Validation of small strain properties from recorded weak seismic motions

During the last decade, there has been an increased interest in the computations of surface ground motions from known rock outcrop motions. The main advantage of the procedure is to allow for the actual variation of strength and stiffness properties of heterogeneous soil profiles, eventually accounting for non-linear soil behavior. The main questions raised against the adequacy of such a procedure lie upon the reliability of the computational scheme and in the representativity of the soil constitutive relationship. The present paper addresses both aspects by comparing the motions computed assuming standard assumptions in the state of practice of earthquake engineering. Since until now, the downhole array recorded only weak motions (horizontal peak ground accelerations smaller than 0·04 g), the paper focuses on elastic soil properties. It is demonstrated that a carefully conducted geotechnical survey yields an accurate shear wave velocity profile and that rate-independent soil damping might not be appropriate to represent the soil behavior in the small strain range.     

Magnetotelluric survey across Singhbhum granite batholith

Magnetotelluric soundings have been carried out across the archaean terrain of Singhbhum granite batholith from Bangriposhi to Keonjhar for a distance of about 100 km. One-dimensional inversion models reveal that the depth of the moho varied between 23 and 40 km. The depth of the lithosphere asthenosphere boundary varied from 58 to 76 km. A zone of higher electrical conductivity detected at the base of the lower crust just above the moho is present along the entire profile. Signals within the range of 0.25 to 600 seconds, which crossed the coherency threshold of 0.8 to 0.9, could be stacked. Resistivity ranges of the crust mantle silicates below Singhbhum granite batholith vary over a wide range. Resistivity ranges are (i) 30,000–80,000 ohm for Singhbhum granite phase II, (ii) 2,000 to 9,000 ohm-m for Singhbhum granite phase III, (iii) 250 to 2,200 ohm-m for lower crust (iv) 3,000 to 47,000 ohm for the upper mantle and (v) 200 to 2300 ohm-m for the asthenosphere. Sharp break in electrical resistivity at the (i) upper crust-lower crust (ii) lower crust upper mantle and (iii) lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary is obtained along the entire profile. Signals could see up to 100 km below the granite batholith. Singhbhum granite phase II and III could be demarcated on the basis of resistivity. Low resistive zones in the lower crust and upper mantle might have formed due to (i) water (ii) combined effect of water and carbon and (iii) high temperature and partial melt.     

深层地震勘探方法的初步研究

本项研究涉及深层地震工作中的资料采集、处理和解释诸方面。本文叙述利用环炮试验方法研究深反射层反射能力,与反射系数平面分布一起,会改善资料采集的传统设计方法。还对常用的检波器线性组合公式进行了修正,并由此得出一种在实际中重要的组合方式的特性公式。震源检波器联合组合是组合理论研究的重要课题,通常利用频率、方向特性研究组合效果;本文在平面波条件下建立了源检联合组合的特性公式,从最大接收路径差与地层倾角、组合内距以及接收距的关系出发,讨论了由于源检组合而形成的非同相性迭加问题,并且详细说明了不同因数的变化引起变化的规律,定量地表明了源检联合组合的迭加效应。     

Large-Eddy Simulations on the Effects of Surface Geometry of Building Arrays on Turbulent Organized Structures

Turbulent organized structures (TOS) above building arrays were investigated using a large-eddy simulation (LES) model for a city (LES-CITY). Square and staggered building arrays produced contrasting behaviour in terms of turbulence that roughly corresponded to the conventional classification of ‘D-type’ and ‘K-type’ roughness, respectively: (1) The drag coefficients (referred to the building height) for staggered arrays were sensitive to building area density, but those for square arrays were not. (2) The relative contributions of ejections to sweeps (S₂/S₄) at the building height for square arrays were sensitive to building area density and nearly equalled or exceeded 1.0 (ejection dominant), but those for staggered arrays were insensitive to building area density and were mostly below 1.0 (sweep dominant). (3) Streaky patterns of longitudinal low speed regions (i.e., low speed streaks) existed in all flows regardless of array type. Height variations of the buildings in the square array drastically increased the drag coefficient and modified the turbulent flow structures. The mechanism of D-type and K-type urban-like roughness flows and the difference from vegetation flows are discussed. Although urban-like roughness flows exhibited mixed properties of mixing layers and flat-wall boundary layers as far as S₂/S₄ was concerned, the turbulent organized structures of urban-like roughness flows resembled those of flat-wall boundary layers.     

