Failure mechanisms and destruction characteristics of cemented coal gangue backfill under compression effect of non-uniform load

Backfill mining is one of the most important technical means for controlling strata movement and reducing surface subsidence and environmental damage during exploitation of underground coal resources. Ensuring the stability of the backfill bodies is the primary prerequisite for maintaining the safety of the backfilling working face, and the loading characteristics of backfill are closely related to the deformation and subsidence of the roof. Elastic thin plate model was used to explore the non-uniform subsidence law of the roof, and then the non-uniform distribution characteristics of backfill bodies’ load were revealed. Through a self-developed non-uniform loading device combined with acoustic emission (AE) and digital image correlation (DIC) monitoring technology, the synergistic dynamic evolution law of the bearing capacity, apparent crack, and internal fracture of cemented coal gangue backfills (CCGBs) under loads with different degrees of non-uniformity was deeply explored. The results showed that: 1) The uniaxial compressive strength (UCS) of CCGB increased and then decreased with an increase in the degree of non-uniformity of load (DNL). About 40% of DNL was the inflection point of DNL-UCS curve and when DNL exceeded 40%, the strength decreased in a cliff-like manner;2) A positive correlation was observed between the AE ringing count and UCS during the loading process of the specimen, which was manifested by a higher AE ringing count of the high-strength specimen. 3) Shear cracks gradually increased and failure mode of specimens gradually changed from “X” type dominated by tension cracks to inverted “Y” type dominated by shear cracks with an increase in DNL, and the crack opening displacement at the peak stress decreased and then increased. The crack opening displacement at 40% of the DNL was the smallest. This was consistent with the judgment of crack size based on the AE b-value, i. e., it showed the typical characteristics of “small b-value-large crack and large b-value-small crack”. The research results are of significance for preventing the instability and failure of backfill.

Study of the pressure transient behavior of directional wells considering the effect of non-uniform flux distribution

During the production,the fluid in the vicinity of the directional well enters the wellbore with different rates,leading to non-uniform flux distribution along the directional well.However,in all existing studies,it is oversimplified to a uniform flux distribution,which can result in inaccurate results for field applications.Therefore,this paper proposes a semi-analytical model of a directional well based on the assumption of non-uniform flux distribution.Specifically,the direction well is discretized into a carefully chosen series of linear sources,such that the complex well trajectory can be captured and the nonuniform flux distribution along the wellbore can be considered to model the three-dimensional flow behavior.By using the finite difference method,we can obtain the numerical solutions of the transient flow within the wellbore.With the aid of Green's function method,we can obtain the analytical solutions of the transient flow from the matrix to the wellbore.The complete flow behavior of a directional well is perfectly represented by coupling the above two types of transient flow.Subsequently,on the basis of the proposed model,we conduct a comprehensive analysis of the pressure transient behavior of a directional well.The computation results show that the flux variation along the direction well has a significant effect on pressure responses.In addition,the directional well in an infinite reservoir may exhibit the following flow regimes:wellbore afterflow,transition flow,inclined radial flow,elliptical flow,horizontal linear flow,and horizontal radial flow.The horizontal linear flow can be observed only if the formation thickness is much smaller than the well length.Furthermore,a dip region that appears on the pressure derivative curve indicates the three-dimensional flow behavior near the wellbore.

Effect of non-uniform swelling on coal multiphysics during gas injection: The triangle approach

