Integrated sedimentology and ichnology of Late Jurassic fluvial point‐bars – facies architecture and colonization styles (Lourinhã Formation,Lusitanian Basin,western Portugal)

Integrated sedimentological and ichnological case studies of ancient meandering river systems have, for the most part, focused on the deposits of the fluvial–tidal transition zone; much less emphasis has been placed on the purely fluvial realm above the landward limit of tidal effects. This problem needs to be addressed so that in future the defining sedimentological and ichnological criteria assigned to ancient fluvial reaches are sufficiently well‐established to enable their separation from the down‐dip fluvial–tidal transition zone. Accordingly, a case study has been carried out on a well‐exposed meander belt deposit from the Late Jurassic Lourinhã Formation of the Lusitanian Basin, western Portugal (Praia Do Valmitão, Ribamar). Analysis indicates that the meander belt here comprised mixed‐load fluvial channels traversing a vegetated floodplain subject to a seasonal winter wet/summer dry palaeoclimate. This setting facilitated the development of both calcic palaeosols and shallow lakes on the adjacent floodplain. Critically, there is no evidence of the effects of tidal modulation on bedding structures, thereby establishing purely fluvial conditions. Heterolithic point‐bar deposits generated in this setting are bioturbated extensively by a trace fossil assemblage dominated by the meniscate trace Taenidium barretti , with Skolithos linearis , Planolites beverleyensis and Cylindricum isp. also recognized. A number of factors suggest that the Taenidium barretti producer in this case was a subaquatic organism living in an active fluvial channel setting (i.e. not colonizing subaerially exposed channel‐margin/floodplain deposits). Accordingly, there are some implications for current ichnofabric/ichnofacies models in the continental realm. Firstly, Taenidium ‐dominated ichnofabrics need not necessarily be confined to colonization beneath subaerially exposed surfaces; they might also be produced within submerged substrates. Secondly, there is scope to extend the range of the Scoyenia ichnofacies to include active fluvial channels and not simply those channels that were inactive or abandoned.     

Observations and conceptual modelling of morphological coupling in a double sandbar system

Nearshore sandbars, located in <10 m water depth, can contain remarkably periodic alongshore undulations in both cross‐shore position and depth. In a double sandbar system, the alongshore spacing of these morphological patterns in the inner sandbar may be identical to those in the outer sandbar. Although this morphological coupling has been observed previously, its frequency and predominance remain unclear. In this paper, we use a 9.3‐year dataset of daily low‐tide time exposure images from the double‐barred beach at Surfers Paradise (Gold Coast, Australia) to analyse the temporal and spatial characteristics of morphological coupling within a double sandbar system. We distinguish five types of morphological coupling between the inner and outer sandbars, of which four coincide with a downstate progression of the outer bar. Coupling is either in‐phase (with a landward perturbation of the inner bar facing an outer‐bar horn) or out‐of‐phase (with a seaward perturbation of the inner bar facing an outer‐bar horn), where the coupled inner‐bar features either consist of rip channels or, predominantly, perturbations of the low‐tide terrace. Cross‐correlation of the image‐derived inner‐ and outer‐bar patterns shows coupling to be a common phenomenon in the double sandbar system studied here, with coupling in 40% of the observations. In contrast to previous observations of sandbar–shoreline coupling at single‐barred beaches, in‐phase coupling (85% of all coupled bar patterns) predominates over out‐of‐phase coupling (15%). Based on our observations and bathymetries assimilated from the images for a restricted set of coupling events, we hypothesize that the angle of offshore wave incidence, wave height and depth variations along the outer sandbar determine the type of flow pattern (cell circulations versus meandering currents) above the inner bar and hence steer the type of coupling. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

含腐蚀缺陷高强钢厚壁管道压溃压力预测方法

腐蚀是管道常见的缺陷形式之一,会极大降低管道的压溃压力,同时深海环境下高静水外压易引发管道压溃失效,威胁管道的安全运行,因此准确预测管道压溃压力显得尤为重要。采用数值模拟方法研究了含腐蚀缺陷的高强钢厚壁管道压溃失效模式,分析了管材、管道径厚比、腐蚀深度、长度和宽度等参数对高强钢厚壁管道压溃压力的影响规律。分析结果表明:管道径厚比愈大,对厚壁管道的承压能力提升愈显著;腐蚀缺陷的存在对管道压溃压力具有减小作用;随着管道材料等级的提升,压溃压力有明显提高。提出了相应的压溃压力预测公式,为厚壁管道完整性评价提供了参考依据。     

Analyse af den morfologiske udvikling på strandplanet nord for indsejlingen til Torsminde havn 1947–85

Olsen, H.A.: Analyse af den morfologiske udvikling på strandplanet nord for indsejlingen til Torsminde havn 1947–85. Geografisk Tidsskrift 86: 31–45. København, juni 1986.

Abstract

Movement of bars on the off-shore by Torsminde harbour on the west coast of Jutland, Denmark is described and connected with structures of moles and sedimentation in the port entrance.     

