Characterization of drying-induced deformation behaviour of Opalinus Clay and tuff in no-stress regime   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Aung Ko Ko Soe  Masahiko Osada  Manabu Takahashi  Tai Sasaki 《Environmental Geology》2009,58(6):1215-1225

The drying-induced deformation behaviour of Opalinus Clay and tuff, which are being investigated under international and local collaborative projects for nuclear waste disposal in Switzerland and Japan, was investigated under a no-stress condition in the laboratory to evaluate their generic susceptibility to the formation of excavation damaged zone. The cylindrical core samples of Opalinus Clay and tuff were prepared to a one-dimensional drying condition and submitted to an uncontrolled laboratory environment. The strain evolution, evaporative water loss and environmental entities, such as temperature and relative humidity, were recorded simultaneously and quasi-continuously. It was observed that the drying phase induced significant strain magnitude and damage in Opalinus Clay samples, which was evidenced by the formation of hairy cracks on the surface parallel to the bedding. On the contrary, the strain occurrences in tuff samples were relatively insignificant, and no tendency of cracking was observed. In addition, the quasi-continuous availability of volumetric strains was further used in poroelastic relation for the estimation of capillary suction evolution. The calculated results were validated with pore size distributions obtained from mercury intrusion porosimetry.  相似文献   

Imaging the cool stars in the interacting binaries AE Aqr,BV Cen and V426 Oph     

C.A. Watson  D. Steeghs  V.S. Dhillon  T. Shahbaz 《Astronomische Nachrichten》2007,328(8):813-816

It is well known that magnetic activity in late‐type stars increases with increasing rotation rate. Using inversion techniques akin to medical imaging, the rotationally broadened profiles from such stars can be used to reconstruct ‘Doppler images’ of the distribution of cool, dark starspots on their stellar surfaces. Interacting binaries, however, contain some of the most rapidly rotating late‐type stars known and thus provide important tests of stellar dynamo models. Furthermore, magnetic activity is thought to play a key role in their evolution, behaviour and accretion dynamics. Despite this, we know comparatively little about the magnetic activity and its influence on such binaries. In this review we summarise the concepts behind indirect imaging of these systems, and present movies of the starspot distributions on the cool stars in some interacting binaries. We conclude with a look at the future opportunities that such studies may provide. (© 2007 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)  相似文献   

LiDAR-derived DEM evaluation of deep-seated landslides in a steep and rocky region of Japan   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Mio Kasai  Manabu Ikeda  Toshihiro Asahina  Kazunori Fujisawa 《Geomorphology》2009,113(1-2):57

In steep and rocky terrains, their rough surfaces make it difficult to create landslide inventories even with detailed maps/images produced from airborne LiDAR data. To provide objective clues in locating deep-seated landslides, the surface textures of a 5 km² steepland area in Japan was investigated using the eigenvalue ratio and slope filters calculated from a very high resolution LiDAR-derived DEM. The range of filter values was determined for each of a number of surface features mapped in the field and these included: cracked bedrock outcrops, coarse colluvial deposits, gently undulating surfaces, and smooth surfaces. Recently active slides commonly contained patches of ground in which deposition and erosion occurred together near the erosion front, or where cracked bedrock outcrops and coarse colluvial deposits coexisted under a gently undulating surface. The characteristic eigenvalue and slope filter values representing this sliding process were applied to maps of the DEM derived filter values to extract potential sites of recent landslide activity. In addition, the relationships between the filter values of deep-seated landslides at various stages of evolution within the field mapped area were extended to the entire study area, to assess the contribution that landslide evolution makes to change in the landscape as a whole. While landslide components made up the steepest as well as the gentlest parts of the landscape depending on their evolutionary stage, landslides were constantly coarsened and steepened by progressive erosion, probably initiated by river bank erosion at the foot of slopes.  相似文献   

Colliding winds in V1016 Cygni     

S. K. Watson  S. P. S. Eyres  R. J. Davis  M. F. Bode  A. M. S. Richards  H. T. Kenny 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2000,311(3):449-455

We present MERLIN observations of the symbiotic nova V1016 Cygni made at 6 cm between 1992 and 1997 and at 18 cm in 1993 and 1997. In the 6-cm images we find complex structure which has not been previously seen, in particular three bright components. These components do not appear to be expanding as would be expected from the remains of a hot wind resulting from the nova outburst. The change in positions of two of the features exhibits tentative east–west movement. The brightness temperature of the peak with the highest flux density remains above 50 000 K in all epochs, thereby confirming the presence of shocked material in the system. At 18 cm there is no evidence of any non-thermal emission as might be expected from comparison with a sister star, HM Sge.  相似文献   

