A multivariate sedimentary environmental analysis of Great South Bay and South Oyster Bay, New York

A multivariate statistical strategy for classifying paleoenvironments is effective for studying modern sedimentary processes in western Great South Bay and South Oyster Bay, New York. The 13 whole phi weight percent variables were tested for redundancy with R-mode cluster analysis. The samples were partitioned statistically into five environmentally significant facies using Q-mode cluster analysis: (A)sandy gravel, (B)sandy silt, (C)silty sand, (D)slightly gravelly sand, and (E)fine sand. An ordination depicted gradational relationships among the samples and the facies. It was used to evaluate the environmental and textural parameter gradients within the sample space. Interpretations obtained in this manner and by examination of the grain-size curves suggest that these sediments were deposited by waves and currents on beaches and in wave zones (facies C and E),shoal areas (facies B),and tidal channels (facies A and D).Tidal currents, wave action, and eelgrass control the distribution of sediments within the two bays.     

A novel random discrete element analysis of rock fragmentation

This paper presents a novel probabilistic approach of random discrete element analysis (RDEA) to investigate the mechanism of rock fragmentation under uniaxial compression. This model combines the advantages of both random field theory and discrete element method in characterizing the spatial variation and uncertainty of microscopic material properties. The numerical results reveal that the stress-strain curves of a group of tests can match well the general trend of the experimental data, with the mean uniaxial compressive strength (UCS) of 10.18 MPa and the mean Young modulus of 1.73 GPa. The coefficient of variation (COV) for the rock samples is much lower than that of the initial random fields of particles because of the averaging effect of microscopic material property in obtaining the bulk values. The rock fragmentation is initiated by the breakage of weak particles within the rock mass, and it develops rapidly as the vertical loading stress approaches the UCS. The final damage zone resides dominantly in the weak region of the rock sample, and the distribution of material property coefficients follows a similar beta distribution as the corresponding initial random field. Rock samples with persistent “pillar-like” structures of strong particles can effectively resist the normal compression, resulting in high rock strengths. The traditional DEM simulation with a set of constant material properties can only represent one extreme realization of random field, which could significantly overestimate the rock strength. The proposed RDEA approach can effectively capture the uncertainty and complex interactions of rock fragmentation in a more realistic and reliable way.     

Prediction of surface blast patterns in limestone quarries using artificial neural networks

This paper is an application of artificial neural networks (ANNs) in the prediction of the geometry of surface blast patterns in limestone quarries. The built model uses 11 input parameters which affect the design of the pattern. These parameters are: formation dip, blasthole diameter, blasthole inclination, bench height, initiation system, specific gravity of the rock, compressive and tensile strength, Young's modulus, specific energy of the explosive and the average resulting fragmentation size. Detailed data from a previous investigation were used to train and verify the network and predict burden and spacing of a blast. The built model was used to conduct parametric studies to show the effect of blasthole diameter and bench height on pattern geometry.     

钻孔内岩石局部爆破破碎若干影响因素分析

钻孔内小自由面条件下对岩矿石局部进行准确地爆破破碎并非易事,这一问题的解决将有助于便捷地通过钻孔获取大量的矿物岩石,提高水溶法采盐、地浸采铀的作业效率,同时使得通过钻孔开采某些具有重大潜在价值的难采矿产成为可能,这无论对钻孔取样还是钻孔采矿都具有重要的意义。论述了钻孔内岩石爆破破碎涉及的技术问题,并对钻孔内岩石爆破破碎若干影响因素进行了分析。在充分考虑各种岩矿赋存条件的基础上,采取合理的加载形式获得钻孔局部岩层较好的爆破破碎效果是可行的。     

硬岩隧道高压气体膨胀破岩开挖试验

为了解决传统钻爆法在隧道工程中振动大的问题,引入一种新型破岩技术--高压气体膨胀破岩技术。通过在某隧道掌子面采用该技术进行现场试验,获得该技术试验时的振动速度值和试验后的破岩效果,将获得的结果与传统钻爆法得到的相应结果进行对比分析,结果表明,高压气体膨胀破岩技术在施工时产生的振动比钻爆法小,证明了将该技术应用在隧道工程中是可行的,解决了该隧道采用钻爆法施工振动风险大的问题,为类似工程破岩提供了一种新途径。     

