节理网络分形在隧道超前地质预报中的应用

分形几何是20世纪70年代以来发展起来的研究非线性现象的理论和方法,这一理论的诞生为揭示隐藏于混乱复杂现象的精细结构和定量地描述它们提供了理论基础。将分形的方法引入到隧道的超前地质预报,通过岩体结构面网络的分维值来预测岩体的质量。结合工程实例可以看出,岩体结构具有良好的分形特征,其分形描述可作为评价结构岩体质量的标准之一。分形方法是评价岩体性质的一个有效的方法,具有广泛的应用前景。     

Discussion on the relationship between longitudinal cracks and alignment of subgrade in permafrost regions

At present, embankment longitudinal cracks are a major problem in highways through permafrost regions, and seriously affect traffic safety and the normal operations of the highway. In the past, roadbed height in permafrost regions was relatively low, and embankment cracks were rare and did not affect traffic safety. Thus, highway designers and researchers paid little attention to this problem, and they knew very little about distribution laws and mechanism of embankment longitudinal cracks. Due to this lack of knowledge, there is no uniform opinion on this problem, making it difficult to find measures that will mediate the impact of longitudinal cracks. Temperature is a major factor that affects and controls embankment stability in permafrost regions, especially in ice-rich and high-temperature regions, and solar radiation is the principal factor that determines surface temperatures. Under higher embankment, the difference of temperature will be larger between a sunny slope and a shady slope. Hence, the probability for longitudinal cracks generation is higher. In this paper, a survey and analysis of longitudinal cracks along the Qinghai-Tibet Highway were carried out. The longitudinal cracks are found to be related to the road strikes. Solar radiation is considered to play an important role in the generation of longitudinal cracks.     

底板导水裂隙带中含承压水裂隙的力学特性

华北煤田煤系地层的底部为含水丰富的奥陶系灰岩,该层灰岩与地表水系和煤系地层含水层存在着密切的水力联系。许多大型突水是采掘空间与含水层之间形成突水通道引起的。因此,分析开采工过程中底板岩体中含承压水裂隙的断裂力学特性具有重要意义。本文采用作者提出的数值方法分析了含高压水裂隙在开采过程中的断裂力学特性。假设裂隙面上作用着均匀水压力,考虑地应力的影响,采用断裂力学的叠加原理,分析了采煤工作面推进过程中含承压水裂隙的断裂力学特性,讨论了开采过程中底板承压水导升。结果表明:在工作面推进过程中,位于底板岩层且与含承压水岩层连通的裂隙,会在承压水水压力和扰动应力的共同作用下,产生破坏,导水裂隙带的高度会增加;这就增加了底板突水的危险性。     

Morphological characteristics of the earthquake surface ruptures on Awaji Island, associated with the 1995 Southern Hyogo Prefecture Earthquake

Abstract The earthquake surface ruptures on the northern side of Awaji Island accompanying the 1995 Southern Hyogo Prefecture Earthquake in Japan consist of three earthquake surface rupture zones called the Nojima, Matsuho, and Kusumoto Earthquake Surface Rupture Zones. The Nojima Earthquake Surface Rupture Zone is - 18 km long and was formed from Awaji-cho at the northern end of Awaji Island to Ichinomiya-cho. It occurred along the pre-existing Nojima geological fault in the northern segment and as a new fault in the southern segment. The northern segment of the Nojima Earthquake Surface Rupture Zone is composed of some subparallel shear faults showing a right-step en echelon form and many extensional cracks showing a left-step en echelon form. The southern segment consists of some discontinuous surface ruptures which are concentrated in a narrow zone a few tens of meters in width. This surface rupture zone shows a general trend striking north 30°-60° east, and dipping 75°-85° east. The deformational topographies and striations on the fault plane generated during the co-seismic displacement show that the Nojima Earthquake Surface Rupture Zone is a right-lateral strike-slip fault with some reverse component. Displacements measured at many of the outcrops are generally 100-200 em horizontally and 50-100 em vertically in the northern segment and a few em to 20 em both horizontally and vertically in the southern segment. The largest displacements are 180 em horizontally, 130 em vertically, and 215 em in netslip measured at the Hirabayashi fault scarp. The Matsuho Earthquake Surface Rupture Zone striking north 40°-60° west was also found along the coastline trending northwest-southeast in Awaji-cho for ～1 km at the northern end of Awaji Island. The Kusumoto Earthquake Surface Rupture Zone occurred along the pre-existing Kusumoto geological fault for ～ 1.5 km near the northeastern coastline, generally striking north 35°-60° east, dipping 60°-70° west. From the morphological and geomorphological characteristics, the Nojima Earthquake Surface Rupture Zone can be divided into four segments which form a right-step en echelon formation. The geological and geomorphological evidence and the aftershock epicenter distributions show clearly that the distributions and geometry of these four segments are controlled by the pre-existing geological structures.     

