Improvement of HVSR technique by self-organizing map (SOM) analysis

Data interpretation is one of the most important and thorny tasks in geosciences. Difficulties occur especially in non-invasive geophysical techniques and/or when the data that have to be analyzed are multidimensional, non-linear and highly noisy. Another important task is to ensure an efficient automatic data analysis, in order to allow a data interpretation as independent as possible from any a priori knowledge. This paper describes the post-processing application of a kind of neural network (self-organizing map, SOM) to the identification of the fundamental HVSR frequency of a given site. SOM results can be represented as two-dimensional maps, with a non-parametric mapping that projects the high dimensional original dataset in a fashion that provides both an unsupervised clustering and a highly visual representation of the data relationships. This innovative application of the SOM algorithm is presented with a case study related to the characterization of a mineral deposit.     

The tunnel seismic advance prediction method with wide illumination and a high signal-to-noise ratio

Tunnel seismic prediction is widely used in the field of tunnel seismic advance detection. The illumination of the target and the signal-to-noise ratio of the data are two key factors affecting the precision of data interpretation. Current seismic prospecting has shortcomings on sites: (1) The lighting shots are solely towards one side of the tunnel wall, (2) the geophones are placed far away from the tunnel face and (3) the surface waves from the tunnel wall dominate over the reflection waves, lowering the signal-to-noise ratio of the data at the tunnel wall. This paper proposes a tunnel symmetrical geometry to tackle the above challenges. The arrangement is to place 12 sources uniformly on each side of the tunnel wall and six geophones on the tunnel wall and face. Results of simulated data and measured data show that the proposed method enables (1) broad illumination of the target body, (2) the enhancement of illumination energy of the target body, and (3) higher data signal-to-noise ratio. The proposed symmetrical geometry method provides better interpretation in terms of broader coverage, higher quality and greater distance of investigation.     

Changes in channel size at river confluences with coarse bed material

A field survey of thirty stream junctions from a small watershed, together with data collected by Miller (1958), allowed us to investigate morphometric adjustments occurring at confluences. The model proposed by Roy and Woldenberg (1986) was slightly modified and used as a tool for morphometric analysis. Two parameters are necessary in order to evaluate the rate of change in channel size at a confluence: the area ratio (channel capacity above the confluence: channel capacity below the confluence) and the discharge ratio (discharge of the minor tributary: discharge of the major tributary). Our data show that total channel capacity tends to decline below most confluences. A reduction in cross-sectional area implies an increase in average flow velocity. This interpretation is consistent with Lyell's observations and with results from recent flume experiments (Best and Reid, 1984).     

AUTOMATIC INTERPRETATION OF GRAVITY GRADIOMETRIC DATA IN TWO DIMENSIONS: VERTICAL GRADIENT1

The magnetic and gravity field produced by a given homogeneous source are related through Poisson's equation. Starting from this consideration, it is shown that some 2D interpretation tools, widely applied in the analysis of aeromagnetic data, can also be used for the interpretation of gravity gradiometric data (vertical gradient). This paper deals specifically with the Werner deconvolution, analytic signal and Euler's equation methods. After a short outline of the mathematical development, synthesized examples have been used to discuss the efficiency and limits of these interpretation methods. These tools could be applied directly to airborne gravity gradiometric data as well as ground gravity surveys after transformation of the Bouguer anomalies into vertical gradient anomalies. An example is given of the application of the Werner deconvolution and Euler's equation methods to a microgravity survey.     

地质找矿过程中如何提高物探工作质量

本文从六个方面讨论了在地质找矿工作中如何提高物探工作质量，更好地发挥物探作用.这些问题均为作者在多年野外工作中遇到后加以总结.这六方面内容为：测网敷设，物探数据的观测及室内整理，资料成图，岩矿石标本的物性测定，物探工作方法选择，成果解释.     

Orientation of the stress field from breakouts in a crystalline well in a seismic active area

The orientation of the regional stress field in the Swabian Jura was determined from borehole breakouts caused by stress accumulation at the borehole wall. The analysis is based on caliper data recorded in the Urach 3 geothermal well within an intervall of about 1450 m. The azimuths of the breakouts are consistent with depth and indicate a stress direction which is in good agreement with the interpretation of fault plane solutions of nearby earthquakes.     

