利用滑动速率、古地震资料估算走滑断裂的粘滑及蠕滑量的方法

断层走滑包括粘滑和蠕滑,前者是伴有强震发生的快速运动,后者则是一种缓慢的无震稳滑运动。这２ 种运动常随时间交替出现,共同构成了断层的基本运动方式。在利用断层滑动速率讨论大震重复率的问题中,人们最关心的问题则是如何从总滑动量中分辨和划分出其中所包含的粘滑和蠕滑量,特别是对蠕滑量的划分,因为它直接影响着大震重复率的正确性。笔者在野外考察的基础上,对昌马活动断裂的位移量进行了分级,确定出昌马断裂带全新世以来的水平滑动量大致可划分为５个级别：３１～４１ ｍ ;２５～３１ ｍ ; １５～２２ ｍ ; ８～１３ ｍ ;１～５．５ ｍ ,同时依据古地震学方法并结合１４Ｃ断代法及断层崖形成年代的数学模拟计算,求得全新世以来在昌马断裂带上共发生５ 次古地震事件。在上述２ 项资料确定的基础上,进一步对昌马断裂带的粘滑及蠕滑量进行了划分,并给出了它们随时间的变化情况     

邢台地震前地壳形变异常的可能性物理机制

将地壳介质视为麦克斯威尔体 ,运用差分法和三维有限元方法 ,探讨了邢台分层地壳结构模型 （含高速体和低速体及深大断裂 ）中深部断裂加速蠕滑时 ,平均应力、水平最大剪应力和地表面垂直位移随时间演化的特征 ,计算结果表明 :（1 ）在地壳中上部 1 1km处 ,深部断裂的加速蠕滑急剧加速了水平最大剪应力的增加速率 ,可达数百倍 ,深部断裂的加速蠕滑是邢台强地震成核过程的开始 ,可实现地壳下部的能量向地壳中上部快速转移 ;（2 ）深部断裂的加速蠕滑引起的地面垂直位移变化与邢台地震震前的地表面垂直位移变化非常一致 .说明邢台地震震前地壳表面垂直方向的位移不仅与岩石的膨胀有关 ,而且可能与地壳内深部断裂的加速蠕滑密切相关 .     

中等地震活动增强作为强震标志的研究

通过对(1990~1996年)发生在我国大陆及边境地区24次6级以上地震的分析研究表明,80%的强震主震前在震源区及附近有中等地震活动增强的过程。异常表现出共同的基本特征,即长期平静→增强活动→震前平静→发震。震前平静至发震大约经历几个月到2年时间(平均10个月左右),可以作为中短期地震预报判据。用岩石蠕变声发射实验来解释这一现象,可把中等地震活动增强看作是稳态蠕变阶段后期发生的广义前震。     

单向压缩状态下上海地区软土的蠕变变形与次固结特性研究

基于上海地区原状软土的一维固结试验,讨论了在不同加荷比、加荷速率及超载预压情况下软土的蠕变变形特性和次固结特性。试验结果表明:蠕变变形随应力水平、加荷速率的增大而增大。相同应力水平下,加荷比较大的土样蠕变变形较小。蠕变变形为非线性,随着应力水平的增加,蠕变变形从粘弹性到粘塑性转变,加荷比较大时,这种转变更明显。对试验结果进行曲线拟和,确定Metchell一维经验模型参数,拟和曲线与试验结果吻合较好。通过对次固结阶段试验数据的线性拟合可知,对于正常固结土,次固结系数Ca值受应力水平和加荷比的影响不大,而与加荷速率密切相关,加荷速率较大时,Ca值随荷载的增大急剧增大后略有降低。超载预压可有效减小次固结系数,从而有利于减小工后次固结沉降。     

二十年来蠕变和短基线观测反映的鲜水河断裂带活动特征

利用鲜水河断裂带1990年1月-2009年12月的蠕变与短基线数据,采用小波变换与断层运动学分析方法,获取构造活动产生的断层形变速率.结合近场断层形变测量与GPS资料,分析了该断裂带的分段活动特征及时空演化.结果显示:(1)不同段落断层活动方式存在差异性.鲜水河断裂带分段活动现象显著,以道孚县为界,以北的炉霍、道孚断层走滑量相对较大且活动方式稳定,显示张性和左行走滑;以南的乾宁、折多塘断层活动微弱,走滑量小,且滑动状态复杂,其中,乾宁断层为压性和左行走滑,折多塘断层为微弱的右行走滑.这种分段活动特征可能与断层几何及巴颜喀拉块体内部次级块体的差异运动有关.(2)不同时期断层走滑方式存在交替性.鲜水河断裂带虽以左行走滑为主,但在汶川地震前一些断层段出现过逆向走滑现象.汶川地震前2年,炉霍、道孚断层左行走滑减弱,乾宁、折多塘断层在2007年出现过逆向走滑,至2009年底,逆向走滑区域保持扩展态势.(3)不同测点间距得到的断层错动速率和变形带空间分布特征不同.不同测量方法的分析结果表明,鲜水河断裂带不同段落和跨距宽度的走滑速率有所不同:测点间距18.7~65.1 m的蠕滑速率为0.01~0.78 mm/a;测点间距72~288 m的短基线测量为0.02~2.46 mm/a,点距十几至几十公里的GPS观测为6~11 mm/a;地质滑动速率5~15 mm/a.随测点间距的增加,平行断层的位移速率按对数函数增长,视剪应变率按幂函数衰减.我们推测,大间距测点的数据中既包含了跨断层的错动,也包含了断层两侧块体的分布变形;现今的断层形变测量与地质调查之间的差异,说明断层错动速率在时间上不是常数.     

