Material stability analysis of rock joints

For prediction of rockfalls, the failure of rock joints is studied. Considering these failures as constitutive instabilities, a second‐order work criterion is used because it explains all divergence instabilities (flutter instabilities are excluded). The bifurcation domain and the loading directions of instabilities, which fulfill the criterion, are determined for any piecewise linear constitutive relation. The instability of rock joints appears to be ruled by coupling features of the behavior (e.g., dilatancy). Depending on the loading parameters, instabilities can lead to failure, even before the plastic limit criterion. Results for two given constitutive relations illustrate the approach. Some given loading paths are especially considered. Constant volume (undrained) shear and τ‐constant paths are stable or not depending on the link between the deviatoric stress and strain along undrained paths, as found for soils. Some unstable loading paths are illustrated. Along these paths, failure before the plastic limit criterion is possible. The corresponding failure rules are determined. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

气候自然变异在气候变化对水资源影响 评价中的贡献分析——Ⅱ.未来期应用分析

基于模型率定期(基准期)气候自然变异的模拟方法及气候自然变异引起的径流变化的可能情况分析,此部分研究未来期(2021~2051年,2061~2091年)气候变化下径流变化情况及气候自然变异的影响。基于CSIRO、NCAR、MPI三种气候模式及A1B、A2、B1三种排放方式共7种未来气候情景,应用和基准期相同的水文模型和研究流域,引入基准期模型率定出的参数,考虑气候自然变异的影响,对未来气候变化对水资源的影响进行分析。为消除气候模式本身的系统误差,采用δ差值方法得到各模式各排放情景下的未来气候情景。该项研究主要说明如何在气候变化的影响评价中将气候自然变异的贡献分离出来,从而实现更客观的气候变化的影响评价。研究结果表明,气候变异的影响在整个气候变化进程中的贡献随时间的推移将有所不同。未来2021~2051年期间,气候自然变异的影响相对较大;未来2061~2091年期间,由温室气体引起的气候变化的影响占主导。     

山区过渡性地理空间人文自然交互性识别与分异解析

山区因其人文自然交互过程具有显著的地域性、时空分异性与不确定性,成为典型的过渡性地理空间,其类型量化识别与分异特征的解析可为山区乡村振兴背景下国土空间高质量发展提供决策依据。本文基于地理不确定性的概念构建时空变率指数,识别出中国山区过渡性地理空间分布与分区,并运用地理探测器解析其地理时空变率的驱动力谱。结果发现：中国山区过渡性地理空间总面积为238.32×10⁴ km²（约占中国陆表面积的1/4）,其地理时空变率从第一阶梯到第三阶梯呈递减趋势;全国山区过渡性地理空间可分为12个分区,其中昆仑—祁连山分区面积最大;人文驱动因子对人口与土地利用的时空变率解析力最强,基础地形因子对植被覆盖时空变率与地理时空变率指数的解析力最为显著,各因子中海拔与夜间灯光的解析驱动力最强。整体而言,人文要素的时空动态均对东南山区过渡性地理空间具有显著的塑造性,而西北山区过渡性地理空间主要受到自然要素的时间变化和人文要素的空间变化所驱动。本文为山区过渡性地理空间的不确定性、多样性与人地关系地域性的定量研究提供了新的见解与启示。     

两种不确定性来源对干旱指数SPEI及干旱评估的影响

全球气候变暖背景下,干旱问题更加频繁、持久,影响范围也逐步扩大。采用干旱指数进行干旱评估与研究时,受多种因素影响,干旱评估结果往往存在一定的不确定性。以黑河流域为研究区,分析概率分布模型和参数估计误差这两种不确定性来源对标准化降水蒸散指数（Standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index,SPEI）和干旱特征变量（干旱强度、干旱峰值和干旱历时）的影响。结果表明：这两种来源均会对SPEI和干旱特征变量产生影响,且SPEI越极端,其影响越大,二者对于极端和严重干旱的影响程度远大于对轻度和中度干旱的影响;对于极端和严重干旱,概率分布模型导致的干旱强度和干旱峰值的不确定性更大,参数估计误差导致的干旱历时的不确定性更大。研究结果可为干旱的准确评估提供支撑,在防旱减灾工作中为制定更加准确有效的抗旱决策提供理论支持,以避免可能造成的减灾能力不足或抗旱资源的浪费。     

Introducing a Comprehensive Data Reduction and Uncertainty Propagation Algorithm for U‐Th Geochronometry with Extraction Chromatography and Isotope Dilution MC‐ICP‐MS

