Ground surface response induced by shallow buried explosions

Based on the spherical cavity expansion theory in the elastic half space,the ground surface movement characteristics of shallowly buried explosions are analyzed.The results show that the induced seismic wave is a longitudinal wave in the near zone and a Rayleigh wave in the far zone.The maximum displacement(velocity) of the longitudinal wave and the Rayleigh wave are inversely proportional to the scaled distance,and can be described by exponential function with exponents equal to 1.4 and 0.5,respectively.The vibration frequencies of the waves have almost no change.The vibration frequency of the longitudinal wave approximates the natural vibration frequency of the cavity in the broken area,and the vibration frequency of the Rayleigh wave is about half that of the longitudinal wave.On the same reduced buried depth and reduced distance,the particle displacement is directly proportional to the product of the boundary loading and cavity radius,and is inversely proportional to the transversal wave velocity.Meanwhile,the particle velocity is directly proportional to the boundary loading and inversely proportional to the wave velocity ratio.In the far zone,the buried depth of the explosive only has a slight effect on the longitudinal wave,but has a larger effect on the Rayleigh wave.     

Nonlinear waves to study the evolution of collapsed soliton and its radiation

It has been shown that the Korteweg-de Vries equation, derived in inhomogeneous plasma, finds difficulty in obtaining the complete soliton solution and its propagation in plasma and thus fails to exhibit the actual nature of plasma acoustic-wave. The key here lies in the use of an approach, known as sine-Gordon method, which describes successfully soliton propagation along with its precursor. The study shows that the soliton, due to the interaction of negative ions, collapses expecting a source of soliton radiation. Moreover, inhomogeneity, along with weak ionization, effects the precursor to grow faster by generating the energy from its main soliton. The results are interesting in the light of having a parallel observation on radiation, and the formation of dip and hump solitons as similar to those observations made by the scientific satellites.