岩体结构面蠕变损伤机理研究

通过对伯格斯模型和西原模型的分析比较,选取西原模型研究岩体结构面的蠕变损伤特性。在0s情况下,由西原模型推出剪切模量的表达式,以剪切模量为变量定义损伤变量,得到结构面的损伤变量表达式。并以泥岩剪切试验为例,计算了相同正压力作用下的结构面剪切模量和损伤量。结果表明:当0s时,剪切模量、损伤量均随时间趋于稳定,且结构面蠕变的前两个阶段损伤量较小,而当0s时,一段时间后,其损伤量开始突变;剪应力越大,其初始剪切模量越大,随时间降低越快,达到稳定蠕变阶段时降低量也相应越大;剪应力越大,结构面损伤量随时间增长越快,在达到稳定蠕变阶段时,损伤量也越大。     

坝料流变对高面板堆石坝的应力变形影响研究

在高应力状态下坝料的流变较为明显。为研究坝料流变对混凝土面板坝应力变形的影响,采用长科院九参数幂级数流变模型及其试验参数,对某高混凝土面板堆石坝进行应力、变形分析。结果表明,坝料流变使坝体变形明显增加,坝体应力有所减小。考虑坝料的流变特性后的面板法向位移(挠度)明显增加,面板坝轴向和顺坡向应力极值增加。对于分期浇筑面板和分期蓄水的高混凝土面板堆石坝,选用合适的流变本构模型正确地模拟堆石体的流变特性,可以为大坝填筑进度及面板分期浇筑时间的确定提供参考,并有助于正确地预测大坝的应力变形。     

Review of constitutive models for describing the time dependent behaviour of soft clays

Different classes of constitutive models have been proposed to capture the time-dependent behaviour of soft soil (creep, stress relaxation, rate dependency). This paper critically reviews many of the models developed based on understanding of the time dependent stress-strain-stress rate-strain rate behaviour of soils and viscoplasticity in terms of their strengths and weaknesses. Some discussion is also made on the numerical implementation aspects of these models. Typical findings from numerical analyses of geotechnical structures constructed on soft soils are also discussed. The general elastic viscoplastic (EVP) models can roughly be divided into two categories: models based on the concept of overstress and models based on non-stationary flow surface theory. Although general in structure, both categories have their own strengths and shortcomings. This review indicates that EVP analysis is yet to be vastly used by the geotechnical engineers, apparently due to the mathematical complication involved in the formulation of the constitutive models, unconvincing benefit in terms of the accuracy of performance prediction, requirement of additional soil parameter(s), difficulties in determining them, and the necessity of excessive computing resources and time.     

Diversification of landslide areas as a means for reducing noise in dendrogeomorphic dating

The result of tree-ring-based reconstruction of past landslide events is often the development of a single total chronology. This approach can be very effective for small homogeneous landslides. However, compiling chronological data from heterogeneous (often independent) zones of large complex landslide areas into one chronology can induce over- or underestimation of some events, resulting in lowered reliability of the reconstruction. The solution for elimination of this effect can lie in the diversification of complex landslide areas into homogeneous zones with separate analyses. The aim of this study was to quantify the effect of this separation on detected slope movement events and to define parameters whose investigation could distinguish events (sliding) from noise (creeping).For this purpose, 412 tree-ring series from 206 disturbed common spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) occupying complex landslide areas were dendrogeomorphically analysed. The landslide area was divided into five homogeneous zones using geomorphic mapping, LiDAR-based DEM and geophysical sounding (ERT). Five events (verified in individual zones) were detected in the total chronology. Two extra events in the total chronology (28.6%) were considered noise. Moreover, two zonal events were detected but not recorded in the total chronology. This indicates that the noise in the total chronology of the complex landslide area could reach more than a quarter of dated events. Next, true slide events and noise (caused by creep) were differentiated in the structure of growth disturbances (reaction wood vs. abrupt growth suppression) and their proportion in event reconstruction, spatial patterns of trees containing slope movement signals, and the character of triggers. Thus, for better filtering of noise from signals in tree-ring-based chronologies of landslides, not only observations of dendrogeomorphic index values but also the morphology of landslides and characteristics of dated processes must be considered.     

Influence of hydrocarbon injection on the compaction by pressure-solution of a carbonate rock: An experimental study under triaxial stresses

The preservation of good petrophysical properties (high porosity/high permeability) at great depth in carbonate rocks may lead to the existence of a deeply buried reservoir (DBR), a target of interest for the oil industry. One of the key processes controlling diagenesis of the burial environment is Pressure Solution Creep (PSC), an efficient compaction process responsible for the evolution of porosity and permeability in many carbonate reservoirs. In this experimental study, we examine the effect of i) the presence of oil in the pore space and ii) its timing of injection on the PSC process and the petrophysical properties of a carbonate rock. The experiments were performed using a flow-through high-pressure cell, allowing the simulation of the pressure/stresses and temperature conditions of a DBR. Multi-disciplinary data (mechanical, chemical, petrographical and petrophysical) demonstrate that, without oil in the pore space, the main diagenetic process is the PSC, a process reducing by three the initial porosity but having no influence on intrinsic water permeability. An early injection of oil prior to water circulation causes the inhibition of PSC by the coating of the grains, leading to the preservation of porosity. Conversely, a late injection of oil does not preserve initial porosity. The dataset obtained from these experiments show the importance of the timing of oil charging in a reservoir in the preservation of initial porosity at great depth by the inhibition of PSC. However, the coating of grains by hydrocarbons may also inhibit further diagenetic processes leading to a creation of secondary porosity at depth.