中国大陆科学钻探孔区的数字三分量反射地震调查

本文将简要介绍在大陆科学钻探孔区进行数字三分量地震勘探试验数据采集处理技术，以及取得的初步成果. 鉴于结晶岩地区波场的复杂性，在剖面调查之前要先进行波场特征调查，才能确定三分量地震调查观测系统采集参数.数据处理中与水平分量处理有关的三个困难环节包括静校正、速度分析与动校叠加，必须有所创新.在大陆科学钻探工程中，三分量数字地震调查之所以放在终孔后才进行，主要是因为三分量地震解释要以钻孔资料和VSP成果为基础.如果没有岩芯物性测定资料或VSP纵横波速度计算曲线，横波速度剖面模式就难以建立，水平分量数据处理和解释就难以进行.与单分量地震调查相比，水平分量采集处理提供了转换波信息，可反映独特的很有意义的地质信息.在三分量数字地震调查X分量深度叠加剖面左半边深度2600～3400 m区段出现密集的水平反射层，与Z分量反射剖面和变质岩片倾向不一致.对比主孔气体异常曲线可知，这些水平反射是地层中流体含量升高的反映.     

Azimuthal anisotropy analysis of walkaround vertical seismic profiling vertical seismic profiling: a case study from Saudi Arabia

Understanding fracture orientations is important for optimal field development of fractured reservoirs because fractures can act as conduits for fluid flow. This is especially true for unconventional reservoirs (e.g., tight gas sands and shale gas). Using walkaround Vertical Seismic Profiling (VSP) technology presents a unique opportunity to identify seismic azimuthal anisotropy for use in mapping potential fracture zones and their orientation around a borehole. Saudi Aramco recently completed the acquisition, processing and analysis of a walkaround VSP survey through an unconventional tight gas sand reservoir to help characterize fractures. In this paper, we present the results of the seismic azimuthal anisotropy analysis using seismic traveltime, shear‐wave splitting and amplitude attenuation. The azimuthal anisotropy results are compared to the fracture orientations derived from dipole sonic and image logs. The image log interpretation suggests that an orthorhombic fracture system is present. VSP data show that the P‐wave traveltime anisotropy direction is NE to SW. This is consistent with the cemented fractures from the image log interpretation. The seismic amplitude attenuation anisotropy direction is NW to SE. This is consistent with one of the two orientations obtained using transverse to radial amplitude ratio analysis, with the dipole sonic and with open fracture directions interpreted from image log data.     

Die Anwendung von Clusteranalysen zum Mustervergleich – BASIC-Programmierung der Potentialmethode CLUPOT

The method of cluster analysis as a means for the structuring, classification and interpretation of multivariate data is represented in a survey of hierarchical and non-hierarchical procedures. The non-hierarchical potential method CLUPOT is described in a BASIC program and applied to the example of the daily variations of the heavy-metal concentrations in wastewater.     

基于流动重力资料的平原地区深部构造解释

以河北省流动重力测点覆盖区域内邢台地区4条断裂为例,将卫星布格重力异常与实测布格重力异常进行对比,发现流动重力资料可更为详细地反映测点周围构造的空间分布特征,为精细刻画华北平原地区深部构造背景提供可靠资料。采用向上延拓方法,对实测布格重力异常进行处理,获得不同上延高度的布格重力异常图像,结合当地地震地质与构造资料进行分析,并对流动重力资料在构造解释上的应用前景进行展望,认为该方法可提高现有资料的利用价值,适合在流动重力测量地区推广。     

Significance of ichnofossils to genetic stratigraphy--Examples from the Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada

Trace fossils represent both sedimentological and paleontological entities, representing a unique blending of potential environmental indicators in the rock record. Trace fossils and trace fossil suites can be employed effectively to aid in the recognition of various discontinuity types and to assist in their genetic interpretation. Ichnology may be employed to resolve surfaces of stratigraphic significance in two main ways: 1) through the identification of discontinuities using substrate-controlled ichnofacies, and 2) through careful analysis of vertical softground (penecontemporaneous) ichnologic successions (analogous to facies successions). Ichnological analysis is a valuable tool in genetic stratigraphic studies. Integrating the data derived from substrate-controlled ichnofacies with paleoecological data from vertical ichnologic successions greatly enhances the recognition and interpretation of a wide variety of stratigraphic surfaces. When this is coupled with conventional facies analysis and sequence stratigraphy, a powerful approach to the interpretation of the rock record is generated.     