Global multiresolution models of surface wave propagation: comparing equivalently regularized Born and ray theoretical solutions

I invert a large set of teleseismic phase-anomaly observations, to derive tomographic maps of fundamental-mode surface wave phase velocity, first via ray theory, then accounting for finite-frequency effects through scattering theory, in the far-field approximation and neglecting mode coupling. I make use of a multiple-resolution pixel parametrization which, in the assumption of sufficient data coverage, should be adequate to represent strongly oscillatory Fréchet kernels. The parametrization is finer over North America, a region particularly well covered by the data. For each surface-wave mode where phase-anomaly observations are available, I derive a wide spectrum of plausible, differently damped solutions; I then conduct a trade-off analysis, and select as optimal solution model the one associated with the point of maximum curvature on the trade-off curve. I repeat this exercise in both theoretical frameworks, to find that selected scattering and ray theoretical phase-velocity maps are coincident in pattern, and differ only slightly in amplitude.     

电法探查海岸带含水层咸淡水界面的调查研究

本文在理论上对电法探查多层土层组成的海岸带含水层的咸淡水界面的可能性进行探讨的基础上,对太平洋沿岸某地区进行了实地调查研究。在测量设置在海岸附近及分布于海岸纵深方向的调查井垂直方向电导率的同时,在调查井附近进行了电法探查。结果表明,电法探查的咸淡水界面的深度与依据井水电导率区分的混合区域上端几乎一致,即对于不同类别土质构成的岩土层,电法不但能探查确定咸淡水界面的深度,而且与以往的手法比较也是一种简单、快速、可靠、成本低廉的确定咸淡水界面深度的方法。     

用地震层析成像方法研究北京西北地区的活动断裂 2003年大姚6.2和6.1级地震前三维波速结构的演化

用首都圈地震台网和中 德合作延庆数字地震台阵2001年10月——2005年12月获得良好记录的197次地震到时，运用地震震源位置和三维地壳速度结构联合反演程序对这些地震实行精确定位. 震源位置分布表明，北京西北地区存在两条主要的地震活动断裂带. 一条从清河、温泉一带向北西方向伸展， 到怀来县以北的黄土窑一带； 另一条是自南口、昌平一带向北东东向伸展的活动断裂带.      

On the characteristics of ground motion rotational components using Chiba dense array data

An effort is made to examine the properties of rotational (torsional and rocking) ground motions using Chiba dense array data. The Chiba array system, located 30 km east of Tokyo, Japan, is composed of 15 boreholes with separation distances varying from 5 to 320 m. This provides a unique opportunity to examine the characteristics of rotational components. For this purpose, 17 events are considered and rotational ground motions are evaluated using spatial derivatives of translational ones. The effects of seismological parameters and separation distances between stations on properties of rotational motions are examined, showing a sudden increase in rotational motions for the earthquakes with large magnitude or PGA and decrease of these motions with increasing separation distance. While the duration of torsional motion is found to be larger than translational ones, there is no significant difference between durations of rocking and vertical motions. The effects of separation distance and earthquake magnitude on rotational response spectra are also investigated. The normalized rotational response spectra are found to be strongly affected by separation distance. The spectral ratios of rotational and translational motions are not linearly proportional to period as suggested by the previous studies. Finally, the torsional motion is predicted from translation ones for different separation distances at the site. The comparison of the predicted and the calculated torsional motions reveals a weak estimation in close separation distances (<30m) and satisfactory predictions in other cases. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

GPS抗干扰功率倒置阵算法仿真研究

首先介绍了GPS信号的特点和功率倒置阵的特点，说明在GPS抗干扰中功率倒置阵的实用性。在此基础上采用LMS算法计算功率倒置阵的权值并画出最优加权下的阵的方向图，表明在存在干扰情况下，功率倒置阵能自动在干扰方向形成方向图零陷，从而达到抑制干扰的目的。