单临空面岩体中爆破诱发损伤的数值分析

岩石的抗压强度远大于其抗拉强度,所以在单临空面岩体爆破中,工程技术人员关注的不仅是炮孔附近的塑性压剪损伤,更多的是临空面附近的拉裂损伤,临空面若是地表,可能会影响到施工的安全,甚至造成一定的经济损失。以往这类损伤问题的数值模拟中大多只偏向于一方面：或忽略压剪损伤,或不考虑拉裂损伤,故所得出的结论难以满足工程需要。基于合理的应力修正方式,把现有的岩石拉-压损伤本构以简明的方式嵌入到大型LS-DYNA软件中,对单临空面岩体中的柱形和球形药包爆破问题进行了数值模拟,计算结果表明该法能较好地预测岩体中爆破诱发的拉裂、压缩损伤的分布规律和演化趋势。     

Multivariate discriminant analysis of bioclastic turbidites

A piston core from the southern Blake Basin penetrated nine distinct bioclastic carbonate turbidites separated by pelagic terrigenous clay units. X-ray diffraction analysis of the carbonate mineralogy of the graded, laminated, and homogenous units of the individual turbidite units indicated a general loss of unstable carbonates in the homogenous unit beyond that contained in the lower two units. Univariate and multivariate statistical tests were employed to determine the significance of the changes and to determine if different units of a turbidite sequence could be consistently grouped by statistical methods. Principal components, discriminant function, and cluster analysis were used in the multivariate tests. The graded and laminated units were closely related in mineralogy with little significant differences. The mineralogy of the homogenous units was significantly different than that of the other two units except in one example. Cluster analysis generated five groupings of the samples with the end members consisting of graded and laminated units at one end and homogenous units at the other.     

冲击作用下的压头破岩机制研究

与静态岩石破碎过程相比,冲击作用下岩石的应力改变具有时间效应,应力波传播过程中表现出压、拉变化。基于损伤演化原理和有限元数值模拟方法,针对冲击荷载作用下的压头破岩机制进行了模拟分析。为排除边界上反射波的影响,黏弹性边界被纳入计算中。首先论证了黏弹性边界在均质和非均质介质中的计算精度,然后分析了冲击作用下不同均质度的岩石以及砂砾岩的响应规律,结果显示：在弹性情况下,压头与岩石接触边缘以及自由面附近是拉应力分布区,接触边缘拉应力最大。剪应力最高值并不位于接触面附近,而是离接触面有一定距离。较均质岩石主要呈现拉伸破坏模式,先出现赫兹裂缝,然后是径向裂缝和侧向裂缝,拉应力的产生成为诱发裂缝萌生和扩展的主因。当岩石均质度较低时,岩石的破坏形式呈现多元化,剪切破坏比重加大,表现为复杂的拉剪破坏模式。对于砾石粒径较大、含量较多的砂砾岩,砾石和基质的非均匀性不可忽略,冲击下破坏模式以绕粒环行和穿粒破坏为主。总体说来,对于岩石类准脆性材料,应力波传播过程中产生的拉应力是失稳的诱发和扩展的关键。     

Characterization of underground rock fragmentation

Summary This paper focuses on the methodology and techniques developed to characterize the rock fragments produced by blasting in an underground environment. This work formed part of an integrated approach to the optimization of blasting design at a Canadian mine. Details are given of the photographic and image analysis techniques adopted, together with data from a program of full scale, study blasts in the mine. Features of the observed fragmentation are reviewed which related to controlled variation in the blast designs, together with other factors which were observed both to influence fragmentation characteristics and to interact with loading equipment productivity.     

岩体结构对岩石爆破效果的影响

分析了爆破冲击波的传播特点，指出了对岩石破坏最大的是拉伸应力波，并对岩体结构对岩石爆破效果的影响进行了探讨。     

岩体爆破破碎的微观机理

利用扫描对三种岩石的岩体及有机平板玻璃的爆破破碎现象进行了观测,对观测结果进行了分析、对比与讨论,分析了爆破荷载作用下岩体破碎的微观机理。     

Discriminant analysis of a Cretaceous foraminifer using shrunken estimators

Canonical variate analysis of living and fossil organisms, based on morphological characters, can sometimes greatly distort the biological interpretation (i.e., reification) of the coefficients of the eigenvectors forming the canonical variates through the inclusion of redundant within-group directions. Instability is associated with the smallest eigenvalues, particularly if these do not greatly differ from zero. In the present study of 46 borehole samples of the Late Cretaceous foraminifer Afrobolivina afraReyment, stability of the canonical variate coefficients is attained by removal of a near redundant direction of within-group variation. This leads to improved interpretability of the morphometric relationships in this species. on leave from Division of Mathematics and Statistics, CSIRO, Wembley, 6014, Western Australia.     

