Three‐dimensional simulations of tensile cracks in geomaterials by coupling meshless and finite element method

Failure in geotechnical engineering is often related to tension‐induced cracking in geomaterials. In this paper, a coupled meshless method and FEM is developed to analyze the problem of three‐dimensional cracking. The radial point interpolation method (RPIM) is used to model cracks in the smeared crack framework with an isotropic damage model. The identification of the meshless region is based on the stress state computed by FEM, and the adaptive coupling of RPIM and FEM is achieved by a direct algorithm. Mesh‐bias dependency, which poses difficulties in FEM‐based cracking simulations, is circumvented by a crack tracking algorithm. The performance of our scheme is demonstrated by two numerical examples, that is, the four‐point bending test on concrete beam and the surface cracks caused by tunnel excavation. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

人居环境治理视域下地质文化村建设路径研究

地质文化村是脱贫攻坚和乡村振兴背景下衍生出的乡村地质遗迹保护和开发利用相结合的新概念,目前正在全国多地推广设立,现有研究主要集中在内涵分析和规划设计方面,其具体建设过程中缺乏科学的路径参考。本研究从乡村人居环境治理的视角出发,首先,在讨论的基础上将地质文化村归类于人居环境“景区化治理”的一种形式;其次,基于扎根理论的研究方法将筛选的39篇“人居环境治理”主题文献作为研究资料,利用NVivo11对文献内容进行编码,构建了“人居环境治理”主题分析框架;最后,在归纳和借鉴人居环境领域研究成果的基础上,从“响应国家战略”、“建设思路”、“保障措施”“建设手段”四个方面提出了地质文化村的建设路径。     

Elevation dependency of recent and future minimum surface air temperature trends in the Tibetan Plateau and its surroundings

Elevation dependency of climate change signals has been found over major mountain ranges such as the European Alps and the Rockies, as well as over the Tibetan Plateau. In this study we examined the temporal trends in monthly mean minimum temperatures from 116 weather stations in the eastern Tibetan Plateau and its vicinity during 1961–2006. We also analyzed projected climate changes in the entire Tibetan Plateau and its surroundings from two sets of modeling experiments under future global warming conditions. These analyses included the output of the NCAR Community Climate System Model (CCSM3) with approximately 150 km horizontal resolution for the scenario of annual 1% increase in atmospheric CO₂ for future 100 years and physically-based downscaling results from the NCAR CAM3/CLM3 model at 10' × 10' resolution during three 20-year mean periods (1980–1999, 2030–2049 and 2080–2099) for the IPCC mid-range emission (A1B) scenario. We divided the 116 weather stations and the regional model grids into elevation zones of 500 m interval to examine the relationship of climatic warming and elevation. With these corroborating datasets, we were able to confirm the elevation dependency in monthly mean minimum temperature in and around the Tibetan Plateau. The warming is more prominent at higher elevations than at lower elevations, especially during winter and spring seasons, and such a tendency may continue in future climate change scenarios. The elevation dependency is most likely caused by the combined effects of cloud-radiation and snow-albedo feedbacks among various influencing factors.     

基于改进A*算法的水下重力匹配导航路径规划

水下重力匹配导航作为辅助手段,能够有效克服惯性导航系统在水下长时间航行产生的误差积累.重力场的不规则性,使得不同海域重力场适配性存在差异,重力特征变化显著的海域匹配精度较高,反之精度较低.在适配性评价基础上,对导航路径进行规划有助于提高作业任务可行性,合理规避不利因素.本文采用重力异常标准差、粗糙度等特征参数对海域重力场适配性进行评价,形成重力场适配格网参考图,引入A^*算法规划起始点和目标点间路径,达到了有效规避非适配区、提高航路设计合理性的目的.传统A^*算法存在的问题是,规划路径折线较多、线路总弯曲度大,本文设计了一种改进方法,通过前后向对比分析,对单个路径节点逐个进行筛选过滤,有效减少了冗余航向调整,实现了路径的平滑优化.     

Improved methods to transform frequency‐dependent complex stiffness to time domain

A method to transform the frequency‐dependent complex stiffness to the impulse response in the time domain was proposed in the previous paper. However, there is a problem in that the accuracy and the convergence of the transformed impulse response are not good in some cases. Moreover, the hysteretic damping was not considered in the previous study although it is essential for practical purposes. In this paper, transform method improvements are proposed. First, the accuracy and the convergence are improved by taking the concept of virtual mass into account. Then, a more improved method for transforming the complex stiffness with large hysteretic damping to the time domain is proposed using the least square method. It is well known that the rigorous transform of the hysteretic damping is impossible because it is non‐causal. So this method is thought to be an approximate causalization process. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A Procedure for Estimating the Variance Function of Linear Models and for Checking the Appropriateness of Estimated Variances: A Case Study of GPS Carrier-phase Observations