In current dual porosity/permeability models,there exists a fundamental assumption that the adsorption-induced swelling is distributed uniformly within the representative elementary volume (REV),irrespective of its internal structures and transient processes.However,both internal structures and transient processes can lead to the non-uniform swelling.In this study,we hypothesize that the non-uniform swelling is responsible for why coal permeability in experimental measurements is not only controlled by the effective stress but also is affected by the adsorption-induced swelling.We propose a concept of the swelling triangle composed of swelling paths to characterize the evolution of the non-uniform swelling and serve as a core link in coupled multiphysics.A swelling path is determined by a dimensionless volumetric ratio and a dimensionless swelling ratio.Different swelling paths have the same start and end point,and each swelling path represents a unique swelling case.The swelling path as the diagonal of the triangle represents the case of the uniform swelling while that as the two perpendicular boundaries represents the case of the localized swelling.The paths of all intermediate cases populate inside the triangle.The corresponding relations between the swelling path and the response of coal multiphysics are established by a non-uniform swelling coefficient.We define this method as the triangle approach and corresponding models as swelling path-based ones.The proposed concept and models are verified against a long-term experimental measurement of permeability and strains under constant effective stress.Our results demonstrate that during gas injection,coal multiphysics responses have a close dependence on the swelling path,and that in both future experiments and field predictions,this dependence must be considered.

Persymmetric adaptive polarimetric detection of subspace range-spread targets in compound Gaussian sea clutter

This paper focuses on the adaptive detection of range and Doppler dual-spread targets in non-homogeneous and nonGaussian sea clutter.The sea clutter from two polarimetric channels is modeled as a compound-Gaussian model with different parameters,and the target is modeled as a subspace rangespread target model.The persymmetric structure is used to model the clutter covariance matrix,in order to reduce the reliance on secondary data of the designed detectors.Three adaptive polarimetric persymmetric detectors are designed based on the generalized likelihood ratio test(GLRT),Rao test,and Wald test.All the proposed detectors have constant falsealarm rate property with respect to the clutter texture,the speckle covariance matrix.Experimental results on simulated and measured data show that three adaptive detectors outperform the competitors in different clutter environments,and the proposed GLRT detector has the best detection performance under different parameters.

Pressure transient characteristics of non-uniform conductivity fractured wells in viscoelasticity polymer flooding based on oil-water two-phase flow

Polymer flooding in fractured wells has been extensively applied in oilfields to enhance oil recovery.In contrast to water,polymer solution exhibits non-Newtonian and nonlinear behavior such as effects of shear thinning and shear thickening,polymer convection,diffusion,adsorption retention,inaccessible pore volume and reduced effective permeability.Meanwhile,the flux density and fracture conductivity along the hydraulic fracture are generally non-uniform due to the effects of pressure distribution,formation damage,and proppant breakage.In this paper,we present an oil-water two-phase flow model that captures these complex non-Newtonian and nonlinear behavior,and non-uniform fracture characteristics in fractured polymer flooding.The hydraulic fracture is firstly divided into two parts:high-conductivity fracture near the wellbore and low-conductivity fracture in the far-wellbore section.A hybrid grid system,including perpendicular bisection(PEBI)and Cartesian grid,is applied to discrete the partial differential flow equations,and the local grid refinement method is applied in the near-wellbore region to accurately calculate the pressure distribution and shear rate of polymer solution.The combination of polymer behavior characterizations and numerical flow simulations are applied,resulting in the calculation for the distribution of water saturation,polymer concentration and reservoir pressure.Compared with the polymer flooding well with uniform fracture conductivity,this non-uniform fracture conductivity model exhibits the larger pressure difference,and the shorter bilinear flow period due to the decrease of fracture flow ability in the far-wellbore section.The field case of the fall-off test demonstrates that the proposed method characterizes fracture characteristics more accurately,and yields fracture half-lengths that better match engineering reality,enabling a quantitative segmented characterization of the near-wellbore section with high fracture conductivity and the far-wellbore section with low fracture conductivity.The novelty of this paper is the analysis of pressure performances caused by the fracture dynamics and polymer rheology,as well as an analysis method that derives formation and fracture parameters based on the pressure and its derivative curves.

