About the specification of erosion flux for soft stratified cohesive sediments

The present paper deals with the specification of bed erosion flux that accounts for the effects of sediment-induced stratification in the water column. Owing to difficulties in measuring the bed shear stress _b and the erosive shear strength _s, we suggest a series of methods that combine laboratory and numerical experiments. A simplified turbulent transport model that includes these effects helps to quantify _b and _s. Focusing on soft stratified beds, the present study considers erosion rate formulas of the form =_f exp {[T_b-T_s]} where is a model constant (=1 for Gularte's (1978) formula and =1/2 for Parchure's (1984) formula). First, the bed erosive strength profile _s(Z) is adjusted by forcing the turbulent transport model with measured erosion rates. Second, three procedures are suggested to determine the erosion rate formula coefficients _f and : a global procedure and two different layer-by-layer procedures. Each procedure is applied to an erosion experiment conducted in a rotating annular flume by Villaret and Paulic (1986). The use of the layer-by-layer procedure based on a least squares fitting technique provides a closer fit than the global procedure. The present study points out the complementarity of experimental and numerical approaches and also suggests possible improvements in laboratory test procedures.     

渗流应力耦合分析在溪洛渡电站坝址区的应用

把裂隙岩体概化为等效连续介质,建立了统一的渗流－弹塑性应力全耦合控制议程。坝区耦合分析表明耦合和不耦合分析所得的坝区渗流场有一定差别,耦合分析的厂房地下洞室顶部的水压力值增大,且洞室壁面的出渗量也增大。考虑耦合作用的地下洞室群区域的渗探优化布置仍需进一步的研究。     

Geomechanical Properties of Shear Zones in the Eastern Aar Massif,Switzerland and their Implication on Tunnelling

Summary ¶Rock zones containing a high fracture density and/or soft, low cohesion materials can be highly problematic when encountered during tunnel excavation. For example in the eastern Aar massif of central Switzerland, experiences during the construction of the Gotthard highway tunnel showed that heavily fractured areas within shear zones were responsible for overbreaks in the form of chimneys several metres in height. To understand and estimate the impact of the shear zones on rock mass behaviour, knowledge concerning the rock mass strength and deformation characteristics is fundamental. A series of laboratory triaxial tests, performed on samples from granite- and gneiss-hosted shear zones revealed that with increasing degree of tectonic overprint, sample strength decreases and rock behaviour shows a transition from brittle to ductile deformation. These trends may be explained by increasing fracture densities, increasing foliation intensity, increasing thickness of fine-grained, low cohesion fracture infill, and increasing mica content associated with the increasing degree of tectonic overprint. As fracture density increases and the influence of discrete, persistent discontinuities on rock mass strength decreases, behaviour of the test samples becomes more and more representative of rock mass behaviour, i.e. that of a densely fractured continuum. For the purpose of numerical modeling calculations, the shear zones may be subdivided with respect to an increasing fracture density, foliation intensity and mica content into a strongly foliated zone, a fractured zone and a cohesionless zone, which in turn exhibit brittle, brittle-ductile and ductile rock mass constitutive behaviour, respectively.Received December 17, 2001; accepted January 9, 2003 Published online April 29, 2003     

三峡库区土门子滑坡成因机制分析与稳定性评价

土门子滑坡位于重庆市江津区,自1992年以来滑坡体蠕动变形持续发展,近期变形进一步加剧造成滑体内公路及房屋破坏。在研究滑坡地质环境和变形特征的基础上,对滑坡的成因机制进行了进一步深入研究,并对滑坡体的稳定性进行分析评价。结论表明,滑坡体处于整体蠕动变形局部滑移,持续强降雨是诱发其失稳破坏的主导因素在暴雨工况下,滑坡体处于欠稳定～基本稳定极限状态,可能沿多个剪出口发生失稳破坏。     

