A smoothed particle hydrodynamics modelling of soil–water mixing and resulting changes in average strength     

Wangcheng Zhang  Mark F. Randolph 《国际地质力学数值与分析法杂志》2020,44(11):1548-1569

Soil–water interaction is a pivotal process in many underwater geohazards such as underwater landslides where soil sediments gradually evolve into turbidity currents after interactions with ambient water. Due to the large deformations, multiphase interactions and phase changes this involves, investigations from numerical modelling of the transition process have been limited so far. This study explores a simple numerical replication of such soil–water mixing with respect to changes in average strength using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). A uniform viscoplastic model is used for both the solid-like and fluid-like SPH particles. The proposed numerical solution scheme is verified by single-phase dam break tests and multiphase simple shear tests. SPH combinations of solid-like and fluid-like particles can replicate the clay–water mixture as long as the liquidity index of the solid-like particles is larger than unity. The proposed numerical scheme is shown to capture key features of an underwater landslide such as hydroplaning, water entrainment and wave generation and thus shows promise as a tool to simulate the whole process of subaquatic geohazards involving solid–fluid transition during mass transport.  相似文献   

A GIS based planning support system for assessing financial feasibility of urban redevelopment     

Simone Z. Leao  Laurence Troy  Scott N. Lieske  Bill Randolph  Chris Pettit 《GeoJournal》2018,83(6):1373-1392

Urban densification trends combined with redevelopment increasingly moving away from large former industrial and transport sites toward existing town centres and corridors indicate redevelopment is becoming increasingly complex, difficult to plan for and undertake. The interplay between land and property markets and planning frameworks suggest city planners and urban researchers need new tools and methodologies to gain insights into ways to deliver effective responses. Despite the need, there is a limited availability of comprehensive models to fulfil the task. This paper describes a GIS-based tool to assess parcel-level financial feasibility and housing supply associated with urban redevelopment within a precinct. The tool incorporates existing and potential built form and parameters associated with the planning framework and land and property markets. Using a real case study in a workshop, tool performance was evaluated by professional urban planners in terms of its capacity to produce metrics and visualisations of potential scenarios of redevelopment. Results indicate the usefulness of the tool for emulating land market conditions and testing scenarios of planning regulation and market changes for strategic planning purposes.  相似文献   

Dynamic propagation criteria for catastrophic failure in planar landslides          下载免费PDF全文

Wangcheng Zhang  Dong Wang  Mark F. Randolph  Alexander M. Puzrin 《国际地质力学数值与分析法杂志》2016,40(17):2312-2338

Quantitative assessment of the risk of submarine landslides is an essential part of the design process for offshore oil and gas developments in deep water, beyond the continental shelf. Landslides may be triggered by a reduction in shear strength of subsea sediments over a given zone, caused for example by seismic activity. Simple criteria are then needed to identify critical conditions whereby the zone of weakness could grow catastrophically to cause a landslide. A number of such criteria have been developed over the last decade, based either on ideas drawn from fracture mechanics, or considering the equilibrium of the initial weakened zone and adjacent process zones of gradually softening material. Accounting for the history of the weak zone initiation is critical for derivation of reliable propagation criteria, in particular considering dynamic effects arising from accumulating kinetic energy of the failing material, which will allow the failure to propagate from a smaller initial zone of weakened sediments. Criteria are developed here for planar conditions, taking full account of such dynamic effects, which are shown to be capable of reducing the critical length of the softened zone by 20% or more compared with criteria based on static conditions. A numerical approach is used to solve the governing dynamic equations for the sliding material, the results from which justify assumptions that allow analytical criteria to be developed for the case where the initial softening occurs instantaneously. The effect of more gradual softening is also explored. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Interpretation of undisturbed hydrogeochemical conditions in Neogene sediments of the Horonobe area, Hokkaido, Japan   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Hiroshi Sasamoto  Randolph C. ArthurKatsuhiro Hama 《Applied Geochemistry》2011,26(8):1464-1477

Empirical, geostatistical and geochemical modeling techniques were used to determine whether chemical, isotopic and mineralogical data collected in surface-based borehole investigations at the Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory (URL) site in Hokkaido, Japan were representative of the natural environment before it was disturbed by borehole drilling, hydraulic testing and sampling. Water samples collected either by pumping groundwaters to the surface from borehole sections that had been isolated by inflatable packers or by squeezing porewaters from drillcores sampled from the same borehole and sampling depth were found to be similar in certain respects (m_Na+, m_Cl−, δ¹⁸O and δD) but not others (m_SO42−, m_Ca2+, m_Mg2+ and m_K+). The inconsistencies suggest that a majority of the porewater samples were contaminated as a result of pyrite oxidation and dissolution of carbonate minerals during sampling, storage and/or squeezing of the drillcores. Multivariate geostatistical analyses support this hypothesis, and further suggest that uncontaminated porewaters and groundwaters can be divided into three representative groups: a low salinity, low δ¹⁸O and low δD group; a moderate salinity, low Ca-Mg group; and a high salinity, high K and moderate Ca-Mg group. The groundwaters also contain high concentrations of dissolved gases, including CH₄(g), CO₂(g), H₂S(g) and various hydrocarbons, which exsolve from the groundwaters as they are pumped to the surface for sampling. The effects of such degassing on the chemistry of groundwater samples was evaluated by using a reaction-path model to simulate the titration of gases collected at the surface back into the samples. Results suggest that undisturbed groundwaters are slightly more acidic than their sampled counterparts, and contain roughly equivalent activities of dissolved CH₄(aq) and carbonate species. Redox potentials calculated using the corrected groundwater compositions and assuming equilibrium for the CH₄(aq)/CO₂(aq) redox couple are significantly more negative than those determined in situ in one borehole using a downhole chemical probe, and those that can be inferred from the ubiquitous presence of small amounts of framboidal pyrite and siderite in siliceous biogenic sediments of the Horonobe area. The empirical, geostatistical and geochemical modeling techniques considered in this study can be adapted for use in characterizing the hydrogeochemical environment of a site that will eventually be selected to host a geologic repository for high-level nuclear waste in Japan.  相似文献   

