Rheological and kinematical responses to flow of two-phase rocks

Numerical simulations have been performed to investigate the strain-dependent behaviour of rheological and kinematical responses to flow of two-phase rocks using the commercial finite-difference program FLAC2D. It was assumed that the two phases have Maxwell rheology. Plane strain and velocity boundary condition, which produces a simple shear deformation, were also assumed. Two types of geometries were considered: strong phase supported (SPS) and weak phase supported (WPS). We calculated strain-dependent variations of effective viscosity and partitioning of strain rate, vorticity and kinematic vorticity number during deformation in both SPS and WPS structure models.The results show that the strain-dependent behaviour is largely influenced by the geometry of the composite. SPS models show both strain hardening and strain softening during the simulations, with strain hardening preceding strain softening. A critical shear strain is necessary to begin the strain softening behaviour. Strain hardening and strain softening are accompanied by a reduction and an increase of the partition of strain rate into the weak phase, respectively. On the other hand, WPS models show only weak strain hardening and strain softening, being the strain-dependent behaviour close to a steady state flow. In addition, the following results are obtained on vorticity and kinematic vorticity number; (1) in both SPS and WPS models the partition of vorticity into weak phase increases with progressive shear strain, i.e. the strong phase becomes less rotational, (2) in SPS models weak inclusions changes from sub-simple shear to super-simple shear with progressive strain, whereas the strong matrix changes from super-simple shear to sub-simple shear, (3) in WPS models the strong inclusions with high viscosity contrasts are less rotational but can be in super-simple shear condition to high strains.The observed strain-dependent behaviours have been compared with previous proposed analytical models. The degree of agreement is variable. Balshin and Ryshkewitch–Duckworth models are only applicable to SPS models. Ji-generalized mixture rule model is applicable to both models.The results suggest that polyphase rocks with SPS structure during ductile shear deformation respond as strain softening materials, after an initial strain hardening stage that may drive to the strain localization into the material.     

Differencing Reveals Hidden Changes in Baseline Length Time-series

In order to make successful earthquake predictions, detection and monitoring of baseline changes are important for investigating their origins, including precursory crustal deformations in tectonically active areas. In this study, differencing two baselines that run approximately parallel to each other and normal to the expected crustal deformations, and that share a station is proposed for analysis. Differencing reduces common systematic baseline errors, thereby enabling detection of subtle transient systematic changes in the baseline time-series that are otherwise buried in the measurement noise. Mean shift analysis, a well-known statistical technique to determine hether the mean of a stochastic process has shifted using cumulative sum charts, can then be used to locate the change points in the time-series. The application of this method to the differences of concurrently observed very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) and global positioning system (GPS) baselines in the Japanese Keystone project, where periodic and persistent baseline changes are removed, revealed transient variations in the baseline lengths several months prior to the seismic activity in the Izu Islands that started on June 26, 2000. Reproduction of the results using GPS and VLBI, two alternative baseline measurement techniques, validated the accuracy of the proposed approach for detecting previously hidden transient changes in the baseline lengths.     

电阻应变式传感器及其在高应变桩基动测中的应用

论述了电阻应变式传感器的工作原理及在高应变桩基动测中的应用，并就消除非线性测量误差和温度补偿问题做了具体地分析。     

单项形变,应变资料信息的提取方法

介绍了４种单项形变，应变资料信息提取方法，即多点组信息法，信息标准化方法，畸形参数法和信息丛集度法，按定义，μ值亦可归属多点相法，故对μ值法亦作介绍，这些方法提取出了新的信息，具有不同的新特点和应用范围，在实际应用中均初步取得了较好的效果。     

弹性地球负荷潮汐应变的理论及计算

本文概述了弹性地球负荷潮汐应变的理论,研究了计算负荷勒甫数的递推算法,并对处理褶积积分的基本方法及过程作了讨论,给出了有关的工作公式。     

用云南下关测点的水压致裂结果分析地形起伏对应力测值的影响

本文以云南下关黄草坝的水压致裂应力测量结果为例,讨论了地形起伏对云南区应力测值的影响。结果表明,地形起伏对应力测值的绝对影响随深度的增加衰减缓慢,相对影响急剧减小。100米以内深度的应力测量,地形影响可能给测值带来10%以上的误差。云南区的水压致裂应力测量深达500米,是可以排除掉地形起伏的影响的。     

