Low-cycle fatigue crack initiation life of hull-notched plate considering short crack effect and accumulative plastic damage

When studying the low-cycle fatigue crack initiation life of notched plates, the effects of fatigue short crack and accumulative plastic damage in the vicinity of the notch should be considered. The low-cycle fatigue crack initiation life of notched plates has been revised in the analysis process by considering the short crack initiation and expansion of notch stress concentration area. By determining the accumulative plastic deformation in the vicinity of a notch under low-cycle fatigue loads, a predictive model of low-cycle fatigue crack initiation life was presented for notched plates, and the relative influence factors were quantitatively analyzed. A comparison study verified that the results obtained from the presented calculation model correlate quite well with those from the existing experiments. Some important conclusions were drawn from the study on considering the effects of short crack and accumulative plastic damage. The presented method may be used for predicting the low-cycle fatigue crack initiation life of ship plate.     

不同品系节旋藻cpcB基因上游序列的克隆与分析

采用体外克隆技术获得来自节旋藻6个品系的cpcB基因的257 bp的上游序列和217 bp的编码区序列,并和来自FACHB341的cpcB基因序列对应部分进行比较分析。结果表明,所获得的上游序列和编码区序列都有高度的保守性,而编码区所推导的氨基酸序列的保守性更高。启动子软件预测,在每一上游序列中都存在5条启动子序列,其中,FACHB439的启动子种类和结构与其他品系存在一定的差异。同时,FACHB439的翻译起始区mRNA二级结构与其他品系也有所不同。因此推测,在大多数品系节旋藻中藻蓝蛋白基因存在相同的表达调控机制,而品系FACHB439则可能存在一定程度的差异。     

Geomorphic effects of a 10-year storm on a small drainage Basin in the Texas Panhandle

Bedded Permian salt in the Palo Duro Basin of the Texas Panhandle is being considered for isolation of nuclear waste. Studies underway to evaluate the geomorphic processes affecting any waste repository that may be sited in the region include studies of the geomorphic events associated with individual storms. On 26 May, 1978, thunderstorms occurred near Canyon, Texas, which received 130mm of rain, and on a small instrumented watershed at Buffalo Lake, 16 km to the southwest, which received 71 mm of rain. Rainfall at Buffalo Lake was concentrated in a period of 3 hours, representing a return period of approximately 10 years and a maximum 30-minute intensity of 64 mm/hour. Erosion-pin fields, topographic surveys, and stakes for headcut monitoring had been established 2 to 3 months before the storm in a 640-m long tributary canyon to Tierra Blanca Creek downstream of Buffalo Lake. Canyon slopes of moderately to slightly calichified sands and gravels of the Ogallala Formation are capped by well-indurated caliche on the canyon rim. Erosion-pin fields showed average net erosion of 2·4 cm (0° to 9° slope) to 2·7 cm (10° to 19° slope) and a single-pin maximum value of 6·2 cm in the 20° to 29° slope class. Headcuts 1 to 2 m deep in alluvial-colluvial material on the floor of the canyon migrated as much as 12 m upstream. Canyon floor deposition occurred as a series of elongate bars, 16m long and longer, located at the mouth of tributary gullies, downstream from scours, and at slope breaks. Grain sizes ranged from boulders up to 70cm in intermediate axis deposited in the upper canyon to fine to very fine sand deposited as a sheet up to 25cm thick beyond the mouth of the canyon at Tierra Blanca Creek. In an adjacent canyon a sequence of irregular beds of caliche gravel, mixed sand and gravel, and fine sand up to 3 m thick is exposed. Comparison of this sequence with deposits resulting from the 26 May, 1978, storm suggests that the coarse fraction of the alluvial sequence is deposited by repetitive major storm events. Cobble and boulder units 30 to 70cm thick can evidently be deposited in a few hours. Under the continental climate of the Texas Panhandle, erosion, deposition, and stream incision are taking place primarily in discrete steps related to episodes of intense rainfall.     

Electric charge separation in severe storms

This paper proposes a new model for thunderstorm electric field generation which directly utilizes the dynamic turbulent motion to separate the charges. Postulating a microphysical charge separation mechanism, such as is commonly accepted in most other theories, and which places a negative charge on the larger particles with a positive charge on the smaller ones, it is described how evaporation and cooling at the tops of small cumuli will release the positive charges as ions. These ions migrate to the surrounding cloud as the cooled parcel, with negatively charged particles in it, sinks down through the cloud. Since the sinking parcel contains mostly ice, it will be more buoyant than its surroundings when it reaches rising regions of water cloud, and hence should come to rest near the –10°C level. Thus the cloud will acquire an accumulation of negative charge at about this level before substantial hydrometeors begin falling out of it.     

华北东部深部岩溶及煤矿岩溶水害特征

超前区域注浆是煤层底板灰岩水害防治的有效手段,而注浆工程中的劈裂注浆过程是决定注浆效果的关键环节,但由于对受注灰岩地层裂隙起裂机制认识不清,致使劈裂注浆过程中注浆压力、浆液水灰比等参数缺少有效控制,难以保证注浆效果。针对上述问题,利用颗粒元(Particle Flow Code,PFC)数值模拟软件,考虑浆液水灰比、地应力水平、弱面和裂隙的倾角和宽度等因素,开展奥陶系灰岩顶部劈裂注浆数值模拟计算。结果表明：在弱面和裂隙条件下起裂压力均随浆液水灰比(1∶1、2∶1、3∶1)的增大而减小,随最大主应力与最小主应力差值(9、12、15 MPa)的减小而增大,随弱面或裂隙宽度(3、8、15 mm)及其与最大主应力夹角(30°、60°、90°)的增大而减小;起裂裂隙沿平行于最大主应力方向延展;起裂压力值随弱面与基质强度比(0.30、0.03)的减小而减小,当弱面强度较高时,起裂压力大于裂隙条件下的起裂压力,而且沿着基质起裂;当注浆孔置于弱面两端或裂隙中间时,起裂裂隙沿弱面或裂隙的两端起裂,当注浆孔置于弱面中间位置时,起裂裂隙沿中间位置的基质起裂。研究结果有助于底板水害超前区域改造劈裂注浆的有效控制,指导注浆参数的选取,为解放深部煤炭资源提供技术支撑。

