Extralunar materials in Cone-Crater soil 14141

Radiochemical neutron activation analysis has been used to determine Ni, Zn, Ga, Ge, Cd, In, Ir and Au in duplicate samples of lunar soil 14141 and one additional replicate each of soils 14163 and 14259. The concentrations of extralunar trace elements Ni, Ge, Ir and Au in 14141 and 14163 are, respectively, about 69 and 82 per cent as high as those in 14259. Although most of the mass of 14141 appears to be ejecta from Cone Crater, a sizable contamination by mature Fra Mauro soil such as 14259 is also present. The siderophilic-element concentrations of the subregolith Fra Mauro materials are estimated to be 25 ± 25 per cent of those observed in 14259.     

Mobility of organic solvents in water-saturated soil materials

This investigation presents an analysis of the mobility of 37 organic solvents in saturated soil-water systems, focusing on adsorption phenomena at the solid-liquid interface This analysis was made, in part, by applying predictive expressions that estimate the potential magnitude of adsorption by soil materials Of the 37 solvents considered, 19 were classified as either “very highly mobile” or “highly mobile” and, thus, would have little tendency to be retained by soils to a significant extent, 12 were considered to have medium mobility and 6 low mobility None of these solvents were in the immobile class The limited information available indicates that these predictive expressions yield satisfactory first approximations of the magnitude of adsorption of these solvents by soil materials     

Effects of coarse-grained materials on properties of residual soil

Residual soils are generally characterised by a low coefficient of permeability and high shrinkage potential. Several soil improvement methods can be applied to overcome these problems, including mixing the residual soil with coarse-grained soils. In order to study the effects of varying coarse-grained materials on the hydraulic properties and shrinkage characteristics of residual soils, a local residual soil was mixed with different percentages of a gravelly sand and a medium sand. The hydraulic properties and shrinkage potential of the residual soil and the soil mixtures were investigated. The measurements showed that increasing the amount of coarse-grained materials increased the saturated permeability and reduced the shrinkage potential of the residual soil mixture. Increasing the amount of coarse-grained materials in the residual soil produced changes in several key parameters of soil-water characteristic curve (e.g., the slope, the air-entry value, the residual matric suction, and the residual volumetric water content), as well as the unsaturated permeabilities of the soil mixtures.     

轻质土密度、强度与材料组成的关系研究

论述了轻质土试样的制备方法,对轻质土密度、无侧限抗压强度与材料组成之间的关系进行的研究表明：密度主要受到EPS颗粒添加量的影响;无侧限抗压强度主要受到水泥添加量、EPS颗粒添加量的影响。在此基础上给出了适合于工程应用的轻质土的配方公式。     

Assessment of isotopically exchangeable Al in soil materials using Al tracer

The solubility of aluminium (Al) in many acidic soils is controlled by complexation reactions with soil organic matter. In such soils, Al solubility is theoretically a function of the pool size of “active” Al, i.e., the total amount of Al that equilibrates with the soil solution within a defined period of time. To date, no reliable measurements of “active” Al in soil materials exist. In this study, we determined the isotopically exchangeable pool of Al (E_Al) as an operationally defined assessment of “active” Al in acidic mineral soils. The suitability of CuCl₂ and pyrophosphate (Na₄P₂O₇) as extractants for “active” Al was also evaluated. Eleven samples, mostly from spodic B horizons, were spiked with carrier-free ²⁶Al and equilibrated for different time periods (1-756 h). The size of the Al pool with which the ²⁶Al tracer exchanged increased with time during the whole experimental period. Thus, contact time between solid and solution phases needs to be defined when assessing the “active” Al pool. Values of E_Al obtained after 1 to 5 d of equilibration were equal to the amount of CuCl₂ extractable Al, but considerably smaller than the Na₄P₂O₇-extractable pool. Equilibration times greater than 5 d resulted in CuCl₂ extractable Al concentrations that under-estimated the “active” Al pool. Three of the investigated samples were rich in imogolite-type materials (ITM). In these samples, 30-50 % of the added ²⁶Al rapidly became associated with soil constituents in forms that could not be extracted by Na₄P₂O₇, indicating that a part of ITM may be in a dynamic state.     