An improved non-uniform fast Fourier transform method for radio imaging of coronal mass ejections

Radioheliographs can obtain solar images at high temporal and spatial resolution,with a high dynamic range.These are among the most important instruments for studying solar radio bursts,understanding solar eruption events,and conducting space weather forecasting.This study aims to explore the effective use of radioheliographs for solar observations,specifically for imaging coronal mass ejections(CME),to track their evolution and provide space weather warnings.We have developed an imaging simulation program based on the principle of aperture synthesis imaging,covering the entire data processing flow from antenna configuration to dirty map generation.For grid processing,we propose an improved non-uniform fast Fourier transform(NUFFT)method to provide superior image quality.Using simulated imaging of radio coronal mass ejections,we provide practical recommendations for the performance of radioheliographs.This study provides important support for the validation and calibration of radioheliograph data processing,and is expected to profoundly enhance our understanding of solar activities.

Kullback-Leibler Divergence Based ISAC Constellation and Beamforming Design in the Presence of Clutter

Integrated sensing and communication(ISAC)is regarded as a pivotal technology for 6G communication.In this paper,we employ Kullback-Leibler divergence(KLD)as the unified performance metric for ISAC systems and investigate constellation and beamforming design in the presence of clutters.In particular,the constellation design problem is solved via the successive convex approximation(SCA)technique,and the optimal beamforming in terms of sensing KLD is proven to be equivalent to maximizing the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio(SINR)of echo signals.Numerical results demonstrate the tradeoff between sensing and communication performance under different parameter setups.Additionally,the beampattern generated by the proposed algorithm achieves significant clutter suppression and higher SINR of echo signals compared with the conventional scheme.

A general evaluation system for optimal selection performance of radar clutter model

The optimal selection of radar clutter model is the premise of target detection,tracking,recognition,and cognitive waveform design in clutter background.Clutter characterization models are usually derived by mathematical simplification or empirical data fitting.However,the lack of standard model labels is a challenge in the optimal selection process.To solve this problem,a general three-level evaluation system for the model selection performance is proposed,including model selection accuracy index based on simulation data,fit goodness indexs based on the optimally selected model,and evaluation index based on the supporting performance to its third-party.The three-level evaluation system can more comprehensively and accurately describe the selection performance of the radar clutter model in different ways,and can be popularized and applied to the evaluation of other similar characterization model selection.

Robust and Reusable Fuzzy Extractors from Non-Uniform Learning with Errors Problem

Afuzzy extractor can extract an almost uniformrandom string from a noisy source with enough entropy such as biometric data.To reproduce an identical key from repeated readings of biometric data,the fuzzy extractor generates a helper data and a random string from biometric data and uses the helper data to reproduce the random string from the second reading.In 2013,Fuller et al.proposed a computational fuzzy extractor based on the learning with errors problem.Their construction,however,can tolerate a sub-linear fraction of errors and has an inefficient decoding algorithm,which causes the reproducing time to increase significantly.In 2016,Canetti et al.proposed a fuzzy extractor with inputs from low-entropy distributions based on a strong primitive,which is called digital locker.However,their construction necessitates an excessive amount of storage space for the helper data,which is stored in authentication server.Based on these observations,we propose a new efficient computational fuzzy extractorwith small size of helper data.Our scheme supports reusability and robustness,which are security notions that must be satisfied in order to use a fuzzy extractor as a secure authentication method in real life.Also,it conceals no information about the biometric data and thanks to the new decoding algorithm can tolerate linear errors.Based on the non-uniform learning with errors problem,we present a formal security proof for the proposed fuzzy extractor.Furthermore,we analyze the performance of our fuzzy extractor scheme and provide parameter sets that meet the security requirements.As a result of our implementation and analysis,we show that our scheme outperforms previous fuzzy extractor schemes in terms of the efficiency of the generation and reproduction algorithms,as well as the size of helper data.