Geophysical characterisation of Carlo's V Castle (Crotone, Italy)

The Carlo's V Castle, located in Crotone Town, on the Ionian coast of the Calabria Region (Italy), date back to the 13th century d.C. (Fig. 1). During its long life, the building changed several owners and sustained the damages and the consequent reconstructions due to the innumerable naval battles. Moreover, the castle suffered the action of the earthquakes which always afflict the region.With the principal aim of detecting the location, depth and geometry of the rests of destroyed structures, a systematic Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) survey was carried out in the area inside the boundary walls. The results are sixty-two one-meter-spaced, filtered and migrated radargrams arranged in four 3D data-sets. From each data-set, the most significant time-slice was extracted.To reduce the ambiguity in the GPR data interpretation, additional geophysical techniques, such as Magnetic (M), and Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT), were carried out with a partial superimposition with the GPR data. A comparison and a joint interpretation amongst different geophysical data pointed out some very remarkable features associated to buried remains and possible buried cannonballs.With the secondary aim to check the presence of an old military walkway linking two bastions a GPR profile was carried out on the sea side boundary wall. The GPR results are in agreement with an ERT survey carried out on the same profile and consistent with the presence of an underground passage.     

辽宁省丹东市新城区活动断裂探测及地震危险性评价

在分析区域地震地质资料的基础上,通过遥感信息解译,现场地震地质调查,控制性钻探和综合地球物理探测等项工作,查明了丹东新城区及附近的地震地质条件,认为新城区的地震危险性主要来自鸭绿江断裂,因此,需要考虑抗震设防。     

The use of MASW method in the assessment of soil liquefaction potential

The multi-channel analysis of surface wave (MASW) method is a non-invasive method recently developed to estimate shear wave velocity profile from surface wave energy. Unlike conventional SASW method, multi-station recording permits a single survey of a broad depth range and high levels of redundancy with a single field configuration. An efficient and unified wavefield transform technique is introduced for dispersion analysis and on site data quality control. The technique was demonstrated in the assessment of soil liquefaction potential at a site in Yuan Lin, Taiwan. The shear wave velocity and liquefaction potential assessments based on MASW method compares favorable to that based on SCPT shear wave measurements. Two-dimensional shear wave velocity profiles were estimated by occupying successive geophone spreads at several sites in central western Taiwan, at some of which sand boils or ground cracks occurred during 1999 Chi Chi earthquake. Liquefaction potential analysis based on MASW imaging was shown to be effective for estimating the extent of potential liquefaction hazard.     

The reduction and analysis of satellite magnetometer data

Analyses of the POGO satellite magnetometer data have demonstrated the basic utility of such measurements to solid earth studies and provided the basis for Magsat, a new satellite specifically designed for such studies. Such data can play a useful role in the compilation, reduction, and analysis of magnetic survey data, especially at regional scales, and are complementary to those obtained in such surveys. However, the reduction and interpretation techniques for satellite magnetometer measurements differ significantly from the techniques routinely applied to conventional data. Although the unequal spacing, in three dimensions, of the satellite data and the variation in the direction and intensity of the main geomagnetic field pose some interpretation problems, these problems can be suitably handled by using modifications of several standard techniques. The variation in altitude of the satellite measurements can also be used to advantage in some analyses.     

云南漾濞地震大理某高层建筑结构地震响应观测数据初步分析

2021年5月21日21时21分至22时32分,云南漾濞先后发生了M5.6级、M6.4级、M5.0级和M5.2级地震,位于大理的某高层建筑结构地震反应观测台阵获取了这4次地震的结构动力响应,观测数据同步性好,数据质量高。该高层建筑为框架剪力墙结构,地上26层,地下1层,三分量加速度测点共8个分别位于建筑的第1层、4层、7层、10层、13层、17层、20层和25层,数据实时传输至中国地震局工程力学研究所燕郊数据中心。本文对结构台阵的观测记录进行了初步分析,绘制建筑结构观测楼层的三向绝对加速度及其傅里叶幅值谱,检验数据同步性和质量,通过滤波和积分得到相对速度和相对位移,利用功率谱方法分析得到频率响应函数,并利用复模态指数函数方法得到两水平方向前三阶模态频率和振型。通过4次地震结构模态频率和振型的初步对比结果表明:主体结构基本完好,这与现场调查结果吻合。该结构台阵获取的前震、主震和余震反应记录,为后续开展深入的模态参数分析、地震损伤识别以及研究框架剪力墙结构的振动特性和抗震性能提供了宝贵数据。     