     

南京雷与雨相互关系分析

根据南京气象观测站1951—2007年57 a雷暴日及降雨记录资料,分析了干雷、湿雷和雨中有雷比率的变化特征,得出:57 a来湿雷明显多于干雷,干、湿雷日气候倾向率都为负值,趋势减少,但湿雷减少更为明显;干、湿雷都是夏季最多,冬季最少;南京市从历年某天发生湿雷的概率得:历史上任意一天湿雷发生概率超过0.2的日期都集中在7、8月,其中南京发生湿雷最高概率在7月20日,与本省苏南和苏中各市基本一致,比苏北发生湿雷概率最高日期早5~6 d。南京雨中有雷比率主要分布在0.12~0.25之间,平均为0.19;雨中有雷的比率呈逐年缓慢下降趋势,但近几年出现雷暴的比率略有增多;各月雨中有雷比率呈单峰型,夏季比率较其他季节大。结合1961—2007年梅雨期资料,统计得出历年梅雨期有雷比率分布区间广,为0~0.9,梅雨期有雷平均比率为0.26,虽比全年雨中有雷的平均比率(0.19)还高些,但比梅雨所在的6—7月雨中有雷平均比率(0.39)低得多。分析还发现雷与不同级别降水关系有差异,与小雨呈负相关,而与中雨、大雨和暴雨呈正相关,与暴雨的相关性最好,6—8月大雨和暴雨中有雷的比率高达0.62~0.74。     

Automated suitable drainage network extraction from digital elevation models in Taiwan's upstream watersheds

Automatically extracting drainage networks from digital elevation models coupled with the constant stream threshold value is a regular method. These extracted networks can be verified by comparing the channel initiation points with those from real networks. From the results analysed, the differences in channel initiation points will affect the network geometries, geomorphological indices and hydrological responses. This paper develops two automatic algorithms, the headwater‐tracing method and the fitness index, to trace the flow paths from headwaters to the outlet and to calculate the reasonable stream threshold. Instead of the method determined by trial and error or field survey, the accurate channel initiation points can be obtained from airborne photographs coupled with high‐resolution SPOT images for suitable drainage network extraction. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Comparing terrain and vegetation-based visibility for explaining sable flight behaviour in a Southern African savanna

In this study, we tested whether terrain-based visibility modelled from a remotely sensed ASTER Digital Elevation Model (DEM) explains sable flight initiation distance (FID) better than vegetation-based visibility measured in the field. We also tested whether the effect of hunting on sable FID varies with spatial scale. We first performed a linear regression analysis relating FID to standardized coefficients of both vegetation- and terrain-based visibility where the variable with the larger coefficient was the better predictor of FID. We latter performed an analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) comparing the slopes relating FID to both measures of visibility, first at the large scale and later at the small scale within the hunting area. Our results suggest that remotely sensed terrain-based visibility predicts the FID of sable better than vegetation-based visibility. We also found that the effect of hunting on sable FID varies with spatial scale.     

原特提斯洋俯冲起始——来自北祁连早寒武世弧前岩浆作用的新证据

形成于弧前背景的岩浆岩可能记录了俯冲起始的重要证据。本文以北祁连走廊南山蛇绿混杂岩带新识别出的富铌辉长岩和斜长花岗岩为研究对象,在野外观察的基础上,结合岩石学、地球化学、同位素地球化学和年代学的综合研究,对原特提斯洋初始俯冲的时间进行约束,并探讨其形成过程及构造意义。锆石U-Pb定年结果显示富铌辉长岩样品锆石加权平均²⁰⁶Pb/²³⁸U年龄为512±4 Ma;两个斜长花岗岩样品的锆石加权平均²⁰⁶Pb/²³⁸U年龄分别为522±3 Ma和519±1 Ma。全岩地球化学结果显示富铌辉长岩的Nb含量为7.49×10^-6～10.80×10^-6,TiO₂含量为1.50%～2.08%,Nb/U值为11.9～13.4,(Nb/La)_N>0.5,明显高于岛弧玄武岩,其εNd(t)值介于+4.38～+5.78之间。斜长花岗岩样品K₂O含量(0.31%～1.66%)和K₂O/Na<...     

中高层大气瞬态发光事件（TLEs）及可能的影响

中高层大气瞬态发光事件（TLEs）是发生于活跃雷暴上空平流层和中间层的一类快速大气放电现象。根据光辐射的形态特征和发生位置的不同,可将已发现的TLEs归纳为4类：由电离层快速向下发展的Red Sprites(又称红色精灵,红闪);由雷暴云顶部向上发展的Blue Jets（又称蓝色喷流,蓝激流）;由闪电激发的低电离层区域的圆环状放电ELVEs(Emissions of Light and VLF perturbation due to EMP Sources,又称光辐射和EMP源引起的甚低频扰动) 和由云顶向电离层快速向上发展的Gigantic Jets(又称巨大喷流)。对已有的TLEs现象学和形态特征的观测事实以及物理机制和理论研究等进行了回顾,讨论了TLEs对平流层和中间层大气以及电离层的可能影响,并提出了目前在TLEs理论方面尚未解决的问题,指出了进一步观测和理论研究的必要性。