Prediction of tension crack location and riverbank erosion hazards along destabilized channels

Riverbank erosion, associated sedimentation and land loss hazards are a land management problem of global significance and many attempts to predict the onset of riverbank instability have been made. Recently, Osman and Thorne (1988) have presented a Culmann-type analysis of the stability of steep, cohesive riverbanks; this has the potential to be a considerable improvement over previous bank stability theories, which do not account for bank geometry changes due to toe scour and lateral erosion. However, in this paper it is shown that the existing Osman-Thorne model does not properly incorporate the influence of tension cracking on bank stability since the location of the tension crack on the floodplain is indirectly determined via calculation or arbitrary specification of the tension crack depth. Furthermore, accurate determination of tension crack location is essential to the calculation of the geometry of riverbank failure blocks and hence prediction of land loss and bank sediment yield associated with riverbank instability and channel widening. In this paper, a rational, physically based method to predict the location of tension cracks on the floodplain behind the eroding bank face is presented and tested. A case study is used to illustrate the computational procedure required to apply the model. Improved estimates of failure block geometry using the new method may potentially be applied to improve predictions of bank retreat and floodplain land loss along river channels destabilized as a result of environmental change.     

基于3DEC特厚水平煤层开采地表裂缝分布规律研究

针对我国中西部某矿区的特厚水平煤层综放开采导致的沉降变形、地表裂缝等问题,本文在总结该矿区各工作面地质采矿条件的基础上,结合以往沉陷预计中岩层岩块物理力学参数的选取原则,以摩尔-库伦塑性模型作为计算模型,采用离散元3DEC数值模拟的方法,分析了煤层开采后的地表下沉和水平变形情况。同时,本文结合实地采集的裂缝和塌陷区数据,对开采后上覆岩层垮落情况及裂缝发育情况进行研究,总结出该煤矿水平特厚煤层开采后地表裂缝的分布规律和地表移动变形规律,对该煤矿的生产和开采具有指导意义。     

地震作用下平行地裂缝场地隧道动力响应分析

以西安地铁3号线小寨区间近距离平行地裂缝的特殊工程场地为工程研究背景,基于有限差分原理的FLAC3D数值模拟方法,研究地震和地裂缝场地沉降耦合荷载作用时地铁隧道地震动力响应问题。结果表明：地表峰值加速度在地裂缝附近取得最大值,且PGA放大系数由地裂缝向两侧逐渐衰减;地裂缝隧道场地水平地震土压力增量随着输入地震波峰值加速度PGA的增大而增大;上盘的水平土压力增量明显大于下盘,且曲线在地铁隧道处存在一个峰值;隧道结构中,左拱腰处水平土压力相比右拱腰及拱顶处水平土压力较大,且拱底与左拱腰处水平土压力一致;隧道拱顶处水平土压力增幅量明显,且隧道处水平土压力增量随输入地震波PGA的增大而增大,左拱腰处的水平土压力地震响应大于右拱腰,但增幅小于右拱腰。     

The role of the 1999 Chamoli earthquake in the formation of ground cracks

The moderate magnitude Chamoli earthquake that occurred in the Garhwal Higher Himalaya, in the early hours of March 29, 1999, caused intense damage to the ground and mountain slopes of the Alaknanda–Mandakini river valley and adjoining region. A systematic survey of this induced damage was conducted immediately after the earthquake occurred. Prominent shallow cracks of significant length, negligible width and indeterminate vertical extent, conspicuously tensile in nature, with little or no slip across the crack planes, were observed in the ground at several places along the surveyed route. These cracks had formed in the dynamic phase of the Chamoli earthquake process that is in the period of time during which the earthquake-generated seismic waves were passing through the geographic region of interest. However, we use the theory of earthquake-induced static (or long time) stress changes to visualize such cracks at some selected sites where ground damage was relatively more intense and varied to suggest lower bound estimates of the dynamic stress contributions of the main shock for their formation.Based on the results of our analysis we conclude that, just prior to the earthquake occurrence, under the influence of the local ambient stress field, the ground at these sites was already near failure in tension. To this, in its dynamic phase, the Chamoli earthquake induced stress perturbations, having, across the planes of the cracks, (i) shear components which were nearly equal and opposite to similar components of the ambient stress field and (ii) normal (tensile) components, necessary for triggering tensile failure of the ground. The σ₃ (or minimum principal stress) component of the resultant perturbed failure stress field thus became sufficiently tensile while the transverse stresses became sufficiently insignificant. This facilitated formation of major tensile cracks in the ground there. Our static estimates of the tensile stress changes at the different sites are, in essence, estimates of the minimal triggering stress perturbations that was provided by the Chamoli earthquake in the dynamic state for the formation of the tensile cracks there.