Cd-As复合污染农田土壤修复材料的筛选

Cd和As两种污染物的离子电荷不同,化学性质迥异,因此Cd和As复合型重金属污染的土壤修复难度大。某地农田土壤呈弱碱性,因受老旧废弃垃圾填埋场的影响变为弱酸性,土壤样品中Cd和As均超标,有效态含量高,水稻样品超标率＞15.4%。实验室小试证明:生石灰可以降低Cd的活性,升高As的有效态,综合修复效果差;活性炭和矿物“微胶囊”因其吸附机制可同时降低Cd和As的有效态含量;活性炭钝化Cd的短期效应相与矿物“微胶囊”相当,钝化As的短期效应相比矿物“微胶囊”有一定的优势;矿物“微胶囊”的长期钝化效应最好,2年观察周期后活性炭效果归零,而矿物“微胶囊”效果稳定持续,有效态去除率最终可达90%。3种材料修复Cd和As复合污染型耕地土壤的综合性能筛选结果为矿物“微胶囊”（优）＞活性炭＞生石灰（差）。     

Measurement of radon exhalation rate in various building materials and soil samples

Indoor radon is considered as one of the potential dangerous radioactive elements. Common building materials and soil are the major source of this radon gas in the indoor environment. In the present study, the measurement of radon exhalation rate in the soil and building material samples of Una and Hamirpur districts of Himachal Pradesh has been done with solid state alpha track detectors, LR-115 type-II plastic track detectors. The radon exhalation rate for the soil samples varies from 39.1 to 91.2 mBq kg^?1 h^?1 with a mean value 59.7 mBq kg^?1 h^?1. Also the radium concentration of the studied area is found and it varies from 30.6 to 51.9 Bq kg^?1 with a mean value 41.6 Bq kg^?1. The exhalation rate for the building material samples varies from 40.72 (sandstone) to 81.40 mBq kg^?1 h^?1 (granite) with a mean value of 59.94 mBq kg^?1 h^?1.     

高水速凝材料-软土微观结构的SEM研究

高水速凝材料是一种新型的固体混合材料,它与普通硅酸盐水泥相比有许多独特的特点：(1) 水用量大;(2) 速凝早强;(3) 可泵时间长;(4) 良好的塑性特性;(5) 极限荷载后强度具再发展性能。虽然,高水速凝材料在煤炭和冶金系统得到了较广泛的应用,取得了较好的技术经济效益,然而,在其它领域还未曾应用过。为了探索高水速凝材料在软土地基方面的应用前景,笔者采用扫描电镜研究了高水速凝材料-软土凝固体的微观结构。研究结果表明,纯土的土颗粒之间只有原生矿物的几何堆积,而没有牢固的连接。但由于高水速凝材料的加入,彻底改变了土体结构。在高水速凝材料-软土凝固体中,主体结构为钙矾石结晶体形成的“空间网状结构”;辅助结构为在碱性环境中土颗粒之间的离子交换、团粒化作用和碳酸化作用所形成的微晶体与凝胶体结构。因此,高水速凝材料在地基处理方面具有较好的应用前景。     

SH材料加固夯筑遗址土耐久性试验及机理研究

以添加SH材料加固的明长城古浪段夯筑遗址土为研究对象,对其重塑样进行紫外老化试验、冻融循环试验及耐盐、耐碱试验,研究其力学强度特征及耐久性能,并采用扫描电镜（SEM）、EDS能谱分析以及粒度分析研究SH材料加固夯筑遗址土的机理。试验结果表明,经紫外老化的SH固化后试样的无侧限抗压强度随老化时间增长呈先增后降,SH含量高的试样强度呈一直增长的趋势;随着冻融循环次数的增加,试样的无侧限抗压强度逐渐降低,质量损失率逐渐增加,其中SH固含量为0.8%的试样表现出极好的耐冻性能;相比素土,加固后的试样耐盐、耐碱性能明显有所提高。由机理分析得出,SH材料主要通过团聚、氢键、架桥和包裹等作用使土颗粒排列紧密、增强连接性,提高了遗址土的各种性能;SH材料加固夯筑遗址土具有良好的耐久性能。     