Radial Basis Approximations Based BEMD for Enhancement of Non-Uniform Illumination Images

An image can be degraded due to many environmental factors like foggy or hazy weather,low light conditions,extra light conditions etc.Image captured under the poor light conditions is generally known as non-uniform illumination image.Non-uniform illumination hides some important information present in an image during the image capture Also,it degrades the visual quality of image which generates the need for enhancement of such images.Various techniques have been present in literature for the enhancement of such type of images.In this paper,a novel architecture has been proposed for enhancement of poor illumination images which uses radial basis approximations based BEMD(Bi-dimensional Empirical Mode Decomposition).The enhancement algorithm is applied on intensity and saturation components of image.Firstly,intensity component has been decomposed into various bi-dimensional intrinsic mode function and residue by using sifting algorithm.Secondly,some linear transformations techniques have been applied on various bidimensional intrinsic modes obtained and residue and further on joining the transformed modes with residue,enhanced intensity component is obtained.Saturation part of an image is then enhanced in accordance to the enhanced intensity component.Final enhanced image can be obtained by joining the hue,enhanced intensity and enhanced saturation parts of the given image.The proposed algorithm will not only give the visual pleasant image but maintains the naturalness of image also.

Wind turbine clutter mitigation using morphological component analysis with group sparsity

To address the problem that dynamic wind turbine clutter(WTC)significantly degrades the performance of weather radar,a WTC mitigation algorithm using morphological component analysis(MCA)with group sparsity is studied in this paper.The ground clutter is suppressed firstly to reduce the morphological compositions of radar echo.After that,the MCA algorithm is applied and the window used in the short-time Fourier transform(STFT)is optimized to lessen the spectrum leakage of WTC.Finally,the group sparsity structure of WTC in the STFT domain can be utilized to decrease the degrees of freedom in the solution,thus contributing to better estimation performance of weather signals.The effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed method are demonstrated by numerical simulations.

Image Non-Uniformity Correction in 3T Gd-EOB-DTPA-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Comparison among Different Software Versions

Background: Non-uniformity in signal intensity occurs commonly in magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, which may pose substantial problems when using a 3T scanner. Therefore, image non-uniformity correction is usually applied. Purpose: To compare the correction effects of the phased-array uniformity enhancement (PURE), a calibration-based image non-uniformity correction method, among three different software versions in 3T Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MR imaging. Material and Methods: Hepatobiliary-phase images of a total of 120 patients who underwent Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MR imaging on the same 3T scanner were analyzed retrospectively. Forty patients each were examined using three software versions (DV25, DV25.1, and DV26). The effects of PURE were compared by visual assessment, histogram analysis of liver signal intensity, evaluation of the spatial distribution of correction effects, and evaluation of quantitative indices of liver parenchymal enhancement. Results: The visual assessment indicated the highest uniformity of PURE-corrected images for DV26, followed by DV25 and DV25.1. Histogram analysis of corrected images demonstrated significantly larger variations in liver signal for DV25.1 than for the other two versions. Although PURE caused a relative increase in pixel values for central and lateral regions, such effects were weaker for DV25.1 than for the other two versions. In the evaluation of quantitative indices of liver parenchymal enhancement, the liver-to-muscle ratio (LMR) was significantly higher for the corrected images than for the uncorrected images, but the liver-to-spleen ratio (LSR) showed no significant differences. For corrected images, the LMR was significantly higher for DV25 and DV26 than for DV25.1, but the LSR showed no significant differences among the three versions. Conclusion: There were differences in the effects of PURE among the three software versions in 3T Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MR imaging. Even if the non-uniformity correction method has the same brand name, correction effects may differ depending on the software version, and these differences may affect visual and quantitative evaluations.

高灵敏微波载荷卫星出舱电缆及舱体屏蔽的EMC设计

针对高灵敏微波载荷卫星对舱板电磁屏蔽效能的高需求与出舱电缆对舱体屏蔽效能巨大破坏性之间的矛盾,文章首先提出航天器理想舱板(无出舱电缆)的电磁屏蔽效能分析方法,给出提高对于1 GHz以上干扰电磁波屏蔽效能的设计原则;然后分析出舱电缆成为影响航天器外舱板对P波段(150 MHz~1 GHz)电磁波屏蔽效能主要因素的机理,给出干扰电流与干扰场强关系计算公式;最后给出出舱电缆及舱体屏蔽的电磁兼容(EMC)设计方法,提出用接地电阻测量法验证出舱电缆屏蔽皮接地的有效性,为总体总装EMC实施找到关键控制手段,并通过整星试验数据确认此方法能有效提升整星EMC试验效率。

