A Three-Dimensional Analysis of the Total and Effective Stresses in Submerged Backfilled Stopes

The determination of the stress state in backfilled stopes is an important step for assessing the behaviour of mine openings and for designing barricades. Most previous analyses have considered only the 2D case (plane strain condition) and neglected the effect of pore water pressure. In this paper, a three-dimensional solution is proposed for totally or partly submerged backfill. The new solution gives the normal stresses along the vertical and horizontal axes, with the effect of a surface load on the backfill. The solution is validated using laboratory experimental results taken from the literature. The good agreement obtained between the proposed analytical solution and laboratory test results indicates that this new solution provides a realistic evaluation for both the total and effective stresses in vertical backfilled stopes.     

三向应力作用下节理岩体渗流-应力耦合特性

节理岩体渗流-应力耦合特性研究是岩石力学领域的重点和难点。水利水电工程与地下工程中天然节理岩体往往处于三向不等压应力状态,针对三向应力状态下节理岩体渗流-应力耦合特性研究较少。其中,单节理岩体渗流-应力耦合特性研究是基础。首先分析与探究了单节理岩体侧向应力作用效果及渗流作用机制,在单节理岩体渗透性-应力耦合分析模型基础上推导了单节理岩体渗流-应力耦合的理论公式。通过室内真三轴渗流-应力耦合试验,基于全局优化算法的非线性拟合及块体离散元数值仿真,验证了所提出理论公式的合理性。基于电路原理,给出了模拟电路与渗流问题的相似物理量,通过引入等效渗流阻方法,探究了典型的含正六边形主干节理网络的渗流-应力耦合特性。该研究结果对实际工程岩体的渗流分析有一定的参考价值。     

湖泊蓝藻多聚磷酸盐代谢机制及功能

大规模蓝藻水华暴发对湖泊水生态系统健康和饮用水安全产生巨大危害,而湖泊水体磷是影响蓝藻水华暴发程度的重要生源要素。应对水体不同磷酸盐浓度,蓝藻高效运行磷酸盐转运系统和磷酸盐特殊转运系统,并合成多聚磷酸盐(聚磷)。蓝藻胞内存在颗粒态、胶体态和可溶态3种形态的聚磷,且不同形态的聚磷分布位置不同。不同蓝藻合成聚磷颗粒的大小、数量和合成期均有所差异。多聚磷酸盐激酶、多聚磷酸盐外切酶、多聚磷酸盐内切酶和P-AMP-磷酸转移酶分别催化聚磷的合成与分解。多聚磷酸盐是二价阳离子的螯合剂,也是磷酸盐及高能磷酸键的储藏库,为细胞生存提供阳离子、磷酸盐和能量,满足蓝藻生命活动过程中生理生化活动所需,具有抵御高温、高pH、紫外线和营养盐缺乏等环境胁迫的生理功能,提升其在不利环境中的生存能力。同时,在蓝藻水华持续暴发、湖泊藻型生境稳态和磷生物地球化学循环过程中聚磷发挥重要的生态功能。因此,蓝藻合成聚磷的分子生物学机制及生态功能研究能够阐明聚磷的存在如何改变湖泊水体—沉积物磷分配、食物网中磷传递等。而开展调控聚磷合成的技术研究,通过控制蓝藻合成聚磷来减轻蓝藻水华暴发规模,将为湖泊水体良性生态系统的重构提供新方法。     

Differential thermal stresses in the Earth

Summary. Rocks have a significant thermal expansion coefficient and a high modulus of elasticity. Small thermal changes can therefore generate very substantial stresses. A convenient idealized example is the mechanically free, cooling thermal boundary layer in a material that suddenly turns from plastic to rigid in cooling through a 'rigidus' temperature. This simplified case can be solved analytically for both a linear and an error function temperature profile. A compressed layer develops near the surface, with a logarithmic singularity of stress at the boundary. At a depth of 0.2 of the elastic thickness, the stress changes to tensile, and peaks at 15 per cent of the confined shrinkage stress in the middle of the rigid layer. The situation is similar to the stresses in one half of a piece of tempered glass. Like the tempered glass, both the cooling lithosphere and a plated boundary to a magma chamber are subject to breakage when cracks are induced in the tensile layer. Positive pore (magma) pressure is required to overcome confining pressure at depth in the lithosphere, but cracking could become catastrophic in the plated boundary to a near-surface magma chamber.     

Effects of rupture complexity and stress regime on scaling relations of induced microseismic events

Source parameter scaling relations are examined for microseismic events (–2.4M–0.3) occurring within higyly and moderately stressed and fractured rock masses at Strathcona mine, Sudbury, Canada. Insight into scaling is provided by waveform complexities, calculated rupture velocities, and maximum shear stresses based onin situ and numerical modelling data. The importance of normal stress on the failure process is also considered. Our results show that a strong dependence exists between stress release and seismic moment. An observed positive scaling in excess stress release (/2– _a ) is consistent with the concept of overshoot. Rupture velocities ranging from 0.2 to 0.5 and waveform complexities less than 1.5 suggested that overshoot was related to healing behind a slowly advancing rupture front. Scaling in seismic efficiency paralleled that in apparent stress, implying that seismic stress release estimates are quasi-independent of the maximum shear stress. High levels of normal stress further supported the importance of high resisting stress in the observed overshoot behaviour and its role in the failure process.     

