Quantifying the surface covering,binding and bonding effects of biological soil crusts on soil detachment by overland flow

Biological soil crusts (BSCs) have impacts on soil detachment process through surface covering, and binding and bonding (B&B) mechanisms, which might vary with successional stages of BSCs. This study was conducted to quantify the effects of surface covering, binding and bonding of BSCs on soil detachment capacity by overland flow in a 4 m long hydraulic flume with fixed bed. Two dominant BSC types, developed well in the Loess Plateau (the early successional cyanobacteria and the later successional moss), were tested using natural undisturbed soil samples collected from the abandoned farmlands. Two treatments of undisturbed crusts and one treatment of removing the above‐ground tissue of BSCs were designed for each BSC type. For comparison, bare loess soil was used as the baseline. The collected soil samples were subjected to flow scouring under six different shear stresses, ranging from 6.7 to 21.2 Pa. The results showed that soil detachment capacity (D_c) and rill erodibility (K_r) decrease with BSC succession, and the presence of BSCs obviously increased the critical shear stress, especially for the later successional moss crust. For the early successional cyanobacteria crust, D_c was reduced by 69.2% compared to the bare loess soil, where 37.7% and 31.5% are attributed to the surface covering and B&B, respectively. For the later successional moss crust, D_c decreased by 89.8% compared to the bare loess soil, where 68.9% and 20.9% contributed to the surface covering and B&B, respectively. These results are helpful in understanding the influencing mechanism of BSCs on soil erosion and in developing the process‐based erosion models for grassland and forestland. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

汶川地震远震区黄土场地地震反应特征分析

在实际场地钻孔资料的基础上,选取和构造45个有代表性的典型场地剖面,利用一维等效线性化波动方法,计算各个场地在三种不同强度地震动输入下的地表加速度反应。结果表明:(1)在远场地震动作用下,黄土场地PGA较大,反应谱平台范围较宽,集中在0.2~0.6s;(2)随着黄土覆盖厚度的增加,PGA减小,但对于自振周期大于一定范围的结构物震害加重;(3)对于无地形影响的厚层黄土地区,当黄土厚度在20~100 m时,随厚度的增加,反应谱下降段谱值增大1.1~1.4倍,特征周期放大1.1~1.25倍。     

DISTRIBUTION CHARACTERISTICS OF THE AD 1556 HUAXIAN EARTHQUAKE TRIGGERED DISASTERS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS

A complete understanding to the disasters triggered by giant earthquakes is not only crucial to effectively evaluating the reliability of existing earthquake magnitude, but also supporting the seismic hazard assessment. The great historical earthquake with estimated magnitude of M8.5 in Huaxian County on the 23^rd January 1556, which caused a death toll of more than 830 000, is the most serious earthquake on the global record. But for a long time, the knowledge about the hazards of this earthquake has been limited to areas along the causative Huashan piedmont fault(HSPF) and within the Weihe Basin. In this paper, we made a study on earthquake triggered landslides of the 1556 event along but not limited to the HSPF. Using the high-resolution satellite imagery of Google Earth for earthquake-triggered landslide interpretation, we obtained two dense loess landslides areas generated by the 1556 earthquake, which are located at the east end and west end of the HSPF. The number of the interpreted landslides is 1 515 in the west area(WA), which is near to the macro-epicentre, and 2 049 in the east area(EA), respectively. Based on the empirical relationship between the landslide volume and area, we get the estimated landslide volume of 2.85~6.40km³ of WA and EA, which is equivalent or bigger than the value of ~2.8km³ caused by Wenchuan earthquake of M_W7.9 on 12^th May 2008. These earthquake triggered landslides are the main cause for the death of inhabitants living in houses or loess house caves located outside of the basin, such as Weinan, Lintong, Lantian(affected by WA) and Lingbao(affected by EA). Our results can help deeply understand the distribution characteristics of coseismic disaster of the 1556 Huaxian earthquake to the south of Weihe Basin, and also provide important reference for the modification of the isoseismals.     

剪切波速和含水率双指标评价黄土震陷

为了研究地震荷载作用下黄土场地的震陷预测问题,以兰州黄土为研究对象来分析剪切波速和含水率与震陷系数的关系,并分别得出拟合函数关系。通过分析剪切波速和含水率在震陷过程中的内在联系,建立剪切波速和含水率双指标预测黄土震陷系数的方法,并依据该方法预测永登地震区黄土场地震陷量。研究结果表明:在一定的剪切波速区间内,震陷系数随着含水率的增加而增大;在一定的含水率区间内,震陷系数随着剪切波速的增加而减小。同时提出剪切波速可以反映黄土不因外部条件而变化的潜在震陷能力为绝对震陷能力的概念,相应的震陷系数称为绝对震陷系数,含水率影响潜在震陷能力的释放。通过震害实例计算验证剪切波速和含水率双指标预测方法的可行性。     

