Discrete modeling of strain accumulation in granular soils under low amplitude cyclic loading

An advanced understanding of the strain accumulation phenomenon in granular soils subjected to low amplitude cyclic loading with relatively high frequency is needed to enhance the ability to predict the settlement of granular soils induced by vibrations. In the current study, the discrete element method is used to study this phenomenon. A loose and a medium dense sample composed of a relatively large number of spheres are considered. A series of stress controlled cyclic triaxial tests with different excitation amplitudes and frequencies is performed on these samples at different static stress states. The response of these samples at the macroscopic and microscopic scales is analyzed. The sample density, the cyclic stress amplitude and the static stress state importantly affect strain accumulation. However, the cyclic excitation frequency has a small effect on strain accumulation. At the microscopic scale, frictional sliding occurring at a few contacts continuously dissipates energy and the fraction of these contacts varies periodically during cyclic loading. The coordination number of these samples increases slightly as strain accumulates. However, the anisotropy remains almost constant during low amplitude cyclic excitation. A qualitatively good agreement between numerical and experimental results is found.     

臭氧、保鲜剂及温度对哈密瓜呼吸强度及贮藏效果的影响

本文研究了不同温度、不同浓度臭氧溶液和保鲜剂溶液处理对哈密瓜呼吸强度及贮藏效果的影响。实验结果表明。低温有利降低了哈密瓜的呼吸强度，其中4℃是较佳的贮藏温度，2℃贮温会使哈密瓜发生冷害。500mg／L、750mg／L、1000mg／L浓度的伊麦唑与伊源果蜡复合使用能够降低哈密瓜的呼吸强度，但三个处理组之间对瓜呼吸强度影响的差异不明显。     

璜山金矿找矿模式及应用

诸暨璜山金矿是除治岭头以外浙江省第二金矿,它的找矿模式为"三高两低一复合"的找矿模式,即高金晕、高极化率、高磁场跳跃、低电阻率、低电位和北东断裂与北东东断裂复合处是成矿最有利部位.在其附近仍有类似成矿部位,有望扩大远景.     

Probing the history of the Mathematician paleoplate using surface waves

This paper investigates the shear velocity structure under the northern East Pacific Rise at the latitude range of 9–18°N, using intermediate-period Rayleigh and Love waves. The selected ocean-bottom seismic records provide source–receiver paths that ideally constrain the lithospheric mantle structure beneath the southern Rivera plate and the Mathematician paleoplate. The Rayleigh wave data infer a relatively thin ( 30 km) lithosphere under the eastern side of the present-day East Pacific Rise. The associated shear velocities are consistent with existing models of oceanic mantle beneath this region, and the estimated plate age of 2–3 million years agrees with results from magnetic dating. The west of the rise axis is characterized by a thicker and faster lithosphere than the eastern flank, and such structural differences suggest the presence of a relatively old Mathematician paleoplate. The discontinuous change in mantle structure across the East Pacific Rise spreading center are observed in both isotropic and anisotropic velocities. The young oceanic lithosphere east of the rise axis shows strong polarization anisotropy, where the dominant orientation of crystallographic axes roughly parallels the spreading direction. However, the western flank of the rise axis is approximately isotropic, and the lack of anisotropy suggests complex deformation mechanisms associated with earlier episodes of ridge segmentation, propagation and dual-spreading on and around the Mathematician paleoplate.     

2～18 GHz超宽带低噪声放大器芯片研制

低噪声放大器在射电天文望远镜接收机中是一个重要的前端组件,其性能对接收机的灵敏度和噪声有至关重要的影响。采用OMMIC公司70 nm GaAs mHEMT工艺研究和设计了一款工作频率为2~18 GHz的超宽带单片微波集成低噪声放大器芯片,芯片面积为2 mm×1 mm。放大器电路采用三级级联放大、双电源供电拓扑结构,常温在片测试结果显示,全频带增益大于28 dB,噪声温度平均值为93 K,直流功耗150 mW,无条件稳定。该放大器芯片覆盖了射电天文S,C,X,Ku 4个传统观测波段,适用于厘米波段超宽带接收前端和毫米波段超宽带中频放大模块。     