The ROSAT International X-ray/Optical Survey (RIXOS): source catalogue     

K. O. Mason  F. J. Carrera  G. Hasinger  H. Andernach  A. Aragon-Salamanca  X. Barcons  R. Bower  W. N. Brandt  G. Branduardi-Raymont  J. Burgos-Martín  F. Cabrera-Guerra  R. Carballo  F. Castander  R. S. Ellis  J. I. González-Serrano  E. Martínez-González  J. M. Martín-Mirones  R. G. McMahon  J. P. D. Mittaz  K. L. Nicholson  M. J. Page  I. Pérez-Fournon  E. M. Puchnarewicz  E. Romero-Colmenero  A. D. Schwope  B. Vila  M. G. Watson  D. Wonnacott 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2000,311(3):456-484

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The Impact of the Anomalous Weather of 1995 on the U.K. Economy     

S. Subak  J. P. Palutikof  M. D. Agnew  S. J. Watson  C. G. Bentham  M. G. R. Cannell  M. Hulme  S. McNally  J. E. Thornes  D. Waughray  J. C. Woods 《Climatic change》2000,44(1-2):1-26

This study assesses selected impacts on tertiary activities of the anomalously hot summer of 1995 and warm period from November 1994 through October 1995 in the U.K. Over this period, the mean Central England temperature was 1.6 °C above the 1961–1990 normal, representing the highest mean 12-month temperature since the start of the Central England temperature record in 1659. The study is distinguished by its breadth of coverage, for it includes tertiary sectors and activities. Although impacts in tertiary activities are often not included in assessments of the potential impacts of climatic change, many of these activities are very important to the U.K. economy, and therefore even a small perturbation in output due to a weather extreme can have significant implications for the economy as a whole. The activities and sectors studied include energy consumption, retailing and manufacturing, construction and buildings, tourism, health, human behaviour, and fires. Both negative and positive impacts were incurred within most sectors. Net positive impacts (to the general public) were found convincingly for energy consumption and health, and clear negative impacts for buildings insurance and fires. Sectors which show clear differences in their response to winter and summer warm anomalies are energy consumption, tourism and health (greater sensitivity to winter anomalies) and buildings insurance and fires (greater sensitivity to summer anomalies). Changes in sensitivity to climate extremes may have occurred over time, and a comparison of impacts of the 1995 anomalous weather with the unusually warm dry period of 1975–1976 is approached for several series.  相似文献   

A measurement at the first acoustic peak of the cosmic microwave background with the 33-GHz interferometer     

D. L. Harrison  J. A. Rubiño-Martin  S. J. Melhuish  R. A. Watson  R. D. Davies  R. Rebolo  R. J. Davis  C. M. Gutiérrez  J. F. Macias-Perez 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2000,316(2):L24-L28

This paper presents the results from the Jodrell BankInstituto de Astrofisicia de Canarias (IAC) two-element 33-GHz interferometer operated with an element separation of 32.9 wavelengths and hence sensitive to 1°-scale structure on the sky. The level of cosmic microwave background (CMB) fluctuations, assuming a flat CMB spatial power spectrum over the range of multipoles =208±18, was found using a likelihood analysis to be at the 68 per cent confidence level, after the subtraction of the contribution of monitored point sources. Other possible foreground contributions have been assessed and are expected to have negligible impact on this result.  相似文献   

GeoPT4. An International Proficiency Test for Analytical Geochemistry Laboratories - Report on Round 4 (March 1999)     

Michael Thompson  Philip J. Potts  Jean S. Kane  Peter C. Webb  John S. Watson 《Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research》2000,24(1):E1-E37

Results are presented from the seventy five laboratories participating in GeoPT4, round four of the international proficiency testing programme for analytical geochemistry laboratories. Laboratories were required to analyse the sample OU-2 (Belford dolerite) using routine methods of analysis. The sample was distributed during September 1998 with a deadline for the submission of results of 15th January 1999. In this report, contributed data are analysed and z-scores calculated. Z-score values provide participating laboratories with information concerning the quality of their results and indicate data that may be subject to unsuspected analytical bias. Laboratories are invited to examine these data and take the appropriate action.  相似文献   

    

D. F. Watson 《Mathematical Geology》1991,23(2):279

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The lateral distribution of extensive air showers produced by cosmic rays above 10 eV as measured by water- erenkov detectors     

R. N. Coy  G. Cunningham  C. L. Pryke  A. A. Watson 《Astroparticle Physics》1997,6(3-4)

Measurements of the lateral distribution function (ldf) of Extensive Air Showers (EAS) as recorded by the array of water- erenkov detectors at Haverah Park are described, and accurate experimental parameterizations expressing the mean ldf for 2 × 10¹⁷ < E < 4 × 10¹⁸ eV, 50 < r < 700 m, and θ < 45° are given. An extrapolation of these relations to the regime E ≥ 10¹⁹ eV and r > 700 m is described: extrapolation in this energy domain appears valid, and an approximate correction term is given for the larger core distances. The results of recent Monte Carlo simulations of shower development and detector behavior are compared to the parameterized ldf. The agreement is good increasing confidence that these simulations may be trusted as design tools for the Auger project, a proposed ‘next generation’ detector system.  相似文献