Seismic resonances of spherical acoustic cavities

We study the interaction of a seismic wavefield with a spherical acoustic gas‐ or fluid‐filled cavity. The intention of this study is to clarify whether seismic resonances can be expected, a characteristic feature that may help in detecting cavities in the subsurface. This is important for many applications, in particular the detection of underground nuclear explosions, which are to be prohibited by the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. To calculate the full seismic wavefield from an incident plane wave that interacts with the cavity, we considered an analytic formulation of the problem. The wavefield interaction consists of elastic scattering and the wavefield interaction between the acoustic and elastic media. Acoustic resonant modes caused by internal reflections in the acoustic cavity show up as spectral peaks in the frequency domain. The resonant peaks coincide with the eigenfrequencies of the un‐damped system described by the particular acoustic medium bounded in a sphere with stiff walls. The filling of the cavity could thus be determined by the observation of spectral peaks from acoustic resonances. By energy transmission from the internal oscillations back into the elastic domain, the oscillations experience damping, resulting in a frequency shift and a limitation of the resonance amplitudes. In case of a gas‐filled cavity, the impedance contrast is still high, which means low damping of the internal oscillations resulting in very narrow resonances of high amplitude. In synthetic seismograms calculated in the surrounding elastic domain, the acoustic resonances of gas‐filled cavities show up as persisting oscillations. However, due to the weak acoustic–elastic coupling in this case, the amplitudes of the oscillations are very low. Due to a lower impedance contrast, a fluid‐filled cavity has a stronger acoustic–elastic coupling, which results in wide spectral peaks of lower amplitudes. In the synthetic seismograms derived in the surrounding medium of fluid‐filled cavities, acoustic resonances show up as strong but fast decaying reverberations.     

频率域声-弹耦合地震波波动方程有限差分方法

本文针对声-弹耦合介质,为尽可能的减少频率域正演模拟的计算内存,提高计算效率,在一阶非均质位移-应力波动方程的基础上,借助等效交错网格思想并充分考虑密度参数空间变化对地震波传播的影响,推导了声-弹耦合地震波波动方程.在流相介质和固相介质中分别采用非均质情况频率域二阶声压标量波、二阶纯位移控制方程,为保证流、固相介质间地震波能量的稳定传输和有效交换,提出了声-弹耦合界面转换过渡层方法,并详细阐述了过渡层与上下介质空间差分具体耦合方法.在与非均质纯位移波动方程正演结果对比分析的基础上,首先采用各向同性单层流相介质模型进行正演模拟验证了声-弹耦合方程数值模拟中过渡层策略的有效性和准确性,随后又数值模拟了地震波在声-弹耦合介质简单模型和复杂Marmousi2模型中的传播,验证了本文方法稳定性和准确性,同时该方法可以简单的推广到三维情况.     

Spatial and temporal patterns of sediment storage over 45 years in Carnation Creek,BC, a previously glaciated mountain catchment

The movement of sediment through mountain river networks remains difficult to predict, as processes beyond streamflow and particle size are responsible for the entrainment and transport of bedload sediment. In deglaciated catchments, additional complexity arises from glacial impacts on landscape organization. Research to date indicates that the quantity of sediment stored in the channel is an important component of sediment transport in systems which alternate between supply and transport limited states, but limited long-term field data exist which can capture storage-transfer dynamics over a timescale encompassing episodic supply typical of mountain streams. We use a 45-year dataset with annual and decadal-scale data on sediment storage, channel morphology, and wood loading to investigate the spatial and temporal organization of storage in Carnation Creek, a previously glaciated 11 km² catchment on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Sediment is supplied episodically to the channel, including additions from debris flows in the early 1980s just upstream of the studied channel region. Analyzing the spatial and temporal organization of sediment storage along 3.0 km of channel mainstem reveals a characteristic storage wavelength similar to the annual bedload particle travel distance. Over time, two scales of variation in storage are observed: small-scale fluctuation of 3–10 years corresponding to local erosional and depositional processes, and larger scale response over 25–35 years related to supply of sediment from hillslopes. Complex relationships between storage and sediment transfer (i.e., annual change in storage) are identified, with decadal-scale hysteresis present in storage-transfer relations in sites influenced by hillslope sediment and logjams. We propose a conceptual model linking landscape organization to temporal variability in storage and to storage–export cycles. Collectively, our results reaffirm the importance of storage to sediment transport and channel morphology, and highlight the complexity of storage–transport interactions. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Coupling Effects on Gold Mineralization of Deep and Shallow Structures in the Northwestern Jiaodong Peninsula, Eastern China