Truncation of the distribution of ground-motion residuals

Recent studies to assess very long-term seismic hazard in the USA and in Europe have highlighted the importance of the upper tail of the ground-motion distribution at the very low annual frequencies of exceedance required by these projects. In particular, the use of an unbounded lognormal distribution to represent the aleatory variability of ground motions leads to very high and potentially unphysical estimates of the expected level of shaking. Current practice in seismic hazard analysis consists of truncating the ground-motion distribution at a fixed number (ε _max) of standard deviations (σ). However, there is a general lack of consensus regarding the truncation level to adopt. This paper investigates whether a physical basis for choosing ε _max can be found, by examining records with large positive residuals from the dataset used to derive one of the ground-motion models of the Next Generation Attenuation (NGA) project. In particular, interpretations of the selected records in terms of causative physical mechanisms are reviewed. This leads to the conclusion that even in well-documented cases, it is not possible to establish a robust correlation between specific physical mechanisms and large values of the residuals, and thus obtain direct physical constraints on ε _max. Alternative approaches based on absolute levels of ground motion and numerical simulations are discussed. However, the choice of ε _max is likely to remain a matter of judgment for the foreseeable future, in view of the large epistemic uncertainties associated with these alternatives. Additional issues arise from the coupling between ε _max and σ, which causes the truncation level in terms of absolute ground motion to be dependent on the predictive equation used. Furthermore, the absolute truncation level implied by ε _max will also be affected if σ is reduced significantly. These factors contribute to rendering a truncation scheme based on a single ε _max value impractical.     

用瑞利面波资料反演中国大陆东部地壳上地幔横波速度的三维构造

利用中国大陆东部21个台站的43条面波大圆路径上瑞利面波记录的双台资料,计算出双台间地震面波相速度频散,采用Tarantola概率反演的方法求得相速度频散曲线的分布,并由各处相速度频散曲线反演得到地壳上地幔的三维横波波速图像,进而得到中国东部地壳上地幔的S波速度结构.结果表明:我国大陆东部地壳厚度总体上呈东薄西厚的趋势,以105°E为界向西地壳厚度逐渐加深到55 km以上,其中有一个北东向的h形地壳厚度的坡度带.豫西及晋南地区为相对薄地壳的地区.大别山地区和泰山附近地区地壳变厚,但秦岭地区地壳不变厚.上地幔低速层上界面的深度在华北地区较浅,为80-90km,在鄂尔多斯、四川东部以及黔湘地区为120-130km.扬子地块东部及华南褶皱系中、东部上地幔顶部速度偏低使低速层的速度反差不明显.滇黔褶皱系的西部在200 km以内的上地幔中未出现低速层.     

云南景谷岔河铜矿控矿因素

芒亨河断裂的次级断裂是主要控矿构造,含矿围岩为上三叠统小定西组(T3xd)富钠质安山岩、玄武岩。受构造、层位、碎屑粒度的制约。     

Smoothing and re-roughening processes: The geometric evolution of a single fault zone

The geometry of a fault zone exerts a major control on earthquake rupture processes and source parameters. Observations previously compiled from multiple faults suggest that fault surface shape evolves with displacement, but the specific processes driving the evolution of fault geometry within a single fault zone are not well understood. Here, we characterize the deformation history and geometry of an extraordinarily well-exposed fault using maps of cross-sectional exposures constructed with the Structure from Motion photogrammetric method. The La Quinta Fault, located in southern California, experienced at least three phases of deformation. Multiple layers of ultracataclasite formed during the most recent phase. Crosscutting relations between the layers define the evolution of the structures and demonstrate that new layers formed successively during the deformation history. Wear processes such as grain plucking from one layer into a younger layer and truncation of asperities at layer edges indicate that the layers were slip zones and the contacts between them slip surfaces. Slip surfaces that were not reactivated or modified after they were abandoned exhibit self-affine geometry, preserving the fault roughness from different stages of faulting. Roughness varies little between surfaces, except the last slip zone to form in the fault, which is the smoothest. This layer contains a distinct mineral assemblage, indicating that the composition of the fault rock exerts a control on roughness. In contrast, the similar roughness of the older slip zones, which have comparable mineralogy but clearly crosscut one another, suggests that as the fault matured the roughness of the active slip surface stayed approximately constant. Wear processes affected these layers, so for roughness to stay constant the roughening and smoothing effects of fault slip must have been approximately balanced. These observations suggest fault surface evolution occurs by nucleation of new surfaces and wear by competing smoothing and re-roughening processes.     

济宁市翟村铁矿小体重值与磁性铁品位的回归分析

利用济宁市翟村铁矿勘查过程中取得的体重测试值与磁性铁品位数据进行了回归分析,得出回归方程为y=2.74+0.026x,经显著性、精度检验并结合实际实践,证明该一元回归方程具有显著性,预测精度较高。可以用该方程预测翟村铁矿区小体重值。