西北黄土地区地震作用下地铁车站动力响应分析

以甘肃兰州地铁一号线某地铁车站为工程背景,基于ADINA分析软件32CPU有限元显式计算平台,建立地基土与车站结构相互作用的非线性地震响应计算模型。数值分析在El-Centro、Kobe和兰州波的多遇地震条件下其车站及地基土的动力响应差异。结果表明:车站结构振型与周围地基土振型基本一致;车站底板、中板及顶板的加速度时程曲线形状基本相同;中柱和侧墙均随着埋深的增加其水平位移减小;车站周围的地表土体均发生了不同程度的沉降,其距车站7.5m范围的沉降尤为显著,致使周围建筑物会遭受到一定程度的损坏。     

1920年海原地震滑坡密集区的地震动场地效应研究

地震动作为引起地震灾害的原动力,常常通过造成建筑物倒塌、山体滑坡等形式引起大量人员伤亡和财产损失。1920年海原8½级地震,在震中距80 km远的西吉—静宁交界的黄土丘陵区引发了大量的山体滑坡,并造成重大人员伤亡和财产损失。在分析海原地震高烈度区滑坡分布特征的基础上,通过场地调查和数值计算等方法,研究典型滑坡密集场地的地质条件及地震反应特征。研究表明起伏地形和黄土厚度不均等因素造成丘陵山体两侧地震反应的差异,从而导致地震滑坡在斜坡土体较厚的一侧成群连片发育。海原地震造成的滑坡密集区的地形地貌、岩土性质、土层结构等条件决定了该地区地震动随局部场地条件变化非常迅速,地层场地效应和地形场地效应联合作用加剧了斜坡地表的地震动放大作用,增加了触发地震滑坡的动力。     

地震黄土滑坡滑距预测的BP神经网络模型

地震滑坡的滑距与重力滑坡的滑距有着显著的不同,科学预测地震发生时黄土地区滑坡的滑动距离是合理评估黄土地区滑坡风险和减轻滑坡灾害的有效方式之一。基于海原特大地震诱发黄土滑坡的400组野外调查数据,通过引入BP神经网络算法,论证了BP神经网络模型用于预测黄土地震滑坡滑距的适宜性和可行性;建立了地震诱发黄土滑坡滑距的BP神经网络预测模型,并通过67组数据进行了验证。BP神经网络算法和传统多元线性回归、多元非线性回归结果的对比显示,BP神经网络的预测更接近真实情况,具有较为理想的预测效果,可以用于黄土地震滑坡滑距的预测,并为圈定较为可靠的致灾范围提供依据。     

基于Logistic回归模型的黄土斜坡地震稳定性快速评判方法

黄土地震滑坡是陇西地区黄土丘陵地区的主要地质灾害之一,快速评价黄土斜坡的地震稳定性是陇西地区工程建设规划选址以及地震应急救援的需求。在野外调查及遥感解译获取坡高H、坡角α及估计烈度值I的基础上,运用逻辑回归分析方法,拟合得到研究区黄土斜坡地震稳定性的快速评价经验公式,经回判、判别校验及实例判别应用证明,该经验公式适用于快速评估陇西地区内黄土斜坡的地震稳定性。该文提出的方法对黄土地区城市建设规划和地震应急救援有重要的应用价值。     

不同制样方法对木质素改良黄土力学特性影响

利用加水湿拌和泥浆搅拌2种方法对木质素改良黄土试样先进行均匀混合,后利用静压法在50mm×100mm圆柱形模具中两端压实制备试样,基于三轴仪对不同制样方法下改良土试样进行无侧限抗压强度试验和固结不排水三轴试验。试验结果表明:泥浆制样法获得改良土试样无侧限抗压强度值和固结不排水剪切强度值均高于加水湿拌法获得改良土试样强度值。结合扫描电镜试验对不同制样方法下改良土试样细观结构进行分析,发现对于木质素改良土,泥浆搅拌法获得的试样中木质素与黄土颗粒形成了新的胶结物和团聚物;而加水湿拌法获得试样中,木质素在土颗粒中仅起到加筋作用,未出现新的胶结物。该结果从微结构角度揭示了2种制样法制备试样的本质差异。     

粉煤灰改良饱和黄土动力特性研究

以资源循环再利用与提高饱和黄土地基抗震性能为目的,通过对不同掺量粉煤灰改良饱和黄土进行动弹性模量-阻尼比试验,研究了动荷载作用下粉煤灰掺量对饱和改良黄土动骨干曲线的影响,同时对不同掺量粉煤灰改良饱和黄土初始动弹性模量、最大动应力幅值、动弹性模量与阻尼比进行了对比研究。研究结果表明:饱和压实素土与不同掺量粉煤灰改良饱和黄土动骨干曲线均可用双曲线模型进行描述,模型参数受粉煤灰掺量影响较大;粉煤灰的掺入可有效改善饱和黄土地基抗震性能,随粉煤灰掺量增加,不同掺量饱和改良黄土动弹性模量与阻尼比分别总体呈增大与减小趋势;考虑粉煤灰改良饱和黄土抗震性能与经济成本,提出了饱和改良黄土最佳粉煤灰掺量为20%~25%;并基于回归分析,给出了饱和改良黄土动弹性模量衰减经验公式与阻尼比增长经验公式及其拟合参数。