For understanding the possible deep-seated processes and geodynamic constrains on gold mineralization, comprehensive physicochemical and geochemical studies of gold mineralization have been undertaken within the paleo-lithosphere framework during the metailogenic epoch from the northwestern part of the Jiaodong Peninsula in this paper. A general image of the paleo-crust has been remained although it has been superimposed and reformed by post-metailogenic tectonic movements. The gold ore deposits occur usually in local uplifts and gradient belts featuring a turn from steep to gentle in granite-metamorphic contact zones, relative uplifts of gradient zones of the Curier isothermal interfaces, depressions of the Moho discontinuity and areas where depth contours are cut by isotherms perpendicularly. Gold mineralization and lithogenesis are characterized by high temperature, low pressure and high strength of thermal flux. The depth of mineralization ranges from 0.8 to 4.5 km. The depth of the top interface of the granitic complex in the metallogenic epoch is about 3 km. There is a low-velocity layer （LVL） at the bottom of the upper crust with a depth close to 19.5 km, which may be a detachment belt in the crust. The appearance of the LVL indicates the existence of paleo-hyperthermal fluid or relics of molten magma chambers, which reflects partial melting within the crust during the diagenetic and metallogenic epochs and the superposition effects of strike-slip shearing of the Taulu fault zone. The subsidence of the Moho is probably attributed to the coupling process of the NW-SE continental collision between North China and the Yangtze Block and the strike-slip movement of the Tanlu fault accompanied with underplating of mantle magma in the northwestern part of the Jiaodong Peninsula. The underplating of mantle magma may result in partial melting and make granite magma transfer upwards. This is favorable for the migration of metallogenic materials from deep to shallow to be enriched to form deposits. Coupling interactions between the strike-slip of the Taulu fault, the underplating of mantle magma, partial melting within the crust, and hyperthermal fluid, etc. may be the important factors controlling the gold mineralization and spatial structures in the metailogenic system.     

About possible geophysical causes of the decade fluctuations in the length of day

Fluctuations in the length of day (Δlod) can be caused by temporal variations of the inertia tensor described by the excitation function and by disturbances of the torque balance between core and mantle. Recent models of the atmospheric excitation of the variations of the lod certainly failed with respect to longer periods (e.g., at about 70 years), but seem to be responsible for the annual period, the 22 years period and for a part of the nearly 30 years period. So, another geophysical phenomenon is needed which is responsible for the remaining part of unexplained lod variations. Previous studies of the geomagnetic core-mantle coupling were re-examined using lod values from which atmospherically excited parts were removed. The remaining part of the 30 years period could be explained by core-mantle coupling. Additionally, the torque blance was realized by assuming lower values of the electrical conductivity at the bottom of the mantle. It was concluded that the consideration of geophysical processes within atmosphere and hydrosphere will be important for future refinements of the core-mantle coupling models of the decade fluctuations in the lod.     

Mantle flow beneath the Asian continent and its force to the crust

Introduction In order to understand the formation of the geological structure and its evolution of the Asian continent, it is needed to investigate the driving forces from the around continents and oceans and from its underlying mantle as well. The super parallel computer has been used to simulate the geodynamical processes in the lithosphere and mantle for a long time in many international works (Bird, 1995; Tackley, 1995). We also calculated the patterns of the global mantle convection on o…     