A method to regenerate the damaged Chironomidae slides in entellan mounting solution     

Armin Namayandeh  Joseph Culp 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2015,53(2):251-253

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Distribution of deep near-inertial waves observed in the Kuroshio Extension     

Jae-Hun Park  Kathleen A. Donohue  D. Randolph Watts  Luc Rainville 《Journal of Oceanography》2010,66(5):709-717

The distribution of deep near-inertial waves (NIWs) is investigated using data mainly from an array of 46 near-bottom acoustic current meter sensors spanning a 600 km × 600 km region as part of the Kuroshio Extension System Study during 2004–2006. The deep NIW distribution is interpreted in the context of both upper-layer and near-bottom mapped circulations. The wintertime-mean mixed-layer NIW energy input, modeled from observed wind stress, has the same range of values north and south of the Kuroshio Extension in this region. Yet, the wintertime-mean deep NIW energy distribution reveals a sharp factor-of-5 decrease from north to south of the Kuroshio jet. This direct observational evidence shows that the Kuroshio Extension blocks the equatorward propagation of NIWs. The NIW energy that does reach the sea floor within the subset of wintertime observations in the subtropical gyre arrives with patchy spatial and temporal distribution. Elevated NIW energy in deep water is associated with anticyclones in the deep barotropic flow and unassociated with upper layer eddies.  相似文献   

A field comparison of two methods for the determination of copper complexation: Bacterial bioassay and fixed-potential amperometry     

Janet G. Hering  William G. Sunda  Randolph L. Ferguson  Francois M.M. Morel 《Marine Chemistry》1987,20(4)

Complexation of copper added to seawater was determined by bacterial bioassay and fixedpotential amperometry. Consistent results were obtained by these two fundamentally different methods. The results of this study support the validity of both techniques and the field applicability of fixed-potential amperometry.The intercomparison studies were performed on samples collected at the N.Y.C. sewage sludge dumpsite and in relatively unpolluted coastal waters. In this limited study, the calculated free cupric ion concentrations at ambient total copper concentrations were similar at both sites.  相似文献   

Finite element analyses of soil plug response     

E. C. Leong  M. F. Randolph 《国际地质力学数值与分析法杂志》1991,15(2):121-141

Open-ended pipe piles are often used in offshore foundations. The response of the soil plug inside a pipe pile is poorly understood, and only limited work has been performed to quantify the response under the different loading conditions relevant to offshore platforms. This paper describes numerical analyses that have been carried out in order to assess the end-bearing capacity of the soil plug under loading conditions which range from undrained to fully drained. The soil plug has been modelled as either elastic, elastic–perfectly-plastic or elastoplastic. The soil–pile interface, an important aspect of the problem, has been examined critically. Comparison with experimental data from model test at laboratory scale indicates that the load–deformation behaviour of the soil plug is modelled well using an elastoplastic model for the soil plug, and an elastic–perfectly-plastic joint element to model the soil–pile interface. The finite element analyses show that, under typical loading conditions, adequate end bearing may be mobilized by the soil plug, largely by high effective stresses in the bottom 3–5 diameters of the soil plug.  相似文献   

Physics of an active region loop system     

Randolph H. Levine  George L. Withbroe 《Solar physics》1977,51(1):83-101

The structure of the active region loops is investigated by the study of a loop complex which undergoes a dramatic evacuation of most of the mass it contains. The need for continual energy deposition in loops is emphasized by the apparent cessation of energy input to the loops studied and their subsequent behavior. Estimates are made of the energy necessary to form and to maintain the loops, and of the relative importance of radiation and thermal conduction as energy loss mechanisms. Models based on the observed EUV emission are used to place limits on the size of loops seen in various lines and on the density and temperature structure. We find that the cool cores of active region loops are likely to be no more than a few hundred kilometers in radius and that several such cool threads may be imbedded in a common hot outer sheath. The primary energy loss on a large scale is radiation with thermal conduction contributing to local disturbances. There is a tendency for the development of apparently unstable condensations or knots along the length of a loop. Higher resolution observations will be necessary to confirm some of our predictions.  相似文献   

Evolution of photospheric magnetic field patterns during skylab     

Randolph H. Levine 《Solar physics》1977,54(2):327-341

The evolution of the photospheric magnetic field pattern over eleven solar rotations preceding a minimum of the activity cycle is shown to be characterized by abrupt changes of the dominant geometrical patterns of the field. These changes are associated with the onset and end of a sudden increase in the calculated total energy content of the field, which is otherwise decreasing through the period. The calculated geometrical rearrangements correspond in time to observed restructurings of the corona, the interplanetary field, and the solar rotation pattern.  相似文献