Discrete element analysis of the influence of bolt pattern and spacing on the force-displacement response of bolted steel mesh

Steel wire mesh held by a pattern of bolts can be used to stabilize a rock slope. Knowledge of the force-displacement response of steel mesh is essential in the design of this support system. Laboratory tests have been used to test mesh that is held to rigid steel frames. These testing conditions differ from how steel mesh is held in the field by bolts. The existing laboratory test data may underestimate the deformation and overestimate the load-bearing capacity of the steel mesh. This paper focuses on the response of the high tensile strength steel mesh held by commonly used bolt patterns. Discrete element models were used to study the force-displacement response of the steel mesh pinned by bolts. The influences of different bolt patterns and varying ratios of bolt spacing on the effectiveness of steel wire mesh were analyzed. Relationships between the resistance force of steel mesh and bolt density at various mesh deformations were developed. These relationships can help engineers choose the bolt spacing and provide an estimate of the resistance force that a steel mesh can mobilize at a desired deformation limit for a given bolt pattern.     

Influence of a point sink on a pile group in saturated multilayered soils with anisotropic permeability

The behavior of a pile group is solved using the finite element method, and the fundamental solution of saturated multilayered soils with anisotropic permeability is obtained by the analytical layer element method. Based on the supposition of no slip occurring at the pile‐soil interface, the governing equations of the interaction between the pile group and the soils due to a point sink are established in the Laplace‐Hankel transformed domain by considering the pile‐soil compatibility condition. Numerical results are presented to study the effect of point sink pumping, the properties of soils, and the geometries of piles on the behavior of the pile group.     

Assessing the effects of the Three Gorges Dam and upstream inflow change on the downstream flow regime during different operation periods of the dam

As the largest hydroelectric dam in the world, the Three Gorges Dam (TGD) has raised wide concerns over the environmental and ecological impacts since its dramatic effect on the downstream flow regime of the Yangtze River. Since 2003, the TGD has progressed from the initial operation period to the full operation period, with different effects on the downstream flow regime over each period. Although the upstream inflow change (USIC) of the TGD is a possibly additional factor affecting the downstream flow regime, this has drawn little attention. This study aims to quantify the individual contributions of the TGD and the USIC to the changes of the downstream flow regime over different operation periods of the dam. Using the Muskingum routing model and the Xin'anjiang rainfall–run‐off model, we reconstruct the discharge unregulated by the TGD for the post‐TGD period from 2003 to 2015. On this basis, the effects of the TGD and the USIC on the downstream flow regime are quantitatively assessed. Benchmarked against the flow regime during the pre‐TGD period from 1955 to 2002, it is found that the TGD and the USIC play considerable and comparable roles in affecting the downstream flow regime during the whole post‐TGD period from 2003 to 2015. Furthermore, the TGD appears to have a limited effect on the downstream flow regime during the initial operation period from 2003 to 2008 relative to the USIC. In contrast, during the full operation period from 2009 to 2015, the TGD plays a dominant role in changing the downstream flow regime, although the effect of the USIC cannot be neglected. The findings of this study are helpful to understand the exact impacts of the TGD on the downstream flow regime, thereby facilitating the development of a rational strategy for operating the dam.     

