On 5th September 2022,a magnitude Ms-6.8 earthquake occurred nearby Mt.Gongga,western Sichuan.The stability of the glaciers in east Mt.Gongga close to the epicenter was widely concerned due to the strong shake trigger...On 5th September 2022,a magnitude Ms-6.8 earthquake occurred nearby Mt.Gongga,western Sichuan.The stability of the glaciers in east Mt.Gongga close to the epicenter was widely concerned due to the strong shake triggered by the earthquake.Using multi-source observations(including in-situ photographs,remote sensing datasets before and after the event),we carried out a preliminary assessment of the stability and hazard risks of the Hailuogou(HLG)glacier.Triggered by the earthquake,a small block of fractured ice at the lowest part of icefall collapsed.The magnitude of the coseismic ice avalanche was relatively small,which is comparable in size to most ice avalanches over the past seven years,but much less than the previous mapped largest one(03 April 2018,runout~699 m).One most recent large(runout~608 m)ice avalanche occurred between 01 and 04 September,just before the earthquake,likely unloaded large amount of ice mass and made a larger ice avalanche avoided during the earthquake shake.Nevertheless,the momentum of collapsed snow-icerock mass could be safely unloaded over a wide and gentler-slope ice tongue area,limiting its mobility and the risk of a cascading hazard.Glacier-wide surface flow dynamics monitored by Sentinel-1 satellite SAR time series(12 September 2021–19 September 2022)show that HLG glacier velocity was generally consistent before and after the earthquake.The entire HLG glacier exhibited more stable than expected,with almost no abnormal features detected in its upper accumulation part,the lower ice tongue,and its lateral paraglacial slopes.Since the glacier valley has experienced remarkable downwasting and the paraglacial environment has been strongly disturbed and destabilized,we suggested that,to efficiently evaluate glacier-related cascading hazard risks,it is also necessary to systematically combine multi-source observations(e.g.,high-resolution UAV survey,radar/Lidar scan,ground investigation,monitoring and warning systems)to continuously monitor the regional glacier anomalies in the post-earthquake seismic active areas.展开更多
基于离散元法(discrete element method,DEM)建立沥青混合料二维劈裂(indirect tensile,IDT)试验模型,研究集料模型、集料形状、空隙率,以及加载方位角等因素对混合料低温劈裂虚拟试验结果(劈裂强度和最大水平拉应力)的影响。结果表明:...基于离散元法(discrete element method,DEM)建立沥青混合料二维劈裂(indirect tensile,IDT)试验模型,研究集料模型、集料形状、空隙率,以及加载方位角等因素对混合料低温劈裂虚拟试验结果(劈裂强度和最大水平拉应力)的影响。结果表明:沥青混合料低温虚拟劈裂试验时,集料模型对数值模拟计算效率、内部结构中的接触力链和裂纹扩展路径等有很大影响;实际边界模型较等效椭圆形与等效多边形模型其数值模拟结果变异性较小;空隙率大小对劈裂强度及水平向最大拉应力有显著影响,随空隙率的增大两者均有不同程度的减小;不同加载方位角下的劈裂试验数值模拟结果呈各向异性。展开更多
基金funded by the Natural Science Foundation of China(Grants Nos.41871069 and 42071084)Outstanding Youth Scholars Foundation of Sichuan Province(Grants No.2021JDJQ0009)。
文摘On 5th September 2022,a magnitude Ms-6.8 earthquake occurred nearby Mt.Gongga,western Sichuan.The stability of the glaciers in east Mt.Gongga close to the epicenter was widely concerned due to the strong shake triggered by the earthquake.Using multi-source observations(including in-situ photographs,remote sensing datasets before and after the event),we carried out a preliminary assessment of the stability and hazard risks of the Hailuogou(HLG)glacier.Triggered by the earthquake,a small block of fractured ice at the lowest part of icefall collapsed.The magnitude of the coseismic ice avalanche was relatively small,which is comparable in size to most ice avalanches over the past seven years,but much less than the previous mapped largest one(03 April 2018,runout~699 m).One most recent large(runout~608 m)ice avalanche occurred between 01 and 04 September,just before the earthquake,likely unloaded large amount of ice mass and made a larger ice avalanche avoided during the earthquake shake.Nevertheless,the momentum of collapsed snow-icerock mass could be safely unloaded over a wide and gentler-slope ice tongue area,limiting its mobility and the risk of a cascading hazard.Glacier-wide surface flow dynamics monitored by Sentinel-1 satellite SAR time series(12 September 2021–19 September 2022)show that HLG glacier velocity was generally consistent before and after the earthquake.The entire HLG glacier exhibited more stable than expected,with almost no abnormal features detected in its upper accumulation part,the lower ice tongue,and its lateral paraglacial slopes.Since the glacier valley has experienced remarkable downwasting and the paraglacial environment has been strongly disturbed and destabilized,we suggested that,to efficiently evaluate glacier-related cascading hazard risks,it is also necessary to systematically combine multi-source observations(e.g.,high-resolution UAV survey,radar/Lidar scan,ground investigation,monitoring and warning systems)to continuously monitor the regional glacier anomalies in the post-earthquake seismic active areas.
文摘基于离散元法(discrete element method,DEM)建立沥青混合料二维劈裂(indirect tensile,IDT)试验模型,研究集料模型、集料形状、空隙率,以及加载方位角等因素对混合料低温劈裂虚拟试验结果(劈裂强度和最大水平拉应力)的影响。结果表明:沥青混合料低温虚拟劈裂试验时,集料模型对数值模拟计算效率、内部结构中的接触力链和裂纹扩展路径等有很大影响;实际边界模型较等效椭圆形与等效多边形模型其数值模拟结果变异性较小;空隙率大小对劈裂强度及水平向最大拉应力有显著影响,随空隙率的增大两者均有不同程度的减小;不同加载方位角下的劈裂试验数值模拟结果呈各向异性。