Long-term distribution of seabed shear stresses beneath random waves

The long-term distribution of seabed shear stresses under random waves is presented. The approach combines short-term distribution of maximum bottom shear stresses with a joint frequency table of significant wave height and peak period. An example of application is given where the long-term probability of exceeding a given level of the maximum bottom shear stress in the central North Sea is presented. The example includes estimation of the return period of the critical shear stress for sheet flow conditions, as well as the bottom shear stresses associated with the 1, 10 and 100 years return periods.     

雾冰藜(Bassia dasyphylla)种子萌发和幼苗生长对盐碱胁迫的响应

一年生植物是干旱半干旱地区植被的重要组成部分,是许多植物生态学关键问题研究的良好试验材料。为研究荒漠区一年生植物雾冰藜(Bassia dasyphylla)对盐碱生境的适应能力,采用2种中性盐NaCl、Na_2SO_4及2种碱性盐Na_2CO_3、NaHCO_3按不同比例混合成30种溶液对雾冰藜种子进行胁迫处理。结果表明:在所模拟的均匀覆盖了总盐度50~250mmol·L^-1、pH 7.10~10.19范围内的30种盐碱条件下,雾冰藜的各项萌发参数和生长指标在对照组(CK)下最高,且均随盐浓度及pH的升高而下降,各处理组与对照组间存在显著差异(P<0.05);盐度、pH及二者之间的交互作用对萌发和生长指标均有显著抑制作用(P<0.05);不同盐碱组分对雾冰藜种子萌发和幼苗生长的抑制作用表现为Na2CO3>NaHCO_3>NaCl>Na_2SO_4。雾冰藜种子在萌发阶段比幼苗生长阶段对盐碱胁迫更敏感,盐度是种子萌发的主要胁迫因素,pH值则是幼苗建植的主要胁迫因素。盐碱条件下盐度和pH之间交互作用对雾冰藜种子萌发阶段和幼苗建植的抑制影响比单一的盐或碱胁迫的影响大。     

Displacement and stress distributions under a uniform inclined rectangular load on a cross‐anisotropic geomaterial

In practical engineering, an applied rectangular area load is not often horizontally or vertically distributed but is frequently inclined at a certain angle with respect to the horizontal and vertical axes. Thus, the solutions of displacements and stresses due to such a load are essential to the design of foundations. This article yields the analytical solutions of displacements and stresses subjected to a uniform rectangular load that inclines with respect to the horizontal and vertical axes, resting on the surface of a cross‐anisotropic geomaterial. The planes of cross‐anisotropy are assumed to be parallel to the horizontal ground surface. The procedures to derive the solutions can be integrated the modified point load solutions, which are represented by several displacement and stresses elementary functions. Then, upon integrations, the displacement and stress integral functions resulting from a uniform inclined rectangular load for (1) the displacements at any depth, (2) the surface displacements, (3) the average displacements in a given layer, (4) the stresses at any depth, and (5) the average stresses in a given layer are yielded. The proposed solutions are clear and concise, and they can be employed to construct a series of calculation charts. In addition, the present solutions clarify the load inclinations, the dimensions of a loaded rectangle, and the analyzed depths, and the type and degree of geomaterial anisotropy profoundly affect the displacements and stresses in a cross‐anisotropic medium. Parametric results show that the load inclination factor should be considered when an inclined rectangular load uniformly distributed on the cross‐anisotropic material. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

盐源-宁蒗地震共轭破裂及极限主应力随地壳深度变化

许多震例表明,地震可以形成于共轭破裂。地震震源处,其温度和压力与地壳浅处及地表不同,温、压越高,共轭破裂角越大,随着深度的变浅(温、压减小),地震共轭破裂角减小;高烈度等震线共轭角也减小。用数学力学方法和岩石力学实验结果,探讨了1976年盐源-宁蒗6.7和6.4级地震共轭破裂及极限主应力随地壳深度变化。      

一种半无限土体中圆孔扩张的分析方法

在静压桩贯入问题的研究中,常用无限土体中圆孔扩张法来模拟桩端对土体的扩张。实际上,压桩问题属于半无限问题,必须考虑从无限问题转化到半无限问题后地面边界处应力的差异。针对半无限问题中地表应力的修正,在现有研究的基础上引入了应力函数解答来求解弹性条件下半无限问题,很好地修正了地表应力,得到了相应的解答。与原有的解答相比,提出的解答能够更好地反映半无限的特性,为进一步分析压桩问题奠定了基础。