考虑累积损伤效应的围岩变形特性研究

隧道爆破开挖诱发的动力扰动作用范围往往远大于其开挖进尺,同一部位围岩受到循环爆破开挖的多次扰动普遍存在累积损伤。对乌东德水电站左岸导流洞爆破开挖过程中的爆破振动和围岩变形监测进行了监测和数值分析,基于累积损伤理论,通过引入损伤判据及损伤变量,考虑计算中产生的不同程度的损伤区域的岩体参数劣化,并将劣化后的参数引入相应损伤单元进行后续开挖爆破数值模拟计算,从而对岩体爆破开挖累积损伤效应进行模拟。通过比较乌东德水电站导流洞的实测数据以及数值模拟计算结果发现,考虑累积损伤的计算结果无论是爆破振动速度还是围岩变形均更接近于实测值。对爆破开挖的分析模拟中应考虑围岩的多次循环爆破累积损伤效应。     

Rock mass characterization using photoanalysis

Summary Rock formations are distinguished from each other by measuring first the properties of the intact rock, and second those of the jointing. Whereas simple methods are available for measuring intact rock properties, those available for measuring jointing remain slow, expensive, and sometimes dangerous. Digitized photographs (photoanalysis) may provide a solution. In this paper, the new techniques of photoanalysis are reviewed together with applications, promising areas for research, and also some obstacles that remain to be overcome. Aspects of the rock mass that lend themselves to photoanalytical measurement include those of individual joints, such as persistence, orientation and roughness, and those relating to the mass as a whole, such as block size and the spacing or intensity of jointing. Photoanalysis can also be applied to measurement of blasting. It allows characterization of the rock about to be blasted, helping the engineer to predict fragmentation and to design an appropriate blasting pattern. Afterwards, the same methods can be used to measure fragmentation, overbreak and backbreak, for quality control and for diagnosis of problems.Presented at the 28th US ROck Mechanics Symposium, Tucson, Arizon, 29 June–1 July 1987.     

岩石样品破碎新方法——SelFrag高压脉冲破碎仪

高压脉冲破碎是一项世界先进的样品破碎技术,瑞士的SelFrag A G公司利用这项技术制造出了高压脉冲破碎仪,英文名SelFrag High Voltage Pulse Fragmentor.这个仪器能产生90～200 kV的高压,然后在极短时间里通过高压工作电极放电到水中的固体样品上,这些固体样品会沿着颗粒边界、包裹体、不同物相之间裂解开来,其中岩石中的各种矿物(如锆石、磷灰石)会被完全剥离,并且保持完整的晶形.对比传统的样品破碎方法,这种高选择性的破碎方法有很多优点:容易清洗,没有交叉污染;破碎在水中进行,没有粉尘;没有噪声污染;选择性破碎,不破坏矿物晶形.目前SelFrag高压脉冲破碎仪已应用在地球科学中用于从岩石中挑选矿物,此外,它还应用在电子设备的废物回收方面.     

TBM滚刀破岩的广义粒子动力学数值模拟

提出了一种新的无网格数值模拟计算方法--广义粒子动力学法(GPD),并在GPD算法中引入了粒子损伤理论。运用GPD方法,建立了TBM单滚刀、双滚刀作用下的完整岩体破岩模型,成功模拟了TBM滚刀破岩过程。通过与数值模拟结果及室内试验结果的对比分析,验证了GPD法模拟TBM滚刀破岩过程的有效性。同时,运用GPD方法建立了含节理岩体及高围压条件下岩体的TBM滚刀破岩模型,研究了节理及围压条件下TBM滚动破岩过程。得到了节理对TBM滚刀破岩效率的影响,既可能是促进作用又可能是抑制作用,高围压对TBM滚刀破岩过程中裂纹的起裂及扩展和破岩深度有较大的影响。     

煤与瓦斯突出预测的距离判别分析方法

以煤与瓦斯突出预测为研究对象,选取地质构造、采深、瓦斯放散初速度等10个因素作为预测指标,应用距离判别分析方法建立了煤与瓦斯突出预测模型;结合实际数据,对预测模型进行训练和检验;将该模型用于实际,预测结果符合实际情况。     

多元统计分析在普朗斑岩型铜矿床中的应用

普朗斑岩型铜矿是云南格咱岛弧成矿带中印支期斑岩型铜矿床的典型代表。本文应用聚类分析、因子分析方法对普朗斑岩型铜矿成矿岩体中微量元素进行了分析和科学分类。根据普朗复式斑(玢)岩体的地质条件和微量元素地球化学特征,从理论角度定性分析和定量分析均确定了普朗复式岩体存在明显的Cu-Au-Ag矿化异常,主成矿元素Cu与Au、Ag、Mo、W等具有较好的相关性,且局部存在中―低温的Pb、Zn矿化异常组合。矿床的形成与印支期中酸性斑(玢)岩体的侵入有密切的联系,成矿作用具多期多阶段性。