We present an open‐source algorithm in Mathematica application (Wolfram Research) with a transparent data reduction and Monte Carlo simulation of systematic and random uncertainties for U‐Th geochronometry by multi‐collector ICP‐MS. Uranium and thorium were quantitatively separated from matrix elements through a single U/TEVA extraction chromatography step. A rigorous calibrator‐sample bracketing routine was adopted using CRM‐112A and IRMM‐035 standard solutions, doped with an IRMM‐3636a ²³³U/²³⁶U ‘double‐spike’ to account for instrumental mass bias and deviations of measured isotope ratios from certified values. The mean of ²³⁴U/²³⁸U and ²³⁰Th/²³²Th in the standard solutions varied within 0.42 and 0.25‰ (permil) of certified ratios, respectively, and were consistent with literature values within uncertainties. Based on multiple dissolutions with lithium metaborate flux fusion, U and Th concentrations in USGS BCR‐2 CRM were updated to 1739 ± 2 and 5987 ± 50 ng g^?1 (95% CI), respectively. The measurement reproducibility of our analytical technique was evaluated by analysing six aliquots of an in‐house reference material, prepared by homogenising a piece of speleothem (CC3A) from Cathedral Cave, Utah, which returned a mean age of 21483 ± 63 years (95% CI, 2.9‰). Replicate analysis of ten samples from CC3A was consistent with ages previously measured at the University of Minnesota by single‐collector ICP‐MS within uncertainties.     

高密度电阻率法中二阶差分相路断面数据处理技术

介绍了二阶差分相路断面的基本思路;在应用高密度电阻率法勘察广西某尾砂库隐伏岩溶、地下河项目中,引进二阶差分相路断面进行数据解释,获得了更丰富的地质信息,取得较好的地质效果.     

基于贝叶斯理论的水文不确定性分析研究进展

水文过程受众多自然和人为因素影响,决定了其变化的极端复杂性,表现为确定性的动态规律与不确定性的统计规律共存。水文不确定性分析的理论和方法在认识水文规律中发挥着重要作用,其中贝叶斯作为一种主要理论方法在水文水资源相关问题的研究中得到了较广泛的应用。本文评述了贝叶斯理论在水文频率分析、水文预报、确定性和不确定性方法耦合等研究中的进展,对基于贝叶斯理论的水文不确定性重点研究内容进行了展望。     

气候模式应用中的不确定性分析

为了分析和评价气候变化对水文水资源的影响,根据中国东部地区1956～2000年实测年降水量系列数据,采用多年均值、系列趋势变化指标和反映系列可持续特性的Hurst系数等3项指标,对CGCMA3、MPI-ECHAM5和平均GCM等3种气候模式模拟的同期年降水系列数据进行了检验。检验结果表明,3种气候模式模拟结果与实测值之间,以及不同模式模拟结果之间,不仅定量方面差异很大,而且在定性方面甚至出现相悖的结果,不确定性十分显著。同样,根据3种气候模式预测的未来2001～2050年年降水量和季平均气温推得的未来年径流量系列数据,其多年均值、系列趋势变化指标和干旱年年径流量多项指标也存在明显的不确定性。据此对气候模式及其应用提出了相应的建议。     

Simulating the value of El Niño forecasts for the Panama Canal

The Panama Canal relies on rain-fed streamflow into Gatun Lake, the canal’s primary storage facility, for operations—principally ship passage and hydropower generation. Precipitation in much of Panama has a strong negative relationship with eastern tropical Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) and this relationship is reflected in Gatun Lake inflows. For example, the correlation coefficient between wet season (July–December) inflow and NINO3 SST is −0.53 over the period 1914–1997. Operational capabilities to predict tropical Pacific SSTs have been demonstrated by several forecast systems during the past decade, and (as we show) such SST forecasts can be used to reduce the uncertainty of estimates of future inflows (compared with climatological expectations). Because substantial reductions in lake inflow negatively impact canal operations, we wondered whether these forecasts of future inflows, coupled with a method for translating that information into effective operational policy, might result in more efficient canal management. A combined simulation/optimization/assessment “virtual” canal system was implemented and exercised using operational El Niño forecasts over the period 1981–1998. The results show the following main points:

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At current demand levels, the canal system is relatively robust (insensitive to flow forecasts) unless flows are substantially reduced (i.e., during El Niño episodes) or forecasts are extremely accurate.     

多粒度的GIS数据不确定性粗集表达

粗集是一种处理地理信息不确定性和不精确性的新型数学工具,在揭示和表达多层次(或粒度)的空间知识方面具有较大优势。为此,从空间信息观测或表达的粒度角度来探讨空间数据所蕴含的不确定性。在此基础上,运用粗集理论中的一些基本概念和方法来系统地描述和表达空间目标位置数据、属性数据以及空间关系数据的不确定性,旨在建立一种多粒度的不确定性分析和表达方法。