In many applications of linear model theory, homogeneous variances are assumed. In practice, however, the variances are frequently heterogeneous. Therefore, to improve the results, the unknown variances have to be estimated. The appropriateness of the estimated variances has then to be checked by a suitable statistical test procedure. Such a procedure is also useful to study models of global positioning system (GPS) carrier-phase observations. While the functional model of GPS carrier-phase observations is widely accepted, the stochastic model is still under development. As well as the neglected correlations of GPS observations, a homogenous variance function is frequently assumed. In Bischoff et al. (J Geod 78:397–404, 2005), we showed by statistical testing that the assumption of constant variances is not appropriate. In this paper, we give a procedure to estimate an individual variance function for a pair of satellites and a procedure to check the appropriateness of the estimated variances. As an example, the approach is applied to double-differenced carrier-phase GPS observations.     

Multicollinearity in cross-sectional regressions

The paper examines robustness of results from cross-sectional regression paying attention to the impact of multicollinearity. It is well known that the reliability of estimators (least-squares or maximum-likelihood) gets worse as the linear relationships between the regressors become more acute. We resolve the discussion in a spatial context, looking closely into the behaviour shown, under several unfavourable conditions, by the most outstanding misspecification tests when collinear variables are added to the regression. A Monte Carlo simulation is performed. The conclusions point to the fact that these statistics react in different ways to the problems posed.     

Modeling of strain dependency of shear modulus and damping of clayey sand

A series of cyclic triaxial tests on clayey sands was carried out and attempts were made to evaluate the strain dependency of shear modulus and damping. Strain dependencies of shear modulus and damping were simply modeled. It was shown that the change in the effective confining stress with loading cycles in the undrained shear test needed to be considered particularly in the large strain range. The consideration could be made by normalizing G with G′₀=AF(e)(σ′_m/σ_mr)ⁿ, the initial shear modulus for the effective confining stress of that particular loading cycle, instead of using G₀. G/G′₀ was expressed by a function of γ as G/G′₀=1/(1+b_gγ) which was almost stress level independent for clayey sands used in this study. The damping ratio was not much affected by the confining stress. The strain dependency of the damping ratio was modeled by h=a_hγ/(1+b_hγ). Effects of load irregularity on the shear modulus were also investigated. The excess pore pressure and the residual strain were generated especially when the major peaks in the irregular loading were applied to the specimen. However, G/G′₀ for the irregular loading could be represented reasonably well by the average curve for the uniform cyclic loading, if the excess pore water pressure and the residual strain were taken into account.     

地震废墟环境下Wi-Fi无线信号传播模型参数测量

本文主要针对地震废墟下手机Wi-Fi无线定位,分析实际废墟环境下Wi-Fi 2.4G无线信号的传播特性。通过对废墟结构的分析,使用矢量网络分析仪进行信道测量,对大尺度和小尺度衰减两种特性进行信道分析。采取理论预测和实际测量分析相结合的方法,对2008年5·12汶川地震的极重灾区遗址进行了废墟实地测量。对大尺度衰减进行路径损耗和钢筋混凝土吸收损耗分析,对小尺度衰减进行了平均超量时延和均方根时延分析,利用加窗、计算滑动均值,得到废墟下2.4G无线信号的传播规律,为下一步定位工作提供理论基础。     

东南极拉斯曼丘陵斯图尔内斯半岛及邻区片麻岩变质作用:相平衡模拟与锆石年代学

东南极拉斯曼丘陵斯图尔内斯半岛及邻区发育不同类型的片麻岩。本文结合岩相学、相平衡模拟以及年代学分析等方法对该地区石榴石斜方辉石片麻岩(样品LSM178-2)和石榴石夕线尖晶石片麻岩(样品LSM302-10)进行综合研究,结果显示片麻岩经历了中低压高温麻粒岩相变质作用。样品LSM178-2峰期温压条件为T=830～870℃,P=6.1～8.9kbar,后期退变至T 705℃,P=3.6～5.4kbar。石榴石夕线尖晶石片麻岩(LSM302-10)保存的峰期温压范围为T=860～1050℃,P=4.8～10.2kbar,之后退变至T=820～840℃,P=4.7～5kbar。样品LSM178-2主要矿物组合对应的变质年龄为～543±5.7Ma。样品LSM302-10中锆石暗灰色边年龄为531±5.7Ma,浅灰色边年龄为509±5.9Ma,这些变质年龄可能反映了持续较长时间的泛非期构造热事件(ca. 540～510Ma)。结合相关区域已有资料分析,拉斯曼丘陵西部斯图尔内斯半岛及邻区片麻岩记录的中低压高温麻粒岩相变质作用可能反映了造山作用后期的抬升与伸展。