面向地理国情监测的变化检测与地表覆盖信息更新方法

常态化地理国情监测能够全面、动态地掌握地理国情信息及其变化,为经济建设和社会发展提供数据基础。地理国情普查成果是按照统一规范标准、经过内业解译和外业核查形成的矢量数据。如何在普查成果的基础上,利用多时相遥感影像实现变化信息提取与更新是地理国情监测的关键。针对地理国情普查成果的特点与监测需求,以多时相遥感影像处理分析为基础,构建了针对地理国情监测的变化检测方法体系,提出了像元—对象结合的多时相影像变化检测、基于对象实体统计分析的变化识别方法,实现了综合地理国情普查成果和遥感影像的地理国情变化检测与数据更新。基于像元—对象结合的多时相影像变化检测首先根据传统的变化矢量分析法提取基于像元的变化检测结果,再以地理国情普查的矢量对象为统计单元计算对象内变化像元的比例,以此判断该矢量对象是否发生了变化,并根据变化像元的比例计算其变化强度。基于对象实体统计分析的变化检测方法直接以地理国情矢量为对象进行特征提取和差异构造,再将差异影像进行阈值分割得到基于地理国情对象的变化检测图。最后,根据变化检测结果,对变化区域进行面向对象分割,并从上一期未变化区域选取训练样本训练分类器模型以得到变化区域的地表覆盖类型,将变化区域与未变化区域结合得到更新后的地理国情矢量图。选取江阴市地理国情普查成果和两期高分辨率遥感影像进行试验,结果表明本文提出的方法在准确提取和解释变化区域的同时,明显提高了变化检测和数据更新的效率,可用于常态化地理国情监测。     

Numerical investigation of the effect of seasonal variations of depthof-closure on shoreline evolution

The current study presents the effects of seasonal variations in the depth-of-closure(Dc)on shoreline evolution using a numerical,one-line shoreline model.Beach erosion of the southern beach of the Nha Trang Coast,which is located in south central of Vietnam,is selected as the study area.This study area is immensely influenced by the tropical monsoon climate that has a clear pattern of large waves in the northeast monsoon season and calm waves in the non-monsoon season.The analysis of the long-term measured shoreline variations from a video-camera system has found a strong correlation of these variations to the monsoon-dominated wave characteristics in the Nha Trang Bay.Therefore,a new approach for determining the depth-of-closure with consideration of the seasonal wave climate changes is purposed in the current study.By implementing this new approach into a numerical,one-line shoreline model,it is found that the seasonal variations of Dc appear to better describe the periodical shoreline evolution due to the monsoon-dominated wave characteristics for the Nha Trang Coast.Such important findings are considered to commonly apply for monsoon-dominated coastal regions in general.These findings are useful information not only for scientific readers but also for the coastal authorities and managers in order to make better countermeasure plans against this kind of erosion mechanism in the future.     

安徽宁国市梅岭隧道王程地质问题研究

通过对梅岭隧道方案3和梅岭隧道方案4的比较研究,从野外测量得出的数据分析了梅岭隧道及其周围的构造特征和变形特性。阐明了梅岭隧道所涉岩体的节理特征、断层特征以及围岩产状特征,从而分析它们对隧道稳定性的影响和由此可能产生的各种工程地质灾害,并且提出了在设计、施工梅岭隧道时应注意的几个问题。     

内蒙古宁城早中生代地幔捕虏体及熔/流体交代作用

内蒙古宁城地区发现的尖晶石二辉橄榄岩捕虏体,其寄主岩为早中生代堆晶成因的辉石岩。尖晶石二辉橄榄岩在矿物组成和Sr、Nd、Pb同位素特征等方面区别于寄主辉石岩,具有地幔岩特征。相对原始地幔岩,尖晶石二辉橄榄岩具有Fe高,Mg、Al低,富集K、Na、Ca、LREE和Rb、Sr、Ba、Th等不相容元素的特征,据此可以认为捕虏体来源于交代的富集地幔。对熔/流体交代反应形成的结构及其交代矿物金云母、韭闪石、白云石、方解石的进一步研究,揭示富K、Al、Ca、LREE和不相容元素的硅酸质和碳酸质熔/流体的交代作用致使地幔岩向不断饱满和富集的趋势演化,导致地幔岩Mg#值、Fo值的降低,Al和其他不相容元素的增高。单斜辉石环带原位微量元素测定也证实交代作用的存在。剪切结构的发育可能与软流圈底辟体上涌引发的塑性流变有关。联系华北古老岩石圈地幔多次的地质事件,笔者认为,早中生代地幔的特征与华北克拉通长期以来自身的深部演化有关。     

