Acoustic emission characteristics of a dry sandy soil subjected to drained triaxial compression

Acoustic emission (AE) technique that is capable of diagnosing the failure process of stressed materials has rarely reported its application to sandy soils subjected to triaxial compression. In this paper, drained triaxial compression tests incorporating with a high-performance AE measurement system were conducted for dry sands with different confining stresses and initial relative densities. Generally, an increased confining stress or initial relative density generates more acoustic emissions, while there also exist exceptions due to different failure patterns. A good resemblance between stress–strain and AE hit rate–strain relations was observed, and power functions between the mechanical parameters and AE hit rate were well established regardless of different confining stresses and initial relative densities. Besides, the behavioral state of yield and peak during compression could be also evaluated by AE hit rate, compared with conventional stress–strain determination. Particularly, the peak AE hit rate is found not always synchronous to but fluctuating at around the peak stress depending on different failure patterns, which might provide beneficial insights into the incipient failure of sands. The present good consistencies suggest that AE characteristics could be used as alternative parameters to evaluate and even predict the mechanical behavior of dry sands.

     

祁连山东部高温天气气候分析和预报

通过对１９８０～１９９７年祁连山东部武威、民勤日最高气温≥３４℃日数统计得出,高温天气主要集中在７～８月;分析了高温出现的天气形势和气候规律,从而建立相应的高温短期预报工具。     

地理学参与健康中国建设的重点领域与行动建议

健康与环境关系是最基本的人地关系,“健康中国”建设需要地理学参与。地理学能为健康中国建设提供基于发展战略、过程评价和政策导向的路径指引,基于人地关系和谐和空间系统优化的理论指导,基于健康生活引导、健康服务优化、健康环境营造、健康保障决策、健康产业布局的实践指南。地理学参与健康中国建设,可在居民健康素养、健康生活方式与时空行为、区域人群心理健康,重点人群健康服务、重大疾病监测防控、重点区域健康促进,健康大数据与信息系统、医疗卫生资源优化配置、健康服务可达性与公平性,气候变化的健康应对、健康生态环境建设、环境健康风险治理、健康城市（环境）建设、健康乡村（环境）建设、健康文化景观建设,道地药材开发与中医药产业布局、康养旅游与健身休闲产业布局、养老服务与妇婴产业布局等18个领域发挥独特优势。地理学参与健康中国建设还存在地理科学的健康基础薄弱、地理学者的参与意识不强、地理组织的政策支持不够等问题,需要强化问题导向和目标导向的健康地理学的理论、实证和政策研究,强化地理应用技术与地理科学思维深度融合的健康促进研究,强化地理组织对地理学者参与健康中国建设的系统引领与政策支持。     

Triaxial tests on the fluidic behavior of post-liquefaction sand

Liquefaction-induced ground deformation is a major cause of structural damage during earthquakes. However, a better understanding of seismic liquefaction is needed to improve earthquake hazard analyses and mitigate structural damage. In this paper, a dynamic triaxial test apparatus was employed to investigate the fluidic characteristics of post-liquefaction sand. The specimens were vibrated to the point of liquefaction by dynamic loading, and then the liquefied sand was further sheared by triaxial compression in an undrained manner. It was found that a non-Newtonian fluid model can accurately describe the shear stress and the shear strain rate of post-liquefaction sand during undrained triaxial compression. The apparent viscosity, a major parameter in a constitutive model of a non-Newtonian fluid, decreases with an increase in the shear strain rate.     