高强度螺栓摩擦型连接火灾后抗剪试验研究

建筑火灾发生频繁且对钢结构危害严重,但总体而言绝大多数火灾并未造成钢结构的根本性破坏,尽快鉴定其火灾后安全性并进行加固修复,对于减小灾后间接经济损失意义重大。高强度螺栓摩擦型连接是钢结构最常用的连接方式之一,其火灾后受力性能对整个结构灾后承载的安全至关重要。但目前国内外对高强度螺栓连接高温过火冷却后的受力性能研究极少。本文对高强度螺栓摩擦型连接进行了火灾后抗剪试验研究,得到了连接的抗滑移承载力、极限承载力以及荷载—变形曲线,研究了过火温度、冷却方式对连接受力性能的影响。为模拟火灾中的可能情况,试验考虑了自然冷却、泼水冷却两种冷却方式。试验表明,当高强度螺栓连接的过火温度不超过400°C时,连接的抗滑移承载力、极限承载力下降小,可判定连接仍能承受外部设计荷载,不需要对连接进行加固或替换螺栓;当过火温度超过400°C时,连接的抗滑移承载力、极限承载力开始显著下降,需连接更进一步的检测并进行仔细的结构分析,以确定连接能否继续承受外部设计荷载,以及是否需要采取必要的加固与修复措施。     

青海湖近岸现代沉积滩坝主要类型及沉积特征*

滩坝是隐蔽油气藏最重要的沉积储集层类型之一,已成为陆相断陷盆地油气勘探的重要领域。现代沉积滩坝的研究是深入认识滩坝沉积相的有效手段。环湖考察研究发现青海湖近岸滩坝类型多样,主要发育了废弃三角洲前缘处滩坝、三角洲侧缘处滩坝、湖岸线拐弯处滩坝、开阔滨浅湖处滩坝和冲积扇改造处滩坝5种类型。通过对各种类型滩坝剖面的详细分层及沉积物室内矿物组成分析等,发现不同类型滩坝砂体沉积特征存在很大差异。整体而言,青海湖近岸滩坝沉积物粒度较粗,黏土含量低,结构成熟度较高,沉积构造多见平行层理、交错层理和冲洗交错层理,垂向上表现出上粗下细的反韵律特征。同时,选取了青海湖南岸规模较大的坝相,分别对坝主体、坝间和坝侧缘进行详细的探槽剖面分析,得出坝主体单旋回厚度较坝间和坝侧缘大,沉积物粒度也相对较粗,黏土含量最低,分选性也最好,是发育为隐蔽油藏最有利的区域。     

高强混凝土框架柱的地震损伤模型

本文首先讨论了现有的几种地震损伤模型及其特点,然后计算出试验框架柱累积滞回耗能随加载循环水平的变化,分析和讨论了轴压比、箍筋形式、配箍率、纵向配筋率、混凝土强度等级以及剪跨比对累积滞回耗能的影响。根据现有的损伤模型,对试验框架柱的损伤指数进行了分析比较,给出了符合高强混凝土框架柱和普通混凝土框架柱的地震损伤模型。根据损伤指数随加载循环水平的变化规律,分析和讨论了剪跨比、轴压比以及配箍率对损伤的影响。最后通过对各地震损伤模型的比较分析,提出了高强混凝土框架柱的地震损伤模型。     

XJY850高强度精密地质管材的研制

根据国内地质勘查行业对大深度高强度绳索取心钻杆的迫切需求,经过分析地质管材的使用要求,在参考国外同类产品材料的基础上,改进无缝钢管生产的传统加工工艺,研制开发了XJY850高强度精密地质管材。     

Bar structure in an arid ephemeral stream

This study describes the structure of gravel bars in Nahal Zin, an ephemeral stream in the Negev desert. The internal structure of the bars was examined along trenches and in shallow pits. Gravel sheets and unit bars form during transporting flow events in the main channel, on intra-bar channels and near bar heads. Unit bars are dominated by the Go facies. Compound bars develop from accretion around, and modification of, unit bars. Compound bars are active under the current flow regime and the average depth of the fill layer is about 35 cm. The structure of compound bars is dominated by Gm (massive), containing large amounts of sand. The second most common facies is clast-supported, openwork, and well sorted sediments of the Go (pebbles) facies. Bar formation, and the development of the range of facies evident in the bars is controlled by sediment supply, particularly the high volumes of sand-sized sediment, the passage of gravel sheets and bedforms during floods, and the lateral and vertical instability of the channel. Repeated scour and fill events have produced a diverse arrangement of facies, with numerous erosional contacts between depositional units. Lateral and downstream shifts in the pattern of scour and fill due to flow and antecedent conditions shape the channel morphology and bar internal structure. Ephemeral river bars differ from those of humid and proglacial rivers in terms of the dominant facies present, the arrangement of the facies within the bars, and the sedimentary structures developed within the depositional units and on the bar surface.     

Observations of offshore bar decay: Sediment budgets and the role of lower shoreface processes

Long-term, net offshore bar migration is a common occurrence on many multiple-barred beaches. The first stage of the process involves the generation of a longshore bar close to the shoreline that oscillates about a mean position for some time, followed by a stage of net offshore migration across the upper shoreface, and finally a stage of decaying bar form through loss of sediment volume at the outer boundary of the upper shoreface. The phenomenon has been previously documented in the Netherlands, the USA, the Canadian Great Lakes, and in New Zealand, but our present understanding of the morphodynamic processes and sediment transport pathways involved in bar decay is limited. In this paper, long-term, net offshore bar migration is investigated at Vejers Beach, located on the North Sea coast of Denmark where offshore bar migration rates are of the order of 45–55 m a⁻¹. A wave height transformation model confirmed that the decay of the outer bar results in increased wave heights and undertow speeds at the more landward bar potentially causing this bar to speed up its offshore migration. The causes for outer bar decay were investigated through field measurements of sediment transport at the decaying bar and at a position further seaward on the lower shoreface. The measurements showed that a cross-shore transport convergence exists between the bar and the lower shoreface and that the loss of sediment involved in bar decay is associated with a longshore directed transport by non-surf zone processes. At Vejers, and possibly elsewhere, the net offshore migration of bars and the subsequent loss of sand during bar decay is an important part of the beach and shoreface sediment budget.