基于矩张量的深埋隧洞岩爆机制分析

以锦屏二级水电站微震监测数据为基础,将矩张量引入到深埋隧洞岩爆机制分析研究中。对分析过程中遇到的2个关键问题提出了针对性的建议：① 隧洞工程为线性工程,传感器布置空间有限,难以形成良性传感器阵列,矩张量分析结果的可靠性受到很大的影响,为此,提出了数值计算过程中的坐标系空间旋转法。该方法按最优路径旋转隧道坐标系,使对于同一个事件的每个传感器,源-传感器射线到新坐标系的3个方向余弦差值在10倍数值范围以内,在数值计算过程中,可以得到较理想的矩张量结果。②针对Ohtsu使用矩张量分解判断岩石破裂类型的方法中,提出的各分量比重计算公式,仅适用于各分量均为受拉的情况。考虑快速掘进条件下隧洞工程受力方向的不确定性,扩展其分量比重计算公式到更一般适用状态。在此基础上,建立了一套完整的岩爆孕育过程矩张量分析方法。利用该方法对锦屏二级水电站典型岩爆微震数据进行分析,结果表明,该方法可以较好地解释岩爆孕育过程岩石破裂演化机制。     

人工防雹实用催化方法数值研究

目前,我国普遍采用高炮和火箭两种催化工具进行人工防雹,但就如何提高这两种作业工具的有效性还缺乏系统的研究.作者利用三维冰雹云数值催化模式,选取1999年7月18日陕西省旬邑地区的冰雹云作为试验个例,分别就高炮催化不同的作业时间、催化剂量、作业部位、催化方式等,以及对火箭催化所携带的高效AgI焰剂的成核率与火箭在作业过程中以不同的发射距离、发射仰角和当火箭方位角发生偏离后对地面防雹效果的影响进行数值模拟,以期为提高防雹效果提供一些技术参考.     

Numerical simulation of diffusion‐controlled nucleation and growth of porphyroblasts

This article presents the conceptual basis for a new numerical model of diffusion‐controlled nucleation and growth of porphyroblasts, describes its implementation, and illustrates the range of crystallization behaviours encompassed by it. The model differs from previous efforts principally in its ability to track explicitly the evolution in time and space of the chemical affinity for reaction in the intergranular medium, which provides a more accurate characterization of nucleation suppression in the vicinity of pre‐existing crystals and of growth suppression due to competition for nutrients among neighbouring crystals. Critical new features of these numerical simulations include: maintenance of local equilibrium for fluid in contact with reactants or products; persistence of reactants until they are eliminated by dissolution due to reaction progress and local diffusive flux; nucleation rates that vary as the local reaction affinity evolves; complex initial distributions of reactants if desired; and the flexibility to encompass any porphyroblast‐forming reaction for which changes in free energy as a function of time and temperature are specified. Model results reveal that radial growth rates remain proportional to the square‐root of time in diffusion systems buffered by persistent reactants; they document the interchangeable effects of diffusivity, porosity, and solubility on material fluxes and thus growth rates; and they illustrate the offsetting textural effects of rates of diffusion, nucleation, and heating. The initial distribution of reactants is found to exert a first‐order effect on crystal size distributions, confirming their limited utility for diagnosing crystallization mechanisms. These numerical simulations yield novel and rigorous confirmation of the textural effects of nucleation‐site saturation and variation in interconnected porosity, and reproduce with high fidelity much of the textural and chemical information gathered from natural specimens.     

A dynamic model for fault nucleation and propagation in a mechanically layered section

When a mechanically layered section of rock is subject to a horizontal strain, faults often nucleate preferentially in one or more layers before propagating through the rest of the section. The result is a high density of small, low-throw faults within these layers, and a much smaller number of large, through-cutting faults which nevertheless accommodate most of the strain due to their much larger displacement. A dynamic model of fault nucleation and propagation has been created by combining analytical and finite element techniques to calculate the energy balance of these propagating faults. This model shows that: 1) faults may nucleate in either mechanically weak layers, or in stiff layers with a high differential stress; 2) fault propagation may be halted either by strong layers (in which the sliding friction coefficient is high), or by layers which deform by flow and thus have low differential stress. This model can predict quantitatively the horizontal strain required for faults to nucleate, and to propagate across mechanical layer boundaries. The model is able to explain the complex pattern of fault nucleation and propagation observed in a mechanically layered outcrop in Sinai, Egypt.     

