger flow data of Xizhimen Station of Beijing metro.The result shows that,compared to the following 3 models which are long short-term memory neural network(LSTM),GRU and STL-LSTM model,the STL-GRU prediction model can improve the prediction accuracy of transfer passenger flow on weekdays(excluding Friday),Friday and weekends,and the mean absolute percentage errors of the prediction results can be reduced by at least 2.3%,1.36%,and 6.42%,respectively.
Elevated railway stations are usually large-span buildings and require skylights. Traditional skylight design methods have difficulties in solving the multi-objective problem of complex requirements in lighting and energy-saving. In order to realize the multi-objective optimization of the flat skylight of the high-speed railway station, based on the pre-design parameter settings of the flat skylight of the elevated high-speed railway station, this paper constructed a set of genetic algorithm-based multi-objective optimization methods using Rhino and Grasshopper platforms, building performance simulation tool called Ladybug, and multi-objective optimization tool called Octopus. Multi-objective optimization method for flat skylight goes through the steps of determining variables, determining optimization objectives, building models and programming, using Rhino and Grasshopper to build a simplified parametric model, importing the Ladybug tool for performance analysis, and using Octopus tool to carry out iterative multi-objective optimization according to the analysis results. The optimization process can automatically change and simulate the parameterized part of the model, and record and compare the results of each change and simulation. And finally, it finds out the parameters that best meet the set multiple objectives. Returning the parameters to the parametric model can yield the optimal model and the corresponding building performance simulation results. Furthermore, an empirical analysis was carried out by taking Guangzhou Baiyun Station as an example. According to the requirements of the main lighting standards at home and abroad, the study first set the daylighting factor and the daylighting uniformity up to the standard, the useful daylighting illuminance as significant as possible, the possibility of glare occurrence as small as possible, and the solar radiation as small as possible as the target system. Then it used the method for multi-objective optimization. The results show that compared with the original scheme, the final scheme meets the basic standard of daylighting factor and has better lighting uniformity, useful daylighting illuminance, glare occurrence possibility, and solar radiation under the lighting intensity conditions. The proposed method has a wide range of application scenarios and more flexibility and can provide references for related research.
In order to obtain the high-accuracy solution for control tension of each strand of stay-cables during construction, this paper studied the nonlinear relationships among the parameters describing the static state of cables and proposed a high-accuracy and non-iteration solving method for control tension of each steel strand. Based on the exact solution of the catenary of the cable shape, the high-precision and approximate solution of the stress-free length of the cable was solved by the Taylor expansion method. Based on the two basic principles of forward assembly analysis and equivalent tensioning method, the equivalent static state of steel strands during the construction process was obtained by recursive calculation when different steel strands were tensioned. The high-precision solution for the control tension of each steel strand was solved by approximating the unstressed cable length, the equivalent cross-sectional area and the projected length of the diagonal cable.Taking the stay-cables of the main bridge of the Honghe Bridge (a composite girder cable-stayed bridge with a main span of 500 meters) in Zhuhai city, the Jitimen Bridge (a prestressed concrete cable-stayed bridge with a main span of 210 meters) in Zhuhai city and cables mentioned in two literatures as examples, the error between the approximate solution of the method in this study and the exact solution of the catenary of iterative solution was calculated. The results show that the calculated error of the stress-free cable length between the method proposed in this paper and the catenary solution is less than 0.002%, and the tension error of each strand is less than 2%, which fully meet the accuracy requirements of construction. The method presented in this paper has the advantages of high precision and low calculation cost, so it has a high value of popularization and application.
This paper carried out a detailed study on the damping characteristics of the eddy current coupling beam damper, which can start to dissipate energy under small deformation of the replaceable coupling beam. Based on the analysis of magnetic circuit theory, the study proposed the optimal arrangement of permanent magnet pole in eddy current damper. In other words, the permanent magnet poles parallel to the direction of conductor motion were arranged alternately, and the permanent magnet poles perpendicular to the direction of conductor motion were arranged in the same direction. In view of this, two kinds of eddy current dampers were designed, one of which is the plate eddy current damper with the conductor plate moving straight in the magnetic field and the other is the rotary eddy current damper with the gear-rack mechanism to amplify the rotation speed of the conductor plate in the magnetic field. Two kinds of eddy current dampers were used in the replaceable coupling beam, and the finite element simulation of the new eddy current coupling beam damper installed on the replaceable coupling beam was carried out, which revealed the nonlinear mechanical behavior of eddy current damping. It shows that the damping coefficient and stiffness coefficient are strongly related to the frequency. The higher the loading frequency, the lower the energy consumption efficiency and the higher the dynamic stiffness of the structure. So, the eddy current damper is more suitable for low frequency working conditions, and at this time, the damping coefficient of the eddy current damper is large, the energy consumption efficiency is high, and the stiffness coefficient is small, which basically does not change the natural vibration characteristics of the structure. Therefore, it is of great value in real-world application.