基于绝对多普勒的多预警机协同补盲方法

为了实现对责任区全区域、大视角来袭目标的严密预警探测,提出一种基于绝对多普勒的多预警机协同补盲方法。首先,分析目标径向速度的影响因素及其变化规律,推导绝对多普勒的数学表达式,将影响多普勒盲区的复杂多变因素优化调整为目标速度及目标与预警机间的相对位置。其次,运用仿真建模方法,基于绝对多普勒杂波凹口表达式,设计一种以检测点数表征的单预警机多普勒盲区地图绘制方法。然后,在“使得协同中的各预警机或至少有一架预警机的径向速度盲区不落在或尽量少落在重点方向上”的准则牵引下,提出一种图上作业式的多预警机相对位置关系解算方法,完成多预警机的协同部署。最后,通过双预警机圆环拱卫阵形的协同部署实验,验证该方法的有效性和实用性。

初相捷变波形优化设计与信号处理方法研究

捷变波形具备一定的距离和速度模糊抑制能力,同时兼具优良的低截获和抗干扰性能,为雷达系统提供了新的信号处理维度。初相捷变波形相对简单,工程实现难度小,为实现波形设计和信号处理闭环,本文开展了初相捷变波形优化设计与信号处理方法研究。首先,介绍了初相捷变波形的距离选通特性,进而构建了基于距离选通特性的初相捷变波形优化设计模型,并通过Majorization-Minimization算法和牛顿法进行求解。所提算法可采用平方迭代法加快收敛速度,经仿真验证,与随机产生的初相捷变波形相比,所提算法可以显著改善优化后初相捷变波形的距离选通特性。其次,基于初相捷变波形的抗折叠杂波性能,探讨了基于距离选通特性的自适应杂波抑制算法,即利用初相捷变波形空时维导向矢量的距离选通特点,实现分距离段杂波抑制,使得近距主副瓣杂波不会折叠到远距离段,经仿真与实测数据验证,所提算法在强杂波环境下具备良好的远距低速目标探测能力。最后,研究了基于距离选通和交替反演的干扰抑制算法,利用远距支援干扰滞后于目标回波的特点,并基于初相捷变波形的距离选通特性,通过距离段间交替投影实现干扰与目标回波的分距离段重构,经仿真验证,所提算法可以实现对远距支援干扰的有效抑制。

基于杂波拖尾分布的雷达无人机检测性能分析

固定翼无人机(unmanned aerial vehicle,UAV)给雷达低空监视提出了严峻挑战。分析雷达对固定翼UAV的检测性能,可为雷达UAV检测能力评估和技术升级提供重要参考。本文结合雷达探测低空固定翼UAV外场实测数据,首先分析了低空固定翼UAV雷达接收信号幅度统计分布,采用多项式对杂波拖尾导致的虚警概率进行拟合建模;然后,根据虚警概率分布得到雷达检测门限;进而根据UAV回波+杂波幅度分布理论推导得到雷达检测概率;最后,将理论分析性能与传统性能分析结果、雷达实际检测性能进行对比。结果表明,采用多项式对杂波拖尾导致的虚警概率进行单独建模,由此获得的雷达检测门限精度更高,从而使雷达UAV检测性能分析结果较传统性能分析结果更准确。