花岗岩残积土填料路用工程特性室内试验研究

为了研究花岗岩残积土的路用工程特性,通过击实试验、承载比CBR试验、固结试验以及室内基床系数试验分析了该类材料压实性能及基本力学特性,对压实度为92%的最优含水率和饱和压实土样进行了循环加载试验,研究了动力荷载作用下土体的变形特性。结果表明,花岗岩残积土在K为91%～97%时压实功效率较高,提高压实度对于增强土体局部抗变形能力较为有效;采用室内三轴法得到的基床系数K30值为188.25 MPa/m;最优含水率下花岗岩残积土动力变形稳定性较好,但含水率增加会大幅度增加土体塑性变形,降低土的动弹性模量,不利于变形稳定。所以作为路堤填料,应考虑作为受气候与动荷载影响较小的下路堤备用填料,作为铁路路堤本体及公路上、下路路床填料,应在进行土性改良且满足要求的论证基础上取舍。研究成果可为花岗岩残积土填料的工程应用及土体改良提供技术参考。     

Changes of biochemical properties and heavy metal bioavailability in soil treated with natural liming materials

This study evaluated the efficiency of naturally occurring lime-based waste materials (oyster shells, eggshells, and mussel shells) on immobilization of selected heavy metals (Cd and Pb) and a metalloid (As) in a contaminated agricultural soil. A 30-day incubation experiment was performed using soil mixture with natural liming materials or calcite (CaCO₃) at 0, 1, 3, 5, and 10 wt %. Soil biochemical properties including pH, electrical conductivity (EC), exchangeable cations, organic matter (OM), total nitrogen (TN), microbial populations, and enzyme activities were determined to ensure the changes in soil quality during incubation. The results showed that the application of natural liming materials led to an increase in soil pH similar to that of CaCO₃. Soil concentrations of Cd, Pb, and As extracted with 0.1 or 1 M HCl, and diethylene triamine pentacetic acid (DTPA) were decreased significantly after adding liming materials, accompanied by increased microbial population and enzyme activities of dehydrogenase, phosphatase, β-glucosidase, and arylsulfatase. Additionally, eggshells and mussel shells induced significant increases in OM and TN in the soil. Application of natural liming materials offers a cost-effective way to immobilize heavy metals and metalloids in soils.     

On the soil water characteristic curves of poorly graded granular materials in aqueous polymer solutions

Tempe cell with a self-developed horizontal hanging column attachment was used to measure the soil water characteristic curves (SWCCs) of granular materials initially saturated with either water or polymer solutions. For SWCCs of six poorly graded granular materials with d ₅₀ ranging from 0.04 to 0.7 mm in water, it was found that (1) as grain size decreases, air entry value increases, and matric suction (ψ) for the funicular and pendular regimes increases and that (2) steep desaturation curves over narrow ψ range in the funicular regime were observed. Air entry values obtained from the fitting parameter 1/α in van Genuchten SWCC equation fall in the boundaries calculated from the pore throat sizes in both simple cubic and face-centered cubic packings. A toroidal meniscus water model, which incorporates the measured surface tension and contact angle values between aqueous solutions and solid surfaces, was proposed for the SWCC in pendular regime and was compared to well-received numerical methods. This toroid model successfully depicts SWCC of poorly graded granular materials in water. However, SWCCs predicted by this toroid model underestimate the degree of saturation in the pendular regime for Ottawa 20–30 sands in polymer solutions. Herschel–Bulkley fluid, which is a type of non-Newtonian fluids, is postulated to increase the ψ needed to drain the polymer solution due to the nonzero shear stress intercept. In addition, it is also postulated by scanning electron microscopy and optical confocal imaging results that the rough surfaces of Ottawa 20–30 sand, which have many micron-sized “kinks”, together with the possible chemical attractions, help retain the polymer solutions on the solid surfaces, or water film.     