显生宙烃源岩分布的古板块再造研究

提要：本文依据古地磁方法对不同时期的全球古板块进行再造,并在此基础上叠加了全球大地构造背景、洋流系统、气候带分布以及岩相古地理等要素,共编制了11个时间段古板块格局下的全球烃源岩分布图。综合各种地质要素可以看出烃源岩在时间和空间分布上具有强烈不均匀的特征,在时间上,中、新生代烃源岩无论是从分布范围,还是厚度上,都较古生代更为发育;在空间上,全球显生宙海相烃源岩主要分布于陆棚及斜坡相、台内坳陷等环境,而陆相烃源岩则主要分布在湖盆中心。烃源岩的沉积和保存受到超大陆旋回的控制,超大陆汇聚过程中陆架和适宜陆缘的消失不利于烃源岩的沉积和保存,反之亦然。较高的海平面以及上升流的存在是烃源岩发育的有利条件,全球优质烃源岩富含的有机质泥页岩多发育于海侵体系域顶部与高位体系域底部的密集段中。     

青藏高原气溶胶单颗粒类型及粒度分布

应用场发射扫描电镜(FESEM)对青藏高原纳木错综合观测站和香格里拉本底站2011年7～8月份不同天气情况下收集的气溶胶样品进行研究。结果表明,区域内气溶胶单颗粒类型主要包括烟尘集合体、球形颗粒(焦油球、燃煤飞灰)、似球形颗粒、矿物颗粒、生物颗粒等,香格里拉的球形颗粒中出现了飞灰颗粒,而纳木错样品中没有。纳木错气溶胶颗粒的数量-粒度峰值和体积-粒度峰值分别出现在0.2～0.3 μm和1～2.5 μm,矿物颗粒数量和体积最多,分别占44.4%和61.7%。香格里拉气溶胶颗粒的数量-粒度峰值和体积-粒度峰值都呈现双峰分布,主峰均分布在>2.5 μm范围,矿物颗粒数量和体积最多,分别占51.7%和58.7%。细粒子和粗粒子分别为纳木错和香格里拉气溶胶的主要类型。纳木错气溶胶中矿物颗粒最多,数量百分比为44.4%,其次为烟尘集合体(29.5%)和球形颗粒(26.1%),香格里拉气溶胶中矿物颗粒数量百分比为51.7%,其次为球形颗粒(29%)和烟尘集合体(19.3%);纳木错气溶胶总颗粒物主要分布在0.2～0.3 μm粒径范围中,数量百分比为32.59%,其中矿物颗粒最多(15%),其次为球形颗粒(11.5%)和烟尘集合体(6.1%)。香格里拉气溶胶颗粒物主要分布在>2.5 μm粒径范围中,数量百分比为37.5%,其中矿物颗粒最多(17.9%),其次为球形颗粒(10%)和烟尘集合体(9.6%)。     

柴北缘超高压变质带都兰地区的构造演化历史——来自片麻岩独居石原位电子探针定年的证据

榴辉岩及其围岩的变质作用和年代学研究是揭示超高压变质地体形成机制及演化过程的关键,但是作为榴辉岩围岩的副片麻岩,由于其矿物组合相对简单,缺少指示温压条件的特征矿物,不容易将其岩石学特征与变质年龄相联系。本文对柴北缘超高压变质带都兰地区3个含石榴石副片麻岩样品进行了岩石学及独居石电子探针原位U-Th-Pb化学法定年研究,获得3个样品中独居石的表面年龄分别为433±15.4 Ma(8S01,沙柳河剖面)、440±11.2 Ma(8S55,都兰北带野马滩)和435±14.7 Ma(8S116,都兰南带)。其中沙柳河及都兰南带的两个样品年龄相似,与北带样品约有5 Ma的年龄差。3个测试样品中的独居石均表现为富集轻稀土元素,重稀土元素严重亏损,具有Eu的正异常,其中Eu/Eu^*与寄主岩石石榴石中Ca含量存在耦合关系。岩石学研究及温压条件计算表明独居石为角闪岩相退变过程中变质重结晶生长而成。都兰南带独居石样品测试点年龄介于440～430 Ma时具有较高的Y含量,且Y与Eu/Eu^*之间存在明显的负相关性,表明440～430 Ma之间都兰地区部分副片麻岩经历了角闪岩相退变质作用。