Anisotropy measurements and characterization of the Qingshankou shale

Qingshankou shale(Gulong area,China)exhibits strong acoustic anisotropy characteristics,posing significant challenges to its exploration and development.In this study,the five full elastic constants and multipole response law of the Qingshankou shale were studied using experimental measurements.Analyses show that the anisotropy parametersϵandγin the study region are greater than 0.4,whereas the anisotropy parameterδis smaller,generally 0.1.Numerical simulations show that the longitudinal and transverse wave velocities of these strong anisotropic rocks vary significantly with inclination angle,and significant differences in group velocity and phase velocity are also present.Acoustic logging measures the group velocity in dipped boreholes;this differs from the phase velocity to some extent.As the dip angle increases,the longitudinal and SH wave velocities increase accordingly,while the qSV-wave velocity initially increases and then decreases,reaching its maximum value at a dip of approximately 40°.These results provide an effective guide for the correction and modeling of acoustic logging time differences in the region.

A simplified approach to directly consider intact rock anisotropy in Hoek——Brown failure criterion

Many rock types have naturally occurring inherent anisotropic planes, such as bedding planes, foliation,or flow structures. Such characteristic induces directional features and anisotropy in rocks＇ strength anddeformational properties. The HoekeBrown （HeB） failure criterion is an empirical strength criterionwidely applied to rock mechanics and engineering. A direct modification to HeB failure criterion toaccount for rock anisotropy is considered as the base of the research. Such modification introduced a newdefinition of the anisotropy as direct parameter named the anisotropic parameter （Kb）. However, thecomputation of this parameter takes much experimental work and cannot be calculated in a simple way.The aim of this paper is to study the trend of the relation between the degree of anisotropy （Rc） and theminimum value of anisotropic parameter （Kmin）, and to predict the Kmin directly from the uniaxialcompression tests instead of triaxial tests, and also to decrease the amount of experimental work. 2014 Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Production and hosting byElsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Research on anisotropic parameters by syn-thetic seismogram

Based on the extensive-dilatancy anisotropy theory, the method of synthetic seismogram is used to estimate the anisotropic parameters. The advantages of the method lie in that it avoids the singularity resolution and saves calculation time of computer by using the eigenvalue and eigenvector analytical expressions of Christoffel equation, at the same time, the result is tested by coherence function. The test result reveals that there exists a fine linear relation between original records and synthetic records, indicating the anisotropic parameters estimated by synthetic seismogram can reflect and describe the anisotropic characteristics of the given region medium.

Anisotropy of Ca0.73La0.27(Fe0.96Co0.04)As2 studied by torque magnetometry

Torque measurements were performed on single crystal samples of Ca0.73La0.27(Fe0.96Co0.04)As2 in both the normal and superconducting states.Contributions to the torque signal from the paramagnetism and the vortex lattice were identified.The superconducting anisotropy parameterγwas determined from the reversible part of the vortex contribution based on Kogan's model.It is found thatγ≈7.5 at t=T/Tc=0.85,which is smaller than the result of CaFe0.88Co0.12AsFγ≈15 at t=0.83,but larger than the result of 11 and 122 families,whereγstays in the range of 2-3.The moderate anisotropy of this 112 iron-based superconductor fills the gap between 11,122 families and 1111 families.In addition,we found that theγshows a temperature dependent behavior,i.e.,decreasing with increasing temperature.The fact thatγis not a constant point towards a multiband scenario in this compound.

A Velocity Map Ion-imaging Study on Ketene Photodissociation at 218 nm

Photodissociation dynamics of ketene at 218 nm has been investigated using the velocity map ion-imaging method. Both angular and translational energy distributions for the CO products at different rotational and vibrational states have been obtained. The 2＋1 REMPI spectrum of CO products is also obtained. The results are as bellow： （i） CO products in the first two vibrational states （ v＂=0 and v＂=1 ） exhibit significant rotational excitation. Furthermore the rotational excitation of CO at the v＂=0 level is noticeably higher than that at the v＂=1 level. （ii） It was found that the major photodissociation pathway of ketene at 218 nm is the CH2（ǎ^1A1）＋CO（X^1∑^＋） channel, while the CH2（b^1B1）＋CO（X^1∑^＋） channel and the CH2（X^3B1）＋CO（X^1E^＋） channel are also likely present, （iii） The anisotropy parameters β of CO different rovibronic states all appear to be larger than zero. No significant difference is observed at the two vibrational states,

Study of elastic wave propagation in two phase anisotropic media by numerical modeling of pseudospectral method

When there exists anisotropy in underground media elastic parameters of the observed coordinate possibly do not coincide with that of the natural coordinate. According to the theory that the density of potential energy, dissipating energy is independent of the coordinate, the relationship of elastic parameters between two coordinates is derived for two-phase anisotropic media. Then, pseudospectral method to solve wave equations of two-phase anisotropic media is derived. At last, we use this method to simulate wave propagation in two-phase anisotropic media four types of waves are observed in the snapshots, i.e., fast P wave and slow P wave, fast S wave and slow S wave. Shear wave splitting, SV wave cusps and elastic wave reflection and transmission are also observed.

Vacuum Ultraviolet Photodissociation Dynamics of N_(2)O+hν→N_(2)(X^(1)Σg+)+O(^(1)S0) in the Short Wavelength Tail of D^(1)Σ+Band

Vacuum ultraviolet photodissociation dynamics of N2O+hν→N2(X^(1)Σg+)+O(^(1)S0)in the short wavelength tail of D^(1)Σ+band has been investigated using the time-sliced velocity-mapped ion imaging technique by probing the images of the O(^(1)S0)photoproducts at a set of photolysis wavelengths including 121.47 nm,122.17 nm,123.25 nm and 123.95 nm.The product total kinetic energy release distributions,vibrational state distributions of the N2(X^(1)Σg+)photofragments and angular anisotropy parameters have been obtained by analyzing the raw O(^(1)S0)images.It is noted that additional vibrationally excited photoproducts(3≤v≤8)with a Boltzmann-like feature start to appear except the non-statistical component as the photolysis wavelength decreases to 123.25 nm,and the corresponding populations become more pronounced with decreasing of the photolysis wavelength.Furthermore,the vibrational state specific anisotropy parameterβat each photolysis wavelength exhibits a drastic fluctuation nearβ=1.75 at v<8,and decreases to a minimum as the vibrational quantum number further increases.While the overall anisotropy parameterβfor the N2(X^(1)Σg+)+O(^(1)S0)channel presents a roughly monotonical increase from 1.63 at 121.47 nm to 1.95 at 123.95 nm.The experimental observations suggest that there is at least one fast nonadiabatic pathway from initially prepared D^(1)Σ+state to the dissociative state with bent geometry dominating to generate the additional vibrational structures at high photoexcitation energies.

Spatial anisotropy: a method to study anisotropic flow in heavy ion collisions

We introduce a method to study anisotropic flow parameter v n as a collective probe to Quark Gluon Plasma in relativistic heavy ion collisions. The emphasis is put on the use of the Fourier expansion of initial spatial azimuthal distributions of participant nucleons in the overlapped region. The coefficients ε n of Fourier expansion are called the spatial anisotropy parameter for the n-th harmonic. We propose that collective dynamics can be studied by v n /ε n . In this paper, we will discuss in particular the second （n = 2） and the fourth （n = 4） harmonics.