Determination of trace and rare-earth elements in Chinese soil and clay reference materials by ICP-MS

Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry(ICP-MS) has become a powerful tool for providing reliable analytical results in many laboratories around the word. In this study, the mixture of HF and HNO3 acids in high-temperature and high-pressure closed-vessel digestion technique were used to decompose some Chinese reference materials, and thirty seven elements were determined by ICP-MS. Most of the results for Chinese soil reference materials were found to be in reasonable agreement with the reference values, except Cs, Ta, Li, Ge, Zn, Nd, Tb and Ta whose values need to be revised. Their precisions were typically lower than 5% RSD. However, the Precisions of Chinese clay reference materials, especially for GBW03102 and GBW03102a, were significantly different with reference values, probably reflecting the existence of a coarser-grained fraction(70 μm) in samples, and the formation of fluorides in Al-rich samples during sample decomposition by using the mixture of HF and HNO3 acids. Moreover, thirty-seven trace elements covering the mass range from Li to U in four Chinese clay reference materials were firstly provided with good precision and accuracy in this study.     

A constitutive model for granular materials with grain crushing and its application to a pyroclastic soil

A constitutive model for granular materials is developed within the framework of strain–hardening elastoplasticity, aiming at describing some of the macroscopic effects of the degradation processes associated with grain crushing. The central assumption of the paper is that, upon loading, the frictional properties of the material are modified as a consequence of the changes in grain size distribution. The effects of these irreversible microscopic processes are described macroscopically as accumulated plastic strain. Plastic strain drives the evolution of internal variables which model phenomenologically the changes of mechanical properties induced by grain crushing by controlling the geometry of the yield locus and the direction of plastic flow. An application of the model to Pozzolana Nera is presented. The stress–dilatancy relationship observed for this material is used as a guidance for the formulation of hardening laws. One of the salient features of the proposed model is its capability of reproducing the stress–dilatancy behaviour observed in Pozzolana Nera, for which the minimum value of dilatancy always follows the maximum stress ratio experienced by the material. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

基于CT无损扫描技术的冻土内部物质研究现状与分析

CT无损动态扫描技术在土壤领域的成功应用,为冻土内部结构及变化的定量化研究提供了有效手段。通过总结和分析现有关于冻土的基于CT断层扫描图像的研究成果,阐明CT扫描技术在冻土研究中的4个关键环节,即冻土样本的制备、冻土CT图像的获取、冻土CT图像处理及分析,并指出在现有CT技术条件下冻土研究中存在的问题,针对性提出了将先进的图像处理技术与高效的图像分析手段和冻土研究相结合的解决方案,为冻土内部结构的定量研究与分析提供技术指导,进而为CT无损动态扫描技术在冻土领域的广泛应用奠定基础。     

酸雨石等5种常用吸盐材料的盐碱土壤改良效果研究

以黑龙江省大庆市林甸县长青林场3个不同小区为实验地,分别采用酸雨石等5种吸盐材料对不同小区盐碱土壤进行改良,根据改良后土壤pH、导电率变化,对不同材料的盐碱土壤改良效果进行比较。研究表明,短期内吸盐速率:酸雨石活性炭腐熟牛粪沸石稻壳,长期吸盐量:酸雨石活性炭沸石稻壳腐熟牛粪,效果持久性为酸雨石最强,活性炭、沸石次之,稻壳较弱,腐熟牛粪最弱。酸雨石解碱能力最强,活性炭次之,沸石、牛粪、稻壳解碱能力较弱。因此,酸雨石在5种盐碱土改良剂中具有最强吸盐解碱能力。     