库水升降条件下考虑饱和渗透系数空间变异性的白水河滑坡渗流变形分析

堆积层滑坡的岩土体渗透系数具有一定的不确定性,且渗透系数是饱和-非饱和渗流分析的重要参数,开展考虑其空间变异性的库岸堆积层滑坡渗流变形分析具有重要意义。以三峡库区中的白水河滑坡为研究对象,基于地面核磁共振技术获取的岩土体渗透系数,分析滑坡体渗透系数的空间变异特征,采用半变异函数方法求得滑坡体渗透系数的竖直波动范围,在此基础上建立渗透系数的非平稳随机场模型。以非侵入式随机有限元的方式开展库水升降两种工况下不确定模型与确定模型的流固耦合模拟,分析两种模型的渗流场、位移变形特征及其差异。结果表明：相比于确定模型,不确定模型孔压改变的滞后性更为明显,且库水下降工况下整体的变形更大,若忽略滑体渗透系数的非平稳空间变异特征将会低估滑坡的实际变形。     

浅埋隧道冻结法施工地表冻胀融沉规律及冻结壁厚度优化研究

浅埋隧道对地表冻胀、融沉变形有严格要求。针对珠机城际轨道交通项目联络通道冻结壁设计改进问题,基于热?力耦合理论,利用有限差分数值计算方法对冻结法施工全过程进行模拟,通过比较研究不同厚度冻结壁模型引起的地表冻胀、融沉变形及隧道管片变形规律,实现冻结壁厚度的优化设计。研究表明：（1）该数值模型可有效模拟地表冻胀、融沉变形,利用已查明数值误差对计算结果进行折减可得到较为准确的实际变形预测值;（2）不同模型地表冻胀、融沉规律大致相同,但变形量及影响范围随冻结壁厚度减小呈递减趋势,当冻结壁厚度为2.5 m及以下时变形基本满足规程要求;（3）土体冻胀、融沉变形并非简单的互逆过程,融沉变形通常大于冻胀变形,平均超出量达40%,应特别注意;（4）冻结壁厚度越大相应产生的冻胀力越大,通过优化冻结壁厚度可有效控制隧道管片附加应力及变形的产生,保护已建隧道结构安全;（5）综合选定2.5 m为冻结壁改进厚度,成果直接应用于4#联络通道冻结法施工,经现场监测表明该优化方案有效、可行,对类似工程冻结壁厚度设计具有较好的推广应用价值。     

植入式光纤传感器在隧道结构中的边界效应研究

为探究植入式光纤传感器与隧道衬砌的应变传递的边界效应,分别从理论、试验和现场应用3个方面进行研究,并在实际工程中进行了验证。构建了光纤在混凝土衬砌中的应变传递模型,进行光纤应变传递机制分析,计算了光纤应变传递效率,并与数值计算结果对比,验证了力学计算模型的准确性。使用钢筋混凝土梁模拟隧道的混凝土衬砌,在其表面植入分布式光纤,进行了2组试验。对试验梁进行分级加载并使用BOFDA技术对光纤进行测试。试验结果表明：植入式光纤传感器存在边界效应,结构两端为光纤的低效率应变传递区,不能完全传递试验梁的应变;试验梁中部为光纤的高效率应变传递区,能够完全传递试验梁的应变。基于以上研究成果,在北京市新机场线地铁暗挖隧道CRD工法区间,采用植入式工艺在隧道衬砌内布设了分布式光纤传感器,进行了工程应用研究。监测结果表明,边界效应对工程监测结果影响很小,分布埋入式光纤布设工艺是可行的。该研究可为分布式光纤技术在地下工程结构监测中的应用提供参考。     

砂性土细颗粒起动临界水力坡降计算方法

地下水渗流作用下内部不稳定砂性土将发生潜蚀现象,潜蚀作用引起的土体渗透破坏会对土工建筑物或地基造成不良影响。考虑土体有效应力和细颗粒应力折减,建立渗流场中细颗粒受力模型,根据极限受力平衡状态得到潜蚀过程中砂性土细颗粒起动临界水力坡降计算公式,并通过DEM-CFD耦合方法以及现有试验数据进行验证。结果表明：砂性土中细颗粒以滚动方式起动,起动临界水力坡降受渗流水流、土体特性以及颗粒自身特性共同影响;砂性土表层细颗粒起动临界水力坡降受埋深影响较大,埋深1 cm的细颗粒最高、最低起动临界水力坡降相差10.169%,埋深10 cm时差异减少至1.061%。该计算方法与数值模拟和渗流试验结果的最大标准误差分别为6.038%、11.211%,可以较为准确地预测砂性土细颗粒起动临界水力坡降。