武威市寒潮天气气候分析及预报

利用武威市5站(民勤、凉州区、永昌、古浪、乌鞘岭)近50a寒潮天气资料,分析了寒潮天气的气候特征及其出现的天气环流背景,运用天气学方法建立该市分月寒潮天气的预报工具．在“武威市灾害天气预警服务系统”中发挥了良好的预报作用,适用于河西走廊中东部的寒潮天气预报。具有很好的推广应用价值。     

基于地理国情普查的海绵城市下沉式绿地的分析研究——以武汉市江汉区为例

海绵城市是城市建设的新理念,全国正在推进海绵城市建设,为解决城市内涝,缓解城市建设对城市水文、环境的负面影响,在技术层面为海绵城市提供服务。文章采用现势性最强的地理国情普查数据,采用空间数据分析方法,通过定量计算分析了海绵城市建设中的下沉式绿地的现状与分布,为海绵城市建设的研究提供了技术支撑,同时也为地理国情普查更好地服务社会提供了可靠、准确、权威的地理信息服务。     

New type of potassium deposit: Modal analysis and preparation of potassium carbonate

A new type of insoluble potassium ore, newly found in North China, consists of microcline, dolomite, and pyroclastic particles of silty to clayey grade, falling into potassic dolomitic mudstone in petrological no-menclature. The geological surveys and explorations of the deposit by the Tianjin Bureau of Geological Survey evidenced that the main bodies of the potas-sium deposit elongated up to 1600 m with an average thickness about 85 m, and the concentration of potas-sium as K2O was around 1…     

A study on particle breakage behavior during pile penetration process using acoustic emission source location

Particle breakage is a common occurrence in granular systems when the external stress exceeds the individual particle strength.A large number of experimental evidences suggested that particle breakage may significantly influence the soil behavior.In the case of pile foundations,the subsoil below the pile tip experiences considerable high stress and consequently prone to break.Due to the lack of sufficient understanding on particle breakage mechanism,there is currently no consentaneous theoretical background for particle breakage analysis during the pile penetration process.This study aims to clarify the location of particle breakage and its evolving characteristics with the aid of acoustic emission(AE)source location method.The spatial distribution of AE hypocenters is interpreted to be associated with the mechanism of particle breakage.Results showed that the AE sources were not uniformly distributed,but concentrated within certain zones below the pile tip.This AE concentration zone was pushed downward with the advancing pile tip,and its distance from the real time pile tip position decreased after certain depth of pile penetration.The location of particle breakage interpreted from AE source location was verified with posttest excavations and the insights on the particle breakage evolution zone were further discussed.     

First results derived from a drop-tower testing system for granular flow in a microgravity environment

Because of the low-gravity on the Moon and Mars, landslides there have characteristics that are very different from those observed in a conventional gravity environment. These include highly marked dynamic characteristics, evidence of fierce movement at high speed and on a large scale. One of the key problems in extra-planetary exploration is understanding the behavior of granular material flows under the influence of low gravity. A drop-tower testing system situated in Beijing has been developed and used to investigate granular flow in a microgravity environment. A set of granular flow tests was performed in both normal and microgravity environments, during which the configurations of sand flows were captured by the monitoring system. Preliminary results provide fundamental information for the future exploration of planetary landscapes.     

Numerical simulation of air–soil two-phase flow based on turbulence modeling

Soil flow and induced air blasts are of great harm to humanity, and historically they have caused a lot of damage to infrastructure. However, these phenomena cannot be described by traditional analog modeling methods that limit their use in disaster prevention efforts. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is an applied technique commonly used in a range of fields including the chemical industry, and aircraft and automobile manufacturing, but little is reported on the use of this method to simulate flowing soil in geotechnical engineering applications. The CFD method can effectively make up for the deficiency of normal calculation methods in the analysis of soil flow and air blasts. This paper uses the FLUENT (version 6.3) CFD calculation software to simulate the processes of soil flow and induced air blast changes during soil flow with an Eulerian air–soil two-phase model included in a standard k-ε turbulence model. Velocity vectors of air blasts at different times during soil flow are obtained, and the characteristics of turbulent flow can be found based on the velocity vectors. The numerical simulation techniques adopted in this paper captured precise configurations of soil flow. The results show that the CFD method is especially suitable for simulating the process of soil flow; hazard assessments can be implemented, and the performance of structures involved with disaster prevention can be improved based on the numerical simulation of changing air blasts.