水泥基渗透结晶型防水材料对硫铝酸盐水泥固化土性能影响及机制分析

水泥土固化过程中Ca2+浓度会随水化反应的进行而逐步降低,导致水泥颗粒未完全水化,固化土强度增长受限,而水泥基渗透结晶型防水材料（CCCW）中活性物质能催化未水化水泥颗粒反应。选择硫铝酸盐水泥（SAC）为胶凝材料、CCCW为添加剂,通过单掺与复掺的方式,结合X射线衍射（XRD）、电镜扫描（SEM）表征,分析了固化土的无侧限抗压强度、水稳定性、耐干湿循环性能及微观结构。结果表明,复掺16%混合料（4%CCCW+12%SAC）的固化土强度是同掺量下单掺SAC固化土强度的1.5倍,且比单掺20%SAC的固化土强度高1.41 MPa;复掺16%混合料（4%CCCW+12%SAC）的固化土泡水2～8 d软化系数平均达0.97,而同掺量下SAC固化土平均仅为0.73;单掺的固化土强度随干湿循环次数增加逐级降低,而复掺混合料的固化土强度呈波浪式发展;CCCW中活性物质能增加固化土中钙矾石生成量并修复微裂缝,钙矾石长径比显著增大,可直接连接两个甚至多个土颗粒,形成三维网状结构,显著提高结晶体的微观加筋、骨架及填充作用,改善SAC固化土强度、水稳定性及耐干湿循环性能。     

Mode of formation and geotechnical characteristics of laterite materials of Ghana in relation to soil forming factors

Fairly intimate knowledge about the nature, index properties and engineering behaviour of temperate-zone soils has been built up over the years; from knowledge of particles-size distribution and plasticity it has been possible to fairly accurately infer their engineering behaviour based upon the characteristics of other soils of similar classification. As yet, however, no straightforward relationship exists for laterite materials and the particle-size distribution and plasticity do not permit useful correlations between laboratory test results and field behaviour.     

粗粒含量对散体岩土颗粒破碎及强度特性试验研究

明显的粒径分级和深部土的颗粒破碎是超高排土场的两个主要特征。基于改装后的大型两用直剪仪对不同粗粒含量的颗粒破碎和抗剪强度进行试验研究。颗粒破碎试验结果表明：垂直压力小于400 kPa的情况下破碎率极小,在垂直压力大于400 kPa时,随垂直压力的增大破碎率增加明显;粗粒含量小于46.0%时,相对破碎率较小,粗粒含量大于46%时,颗粒破碎率随粗粒含量的增加而明显增大;相对破碎率与垂直压力可用双曲线关系表示;长期浸泡于水中的土样颗粒破碎相当明显。剪切强度试验结果表明：在粗粒含量等于24%时,低垂直压力下的剪应力-应变曲线呈微软化或微硬化型,较高垂直压力下呈轻微软化型;在粗粒含量等于78%时,低垂直压力下其剪应力-应变曲线呈软化型,较高垂直压力下表现为轻微硬化型。较高垂直压力下的抗剪强度包线呈明显的非线性。当颗粒破碎率较小时,分别在垂直压力小于400 kPa和大于400 kPa时拟合的内摩擦角值变化不大;当颗粒破碎率明显增大时,垂直压力大于400 kPa时的内摩擦角值明显低于垂直压力小于400 kPa时拟合的内摩擦角值。     

Soil parent materials and soil properties in two separate catchment areas on the Jos Plateau, Nigeria

On the Jos Plateau, soils derived from basalt and volcanic ash are much more intensively and extensively utilized for agricultural purposes than the granite soils. This study was carried out to determine the differences that may have contributed to this discrimination. Twenty four soil profiles were dug and described in two separate catchment areas that really portray the variance. Soil samples were analysed using standard procedures. The results show that basalt and volcanic ash-derived soils have relatively deeper profiles, lower bulk density, higher contents of clay, organic matter, exchangeable bases, micro-nutrients (Cu & Zn) and weatherable minerals. They are also higher in their CEC and base saturation percentage while available water capacity, hydraulic conductivity and natural water content are more adequate in them. Hence, the basalt and volcanic ash soils are more favourable for crop growth while the deficiencies in granite soils present more constraints to agricultural land use. Consequently, there are differences between the soil types in their crop-yielding capacities. These differences constitute a reflection of soil parent material influence. Agriculture in the area is mainly low-input. There is the need for improved management practices for the enhancement of soil conditions of granite areas in particular and the whole area in general. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.