关于“超微细菌”的争论:灰岩成因研究的重要驱动力

在高倍(＞50000x)扫描电子显微镜(SEM)、原子显微镜(AFM)或透射电子显微镜(TEM)下,那些在岩石和矿物中所见到的纳米级别的物体常常吸引了地质学家们的注意.这些物体大小在25～300 nm之间,多呈球状、棒状或卵圆状;对这些物体的成因,存在不同的看法而导致了剧烈的争论.因为这些物体与真菌中的球菌和杆菌总体相...     

The experimental investigation of micro-cracks nucleation in typical tectonics

IntroductionTheexistenceandmeasurabilityofearthquakenucleationinvariousgeologicalbackgroundareimportantbasicproblems.Generally,crowdingtogetherandzonationdistributionofmoderateandsmaIlearthquakes(orsourceofAE)arenormalphenomenon(Mei,etal,l993).However,itisnotreliabIetoidentifythecrowdingofmoderateandsmallearthquakesasforeshockofstrongearthquake.Someauthors(Yu,Li,l998,Wang,l999)studiedthemethodstofindtheprecursorinformationastojudgetheriskofstrongearthquakesfromthefiguresofspace-timeevoluti…     

Cluster Ion Reactions: Insights into Processes of Atmospheric Significance

Experimental results of ion cluster reactions withatmospherically relevant species are considered hereinto provide a unified overview of the current state ofunderstanding brought about through experimentalstudies of cluster ion reactions. This isaccomplished by first outlining the atmospheric issuesaddressed by cluster ion studies and then, summarizingthe results of numerous studies. The recent, as wellas previously published studies of cluster ionreactions, are considered in the context of gainingnew insights into the molecular details ofheterogeneous processes involving the interactions ofelectrolytes with cloud droplets, ice crystals andaerosol particles. In addition to elucidating themechanisms of these and other selected reactions andtransformations of atmospheric significance, thefindings of the uptake of acid molecules in waterclusters are shown to lead to the suggestion of a newmodel that accounts for the formation of reactioncenters involving charged sites at aqueous surfaces.     

Some comments on inclusion relationships

Abstract Evaluation of two commonly used microstructural criteria for determining the origin of inclusions, namely the existence of a host–inclusion orientation relationship and continuity between inclusions and matrix, using two specific examples of inclusions of tschermakite in actinolitic hornblende, shows that these criteria can be difficult to implement and if not applied carefully will give contradictory results. Consequently, it may be difficult to establish the origins of inclusions; petrographic studies should therefore clearly state the criteria used for interpretation of host–inclusion relationships and how these criteria were implemented.     

Microscopic calcite dendrites in cold-water tufa: implications for nucleation of micrite and cement

Dendritic calcite forms in an active cold-water tufa system in association with extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) that discontinuously coat bryophytes and cyanobacteria. Dendrites consist of 100–200 nm thick calcite fibres that form 3D lattice-like domains. In each dendrite domain, fibres have three structurally equal orientations, which correspond in disposition to radii from the centre of a calcite unit cell to the convex triple face junctions on its surface. Fibres do not form in the orientation of the c-axis. The external form of each dendrite has the shape of half of a shortened octahedron, with an upper triangular surface parallel to the substrate. Dendrite nucleation takes place on or in microbial EPS, whether microbial cells are present or not, and is probably effected by attraction of Ca²⁺ cations to negatively charged EPS, together with CO₂-degassing and concomitant pH increase of supersaturated spring water in stream splash zones. Ensuing dendrite growth is abiogenic and controlled by diffusion. Dendrite c-axes are perpendicular to the substrate, probably because the negative charge of EPS forces the orientation of Ca²⁺ and CO planes within the developing dendrite crystal to be parallel to the EPS film surface. Dendrites are eventually filled and overgrown by solid, syntaxial calcite, which gradually and completely obliterates the dendrites as more familiar calcite crystal forms develop. No trace of the dendritic nucleus remains in the rock record. Calcite crystal nucleation may take place by this mechanism in many marine and meteoric settings, given that microbial EPS is now assumed to be virtually ubiquitous in these environments. This phenomenon could contribute to the development of familiar fabrics such as marine micrite cement and fibrous calcite cement, radial ooids, peloids, ‘abiogenic’ stromatolites, sea floor precipitates, microbialites, tufa, travertine, speleothems, and some meteoric cements. It may also contribute to the substrate-normal orientation of c-axes of common cement fabrics.