Laboratory experiments of sediment transport from bare soil with a rill

Abstract

Mathematical models developed for quantification of sediment transport in hydrological watersheds require data collected through field or laboratory experiments, but these are still very rare in the literature. This study aims to collect such data at the laboratory scale. To this end, a rainfall simulator equipped with nozzles to spray rainfall was constructed, together with an erosion flume that can be given longitudinal and lateral slopes. Eighty experiments were performed, considering microtopographical features by pre-forming a rill on the soil surface before the start of each experiment. Medium and fine sands were used as soil, and four rainfall intensities (45, 65, 85 and 105 mm h^-1) were applied in the experiments. Rainfall characteristics such as uniformity, granulometry, drop velocity and kinetic energy were evaluated; flow and sediment discharge data were collected and analysed. The analysis shows that the sediment transport rate is directly proportional to rainfall intensity and slope. In contrast, the volumetric sediment concentration stays constant and does not change with rainfall intensity unless the slope changes. These conclusions are restricted to the conditions of experiments performed under rainfall intensities between and 105 mm h^-1 for medium and fine sands in a 136-cm-wide, 650-cm-long and 17-cm-deep erosion flume with longitudinal and lateral slopes varying between 5 and 20%.

Editor Z.W. Kundzewicz; Associate editor G. Mahé

Citation Aksoy, H., Unal, N.E., Cokgor, S., Gedikli, A., Yoon, J., Koca, K., Inci, S.B., Eris, E., and Pak, G., 2013. Laboratory experiments of sediment transport from bare soil with a rill. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 58 (7), 1505–1518.     

ABSENCE OF PREFERENTIAL FLOW IN THE PERCOLATING WATERS OF A CONIFEROUS FOREST SOIL

Evidence for the functioning of macropores and the presence of preferential flow in forest soils is equivocal. This is partly because many workers use only one diagnostic technique to indicate whether or not macropore flow occurs. In this paper three lines of evidence are used to suggest that preferential flow does not occur in the percolating waters of a coniferous forest soil under the range of hydrological conditions that prevail in the field. To simulate field conditions, realistic rainfall intensities were used in conservative solute transport experiments on four undisturbed soil columns. A method is described in which breakthrough data can be used to calculate the percentage of antecedent water displaced from a soil column during frontal-type breakthrough experiments. Calculations based on this method using the experimental data show that as little as five percent of the antecedent water was immobile. The simple form of the functional advection–dispersion equation, based on a single value for linear velocity and the dispersion coefficient was fitted to two of the breakthrough curves with reasonable accuracy, further suggesting that preferential flow did not occur in the experiments. Finally, soil moisture characteristic curves were determined for replicate soil samples from the forest soil. The operational water contents of the columns during the breakthrough experiments were compared with the soil moisture characteristics and it was found that pores exerting pressure heads greater than −0·5 kPa did not appear to contribute to flow through the columns, again suggesting an absence of preferential flow. © 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

虚拟合作实验室-利用Internet开展大气科学国际合作研究的可行之路

试图提出一个由中美双方大气科学家参与的虚拟合作实验室的解决方案,实验室包括虚拟资料／信息系统、虚拟模拟系统、虚拟应用分析系统、虚拟培训学校、虚拟图书馆、虚拟可视化实验室和虚拟出版系统等。     

淮南深地地磁总场连续观测与时变特征

深地实验室具有电磁干扰小的"超净"地磁观测优势,已成为地磁观测的新平台和研究热点.为了评估淮南深地实验室地磁环境、认识地磁总场时变特征及地下与地面耦合性,我们于2022年在地下巷道（-848 m）和地表（+22 m）同步实施了地磁总场长期连续观测,对观测数据进行了功率谱、小波谱、地磁总场变化特征的分析及与附近的蒙城地磁台比对.研究结果表明：（1）地下无（或弱）磁干扰点位的地磁环境较优越,与蒙城地磁台相媲美,适用于地磁场变化的高精度、长期连续观测;（2）地下地磁观测可有效过滤地表上由工业与人类活动等的电磁干扰,其记录的地磁总场变化与蒙城地磁台具有较好的耦合性;（3）地下磁测可清晰记录地磁总场的平静变化、不同周期磁暴、地磁脉冲等丰富的时变信息,可为地球系统科学研究提供地磁学依据.     

LIMS在我国地矿行业实验室的应用现状

实验室信息管理系统(LIMS)为实验室提供了便捷、准确、及时、规范的技术服务,已经被越来越多的实验室认可与应用。我国的LIMS研究和开发工作,相对于国外发达国家还处于落后水平。目前LIMS在我国地矿行业实验室还没有得到全面推广和应用,一些实验室仍然采用人工管理模式开展实验室相关任务的管理工作。本文通过较为广泛的调研,结果表明,地矿行业相关实验室对LIMS的建设主动性较高,大部分实验室希望通过自行研制或引进先进成果建设数字管理模式,实现信息化管理水平。