Experimental investigation of the effect of grading characteristics on the liquefaction resistance of various graded sands

The liquefaction susceptibility of various graded fine to medium saturated sands are evaluated by stress controlled cyclic triaxial laboratory tests. Cyclic triaxial tests are performed on reconstituted specimens having global relative density of 60%. In all cyclic triaxial tests; loading pattern is selected as a sinusoidal wave form with 1.0 Hz frequency, and effective consolidation pressure is chosen to be 100 kPa. Liquefaction resistance is defined as the required cyclic stress ratio which caused initial liquefaction in 10 cycles during the cyclic triaxial test. The results are used to draw relationship between grading characteristics (e.g. coefficient of uniformity and coefficient of curvature) and the liquefaction resistance of various graded sands. It is found that a relationship between cyclic resistance and any of the size (i.e. D₁₀, D₃₀ or D₆₀) would be more realistic than to build a relation between grading characteristics and the cyclic resistance.     

铌钽精矿标准物质研制

铌钽精矿标准物质在监控选冶样品分析的过程起到重要作用,在选厂及冶金系统有很大的需求,国内外的文献检索均未发现铌钽精矿标准物质的报道;而铌钽矿物的性质决定了铌钽精矿的粉碎粒度及均匀性对铌钽精矿标准物质的研制提出了更高的要求。本文阐述了4个铌钽精矿标准物质的研制过程,铌钽精矿采集于宜春及尼日利亚铌钽选厂,样品经气流粉碎和高铝球磨两次细碎及机械混匀后,随机抽取包装好的样品进行均匀性和稳定性检验及定值。采用电感耦合等离子体发射光谱法与质谱法(ICP-OES/MS)进行均匀性和稳定性检验,结果表明样品的均匀性和稳定性良好。采用多个实验室协同测试的定值方式,利用不同原理的分析方法对此样品的铌钽等12个元素进行定值,给出了各定值元素的认定值和不确定度。4个铌钽精矿标准物质Ta(Nb)_2O_5的含量为9. 89%、20. 55%、40. 79%、53. 69%,形成一个从粗精矿到精矿较为完整的含量体系,可以满足选冶试验各阶段流程样品分析对标准物质的需求。     

顾及控制点均匀性的无人机实景三维建模精度分析

无人机(UAV)倾斜摄影技术以其低成本、高效率、高精度等优点成为实景三维模型构建的主流.实景三维模型的精度受很多因素影响,研究主要从控制点分布均匀性的角度出发,探究其对实景三维模型精度的影响,提出一种较为普适的控制点均匀性衡量指标.研究中设计了两种不同数目的控制点实验,每种实验各包含3种不同均匀性分布方案.使用UAV获...     

度量映射方法在河流分维测算中的应用

应用TM卫星图像数据,根据对黑龙江省阿什河约80 km河段、松花江及嫩江约2 300 km河段的分维研究,证明了在度量数列满足持邻性和等比收敛性的条件下,可以应用度量映射方法计算随机分形集的分维。研究表明,黑龙江省阿什河河段(约80 km)的分维比松花江和嫩江河段(约2 300 km)的分维高;曲线的分维一定要与标度的变化区间联系起来,否则分维将失去可比性;河流的分维不仅与标度有关,还与矢量化时原图像的分辨率有关。     

山地温性积雪内液体水含量的测定方法

通过在北欧ＡｕｓｔｒｅＯｋｓｔｉｎｄｂｒｅｅｎ冰川积雪内的实际测定结果,证明野外测量积雪内液体水含量的新方法－酒精量热法是可行和适用的,解决了过去测定积雪内液体水含量时遇到困难。５个雪坑剖面的测定结果清楚地显示雪内液体水含量的区带性和随高度的变化,积雪内液体水含量的垂直变化与雪层中物理结构,温度和密度的分布有关。     

Modelling hydrological conditions in the maritime forest region of south‐western Nova Scotia

Hydrological processes and conditions were quantified for the Mersey River Basin (two basins: one exiting below Mill Falls, and one exiting below George Lake), the Roger's Brook Basin, Moosepit Brook, and for other selected locations at and near Kejimkujik National Park in Nova Scotia, Canada, from 1967 to 1990. Addressed variables included precipitation (rain, snow, fog), air temperature, stream discharge, snowpack accumulations, throughfall, soil and subsoil moisture, soil temperature and soil frost, at a monthly resolution. It was found that monthly per hectare stream discharge was essentially independent of catchment area from <20 km² to more than 1000 km². The forest hydrology model ForHyM2 was used to simulate monthly rates of stream discharge, throughfall and snowpack water equivalents for mature forest conditions. These simulations were in good agreement with the historical records once the contributions of fog and mist to the area‐wide water budget were taken into account, each on a monthly basis. The resulting simulations establish a hydrologically consistent, continuous, comprehensive and partially verified record for basin‐wide outcomes for all major hydrological processes and conditions, be these related to stream discharge, soil moisture, soil temperature, snowpack accumulations, soil frost, throughfall, interception and soil percolation. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Portable rainfall simulator for plot-scale investigation of rainfall-runoff,and transport of sediment and pollutants

