On the Validity of Darcy's Law for Stable High-Concentration Displacements in Granular Porous Media

Recently, it has been suggested that Darcy's Law might not be applicable for modelling miscible, density-dependent flow in porous media. To investigate this, three sets of careful laboratory column experiments were performed on coarse and medium sands, consisting of upward displacement of water by sodium chloride solutions with concentrations ranging from 5 to 200g/l. Data on salt concentrations and water pressures were collected in horizontal transects along the flow direction. Salt concentration data were also collected in the influent and exit lines. The experimental data were analysed using a simplified approach based on Darcy's Law alone, applied with the assumption of a sharp interface. Darcy's Law was used to estimate porous medium permeability by fitting predictions to experimental data. Consistent estimates of permeability were obtained for each set of experiments. The results indicate that Darcy's Law adequately describes high concentration displacements through saturated coarse- and medium-grained porous media.     

A STRESS VECTOR-BASED CONSTITUTIVE MODEL FOR COHESIONLESS SOIL (Ⅱ)-APPLICATION

The stress vector-based constitutive model for cohesionless soil, proposed by SHI Hong-yan et al., was applied to analyze the deformation behaviors of materials subjected to various stress paths. The result of analysis shows that the constitutive model can capture well the main deformation behavior of cohesionless soil, such as stress-strain nonlinearity, hardening property, dilatancy, stress path dependency, non-coaxiality between the principal stress and the principal strain increment directions, and the coupling of mean effective and deviatoric stress with deformation. In addition, the model can also take into account the rotation of principal stress axes and the influence of intermediate principal stress on deformation and strength of soil simultaneously. The excellent agreement between the predicted and measured behavior indicates the comprehensive applicability of the model. Biography: SHI Hong-yan (1962-), Associate Professor, Doctor     

基于摇臂——转向架结构月球车的越障能力判断准则

对轮式移动系统进行越障分析时,常以垂直越障作为评价标准.但是,月球车在凹凸不平的月面上行驶时,垂直越障模型不具有一般性.为此,本文对基于摇臂-转向架结构月球车在任意路面的越障进行了研究.一般情况下,由于任意路面越障模型相对复杂,可以建立的独立平衡方程数目少于未知变量数,因此无法得到越障能力与路面参数的函数关系式.针对上述问题,文中将最大有效牵引力假设引入越障模型中,得到了一种任意路面越障能力的判断准则.通过算例分析,表明了所提方法的有效性.     

Analysis of penetration of axisymmetric projectiles into semi-infinite targets

The process of penetration of a projectile into a semi-infinitetarget is studied in this paper. Using certain assumptions, the propagation of plastic wave in the target is analyzed and the pressure on the surface of penetrator is given. The results calculated from the formulas of this paper agree well with experimental data and numerical results.     

CO2 will probably not help to save Venice from the sea

It has been proposed to rise Venice by injecting CO₂ into an aquifer lying 600–800 m below its lagoon. It is shown that because of the prevailing ambient conditions in the aquifer phase change of CO₂ cannot be avoided. The ensuing change of specific volume and compressibility will inhibit a uniform uplift pattern which is needed to avoid cracks in historical buildings. Further, both liquid and gaseous CO₂ produce capillary effects at the contact surface with water in the voids of the reservoir rock and this affects its mechanical response. Hence further non homogeneity in the uplift pattern will be produced. This prevents the use of CO₂ in the proposed conditions.     

软土地基变形的混沌性与承载力识别

本文以混沌理论为基础, 分析了软土地基变形的混沌性态, 并采用映射函数f(x)=ax²+c来拟合软土地基的沉降-载荷曲线。根据映射函数的不动点, 对软土地基加固前后的承载力进行了识别, 并与按相对变形值确定的承载力进行了比较。     

非均质土层下基桩的动力稳定性研究

本文根据桩在轴向谐振力作用下，探讨了非均质层下基桩的动力稳定性问题，分析了各种地基土横向抗力系数K以及桩的几何特征，激振频率，桩土阻尼对桩动力稳定性的影响，结果表明，随地基土层的不同，基桩的动力不稳定区域将发生不同的变化，随桩径，桩长的增大，基桩的动力不稳定区域将逐渐减小，表明地基土的横向抗力对桩的动力稳定性起加强作用，桩土阻尼对基桩的动力稳定性影响较大，得出了一些有价值的结论，可为工程设计提供参考依据。     

三相介质饱和土自由场中爆炸波的传播规律

饱和土是由固体上颗粒、水和少量封闭的空气组成的三相介质。介绍了爆炸波作用下三相介质饱和土有限元基本方程的建立过程，推导了引进人工粘性项的动力有限元方程，得到在饱和土自由场中爆炸波的传播规律；不同空气含量饱和土中爆炸波随深度的衰减规律。文中还给出了有限元与有限差分间断分解结果的比较，以说明本文理论方法的有效性。     

On Determining the Percolation Reynolds Number and the Characteristic Linear Dimension for Ideal and Fictitious Porous Media

Various versions of representations of the percolation Reynolds number for porous media with isotropic and anisotropic flow properties are considered. The formulas are derived and the variants are analyzed with reference to model porous media with a periodic microstructure formed by systems of capillaries and packings consisting of spheres of constant diameter (ideal and fictitious porous media, respectively). A generalization of the Kozeny formula is given for determining the capillary diameter in an ideal porous medium equivalent to a fictitious medium with respect to permeability and porosity and it is shown that the capillary diameter is nonuniquely determined. Relations for recalculating values of the Reynolds number determined by means of formulas proposed earlier are given and it is shown that taking the microstructure of porous media into account, as proposed in [1, 2], makes it possible to explain the large scatter of the numerical values of the Reynolds number in processing the experimental data.