基于残差单元与注意力门的非对称编解码海杂波抑制网络

针对非均匀海杂波环境下弱小目标检测困难的问题,本文基于复值残差单元和注意力门机制,提出一种用于海杂波抑制的非对称编解码网络(Asymmetric Encoder-Decoder Network,AED-Net).该网络以雷达回波经匹配滤波后得到的复值信号为输入,利用复值残差单元取代常规卷积单元进行弱小目标和海杂波特征的提取,增强网络特征提取能力的同时避免特征信息退化.然后采用注意力门模块将编码路径各模块提取的特征信息分别送入到解码路径对应的模块.最终输出海杂波抑制后的复值信号.由于各注意力门的输入和输出维度可根据网络结构自主选择,该网络设计是一种非对称编解码结构.与典型对称编解码网络UNet相比,复值残差单元与注意力门的引入显著降低了特征信息的冗余度,增强特征信息的提取与传递,提升了海杂波抑制性能.与此同时,复值残差单元的参数规模远小于卷积单元,而注意力门的引入也有效减少解码路径单元的数量,整个网络的参数规模显著减小.基于海杂波实测数据的实验结果表明,与典型复值UNet(Complex Value-UNet,CV-UNet)网络相比,AED-Net的输出信杂比平均提升9 dB,有效工作的最低信杂比降低了3 dB,模型参数量和计算量分别减少57.8%、50%.

矿井探地雷达背景杂波抑制方法综述

随着中国煤炭安全高效智能开采需求的不断提升,矿井探地雷达(ground-penetrating radar, GPR)作为一种高精度物探方法,在煤矿井下探测中有广阔的应用前景。由于探地雷达目标回波信号受系统内部噪声、外部电磁干扰、巷道回波、地下介质不均匀等干扰影响,虚警率较高。尤其对于小尺寸目标,其回波信号为弱信号,容易淹没在强烈的背景杂波中,成为目前制约探地雷达探测性能的主要因素之一,进一步实现井下煤层、构造探测、提高探测精度的关键在于对背景杂波的抑制。从对消法、滤波法、分解法和网络法出发,综述这些杂波抑制方法的基本原理、优缺点及其在探地雷达干扰抑制领域的研究进展,并探讨各种方法的适用范围和发展潜力。杂波抑制技术的不断创新将进一步提高探地雷达的信噪比与灵敏度,使其在煤矿井下探测中发挥更大的应用价值。

基于无监督图互信息最大化的海面小目标异常检测

受到复杂海洋环境的影响,雷达对海面慢速小目标难以实现高性能检测。对于这类目标,传统的基于能量的统计检测方法存在着严重的性能损失。针对这一问题,该文提出了基于互信息最大化框架下的海面小目标检测方法,实现海杂波背景下的无监督目标异常检测任务。首先,考虑到高分辨雷达回波不满足传统神经网络对样本独立同分布的假设,该文从图的角度重新建模数据,利用回波的空时相关特性来构建图拓扑结构。该文提出相对最大节点度并联合7个已有特征作为节点的初始表示向量。接下来,采用图注意力网络作为互信息最大化框架中的编码器学习节点表示向量。最后,使用异常检测算法进行目标检测,并实现虚警可控。经实测数据验证,使用快速凸包学习算法时,相比三特征检测器,所提检测器性能提升了9.2%;相比时频三特征检测器,性能提升了7.9%。当网络输出更高维的表示向量时,使用孤立森林算法的检测器的性能提升了27.4%。

基于WGAN-GP-CNN的海面小目标检测

针对传统基于统计理论的海面小目标检测方法在复杂海面环境中性能不高的问题,该文提出了一种改进的检测方法。首先通过分析海杂波和目标回波的特征,将检测问题转化为特征空间的分类任务。鉴于海面小目标样本数量有限,存在样本不平衡的问题,该文引入了一种基于梯度惩罚的沃瑟斯坦生成对抗网络(Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Network with Gradient Penalty,WGAN-GP)来增强目标数据,从而在数量上平衡目标样本与海杂波样本。同时,对原始WGAN-GP网络的损失函数进行了改进,引入相位损失以确保生成数据能够反映真实数据的相位信息。基于这些数据,进一步提取了生成目标和海杂波的高维特征,并将其送入卷积神经网络(Convolutional Neural Network,CNN)进行训练。为了应对高维特征空间中虚警概率难以控制的问题,对CNN算法进行了改进,通过设置Softmax分类器的阈值,实现了虚警概率可控。最后,借助公开的IPIX雷达数据集进行实验验证,所提的WGAN-GP-CNN检测器在积累时间为1.024 s,虚警概率为0.001时,平均检测概率达到0.8683,具有良好的检测效果。