A low-cost, simple to use portable rainfall simulator is developed for use over a 5 m^2 plot. The simulator is easy to transport and assemble in the field, thereby allowing for necessary experimental replicates to be done. It provides rainfall intensities of between 20 and 100 mm/h by changing the number and type of silicon nozzles used. The Christiansen coefficient of uniformities obtained in the field are appropriate and vary from 79 to 94% for rainfall intensities ranging from 30 to 70 mm/h. In addition, the median volumetric drop diameters measured for rainfall intensities of 30, 50, and 70 mm/h are in the lower range of that of natural rainfall and equal to 1.10 ± 0.08,1.69 ± 0.21, and 1.66 ± 0.20 mm, respectively. The velocities of the raindrops with diameters less than 1.2 mm reached terminal velocities, while raindrops less than 2.0 mm achieved velocities reasonably close to the terminal velocity of natural rainfall. Furthermore,the average time-specific kinetic energy(KET) for rainfall intensities of 30, 50, and 70 mm/h are 257.7,760.1, and 1645.2 J/m^2/h, respectively accounting for about 78.0 and 86.5% of the KET of natural rainfall for50 and 70 mm/h rainfall intensity, respectively. The applicability of the portable rainfall simulator for herbicide transport study is investigated using two herbicides(atrazine and metolachlor); herbicide losses in runoff and sediment samples are in the ranges reported in the literature. As a percentage of the amount of herbicide applied, 5.29% of atrazine and 2.15% of metolachlor are lost due to combined water and sediment runoff. The results show that the portable rainfall simulator can be effectively used in studying processes such as pesticide runoff, infiltration mechanisms, and sediment generation and transport at a field plot scale with an emphasis on how surface characteristics such as slope and soil properties affect these processes.     

构造"稳定"区强震长期预测的简便途径--以张北地震为例

作为强震长期预测基础的地震带、潜在震源区的划分,仍然依据地震构造类比和地震活动重复两原则。现有的强震长期预测方法在构造“稳定”区,即没有活动构造、没有历史地震(包括古地震)资料的条件下,无能为力。通过张北地震资料的分析,高精度地震定位并结合波形数据反演震源机制的结果表明：在稳定而统一的构造应力场的作用下,沿其最大剪切应力方向上的小地震集中成带,并且持续活动、震源机制的优势取向与应力场吻合,小震带便可以看作属于现今活动的震源断层,在地震长期预测工作中可以作为划分潜在震源区的依据。构造“稳定”区发生的强震属于新破裂。     

On the influence of the grain size distribution curve on P-wave velocity,constrained elastic modulus Mmax and Poisson's ratio of quartz sands

The paper presents an experimental study on the influence of the grain size distribution curve on dynamic soil properties. More than 160 resonant column tests with additional P-wave measurements have been performed on 27 different grain size distribution curves of a quartz sand. While the small-strain shear modulus G_max has been discussed by Wichtmann and Triantafyllidis [1] the present paper focusses on P-wave velocity v_P, on the small-strain constrained elastic modulus M_max and on Poisson's ratio ν$\nu$. It is demonstrated that while v_P and M_max do not significantly depend on mean grain size d₅₀ in the investigated range, they decrease with increasing coefficient of uniformity C_u=d₆₀/d₁₀ of the grain size distribution curve. Poisson's ratio does also not depend on d₅₀ but increases with increasing C_u. An empirical formula similar to Hardin's equation has been developed for M_max, considering the influence of the grain size distribution curve. It predicts quite well the experimental data.     

Challenges of hydrological analysis for water resource development in semi-arid mountainous regions: case study in Iran

Abstract

This study modified the BTOPMC (Block-wise TOPMODEL with the Muskingum-Cunge routing method) distributed hydrological model to make it applicable to semi-arid regions by introducing an adjustment coefficient for infiltration capacity of the soil surface, and then applied it to two catchments above the dams in the Karun River basin, located in semi-arid mountain ranges in Iran. The application results indicated that the introduced modification improved the model performance for simulating flood peaks generated by infiltration excess overland runoff at a daily time scale. The modified BTOPMC was found to fulfil the need to reproduce important signatures of basin hydrology for water resource development, such as annual runoff, seasonal runoff, low flows and flood flows. However, it was also very clear that effective model use was significantly constrained by the scarcity of ground-gauged precipitation data. Considerable efforts to improve the precipitation data acquisition should precede water resource development planning.

Editor D. Koutsoyiannis