Effects of Interpolation Errors on the Analysis of DEMs

A suite of methods to interpolate a digital elevation model from a ground survey was evaluated with respect to precision and ability to maintain the shape of the original height data. This shape reliability was evaluated by comparing the spatial patterns of secondary terrain parameters derived from the interpolated elevation data. The best interpolation method for this study area was found to be a spline interpolation, which is somewhat contradictory to findings in the literature. The error and uncertainty found in the results for terrain analysis and modelling tools is important and sometimes distressingly high, even for some frequently used local or context operations on altitude. Positional operations, in which the output is determined more by the position in the topographic structure, seem to give more reliable results. Therefore, the results obtained by terrain analysis and spatial modelling need careful interpretation. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

基于曲波变换的航空电磁数据去噪方法研究

航空电磁法作为一种地形复杂地区资源探测的有效方法,近年来得到了广泛的应用.然而,由于系统所处的动态环境,噪声干扰严重.为了改善航空电磁数据质量,提高地下电性反演的准确性,需要研发相关去噪技术.传统航电去噪大多针对特定噪声或单一测线上的信号进行处理,难以兼顾相邻测线之间观测信号的相关性.本文采用曲波变换进行二维航空电磁数据去噪.由于曲波变换具有多尺度和多方向性特征,可以在对噪声精细分析的基础上进行有效去除,同时还保证了整个测区内信号的相关性.进而,我们提出Sigmoid阈值函数对传统阈值函数进行改进,以进一步改善去噪效果.为了验证曲波变换方法对航空电磁数据去噪的有效性,将曲波变换和传统去噪方法分别应用于理论模型和实测数据进行对比.试验证明本文曲波变换用于航空电磁数据去噪具有明显的优越性.     

Analytical fragility analysis of southern Illinois wall pier supported highway bridges

An analytical fragility analysis was conducted in order to characterize the seismic vulnerability of existing southern Illinois wall pier supported highway bridges to potential earthquakes. To perform this fragility analysis, a detailed inventory survey was first taken of the wall pier bridges identified in an earlier random sampling of southern Illinois priority emergency route bridges. From the survey three types of wall pier bridges were identified. Of those identified, hammerhead and regular wall pier supported bridges represented nearly 90% of the population. Incorporating structural variations determined from the random sample survey, nearly 100 three‐dimensional nonlinear finite element models were constructed. Each model was subjected to a randomly assigned synthetic earthquake representative of those that could potentially occur within the region. From these analyses, a series of wall pier supported bridge fragility curves were produced. In addition, a liquefaction fragility analysis was conducted in order to characterize the seismic vulnerability of southern Illinois wall pier supported highway bridge sites to liquefaction in potential earthquakes. To perform this second fragility analysis, wall pier bridges within the southern Illinois random sample that may be susceptible to liquefaction were identified. A soil profile from each of these susceptible bridge sites was then subjected to randomly assigned bedrock motions, and an Arias intensity liquefaction analysis was carried out. From these analyses, a fragility curve for the potentially liquefiable wall pier supported bridge sites was produced. Overall results of this study indicate that southern Illinois wall pier supported bridges are moderately vulnerable to structural damage in a 2% probability of exceedance in 50 year earthquake, and in some cases they could also be highly vulnerable to on‐site liquefaction events. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

电阻率成像技术研究与应用

层析成像方法的应用,使得物探技术变得更加简捷、高效和经济。本文介绍了电阻率成像的基本概念,讨论了该方法的技术原理,并详细阐述了电阻率成像技术应用于煤矿采空区勘察的操作方式、观测装置、数据处理等技术要素。结合某煤矿采空区勘察的工程实际,介绍了煤矿采空区探测时的测区及布线概况。通过对7条测线数据的解释,详细分析了测量结果,并对电阻率成像技术的发展前景做出了有益的探索。