山东地区地震活动水平统计预测

本文以山东三个分区为例，以y=a bx线性统计建模，进行逐年和分月地震活动水平拟合分析，给出了三个分区地震年、月应变能释放水平的经验关系，依此可以对相应区域的地震活动水平进行统计预测。使用山东地区地震资料进行内符和外推检验，结果表明这种方法不但简单，效果也较好，可以用于日常和年度及分月地震水平预测估计。     

细观非均匀性对岩石破裂过程和微震序列类型影响的数值试验研究

运用岩石破裂过程分析RFPA2D系统，研究了岩石介质细观非均匀性对宏观力学行为的影响和微震序列特征. 通过对不同均质度系数m=1.1，1.5，2，3，5的5个样本进行破裂过程的模拟，发现均质度不同会产生不同地震序列类型，主要有：前震-主震-余震型、主震型和震群型. 此外，对5种不同均质度系数的岩石样本破裂过程的模拟表明，岩石介质的非均匀性不仅对岩样宏观强度和宏观变形非线性行为有显著的影响，而且也显著地影响试样破裂模式. 随着均质度系数的提高，主破裂呈现脆断模式. 同时介质的细观结构随机性，也对试样宏观破裂模式产生重要影响.     

Quartz microstructures developed during non-steady state plastic flow at rapidly decaying stress and strain rate

Synseismic loading to very high stresses (>0.5 GPa) and subsequent creep during stress relaxation in the uppermost plastosphere at temperatures of ca. 300–350 °C, near the lower tip of an inferred once seismically active crustal scale fault, was proposed based on peculiar microstructures identified in rocks exposed over >100 km² in the Sesia Zone, European Western Alps. Here we discuss the conspicuous and highly heterogeneous microstructural record of quartz in disseminated small-scale shear zones. Sub-basal deformation lamellae and arrays of elongate subgrains on the TEM-scale indicate an early stage of glide-controlled deformation at high stresses. Distributed brittle failure is indicated by healed microcracks. Very fine-grained recrystallised aggregates with a pronounced crystallographic preferred orientation reflect intense plastic flow by dislocation creep. Locally, a fine-grained foam microstructure indicates a final stage of static grain growth at low differential stress. For the previously inferred peak stresses of about 0.5 GPa and given temperatures, initial strain rates on the order of 10⁻¹⁰ s⁻¹ are predicted by available flow laws for dislocation creep of quartz. We emphasise the importance of short-term non-steady state deformation in the uppermost plastosphere underlying seismically active upper crust. The related heterogeneous record of quartz is governed by the local stress history at constant temperature.     

Dynamic causes for the opening of the Baikal Rift Zone: a numerical modelling approach

Previous dynamic models of the Baikal Rift Zone (BRZ) are mostly two-dimensional on vertical plane. In this study, a numerical model of neotectonics in the region on map view was constructed using the adapted PLATES program. The present work is an attempt to test different mechanisms for opening Baikal Rift by comparing the modelled and observed stress and strain rate fields. The following rifting scenarios were tested: (1) pure northwest–southeast extension, (2) pure northeast–southwest compression, (3) oblique rift opening and (4) combined northwest–southeast extension and northeast–southwest compression. The models are calibrated using geologically and GPS-derived strain rates and stress-tensor determinations from fault-slip data and earthquake focal mechanisms. The most successful model requires a combination of NE–SW compression and orthogonal extension. The model results indicate that the present extensional regime in BRZ can be explained by combining the India plate indentation northward into Eurasia, east–west convergence between the North America and Eurasia plates and southeastward extrusion of the Amur plate in northeastern Asia. Predicted fault-slip rates for the best-fit model are consistent with the observed Holocene fault-slip rates in the Lake Baikal region. The generally accepted rotation of the Amur and Mongolia microplates are used as independent constraints for the choice of the best-fit model. These data correlate well with the predicted direction of rotation in our best model.