A workfow to Predict the Present-day in-situ Stress Field in Tectonically Stable Regions

Knowledge of the present-day in-situ stress distribution is greatly import-ant for better understanding of conventional and unconventional hydro-carbon reservoirs in many aspects,e.g,reservoir management,wellbore stability asssment,etc.In tectonically stable regions,the present-day in-situ stress field in terms of stress distribution is 1argely controlled by lithological changes,which can be predicted through|a numerical simulation method incorporating specific mechanical properties of the subsurface reservoir.In this study,a workflow was presented to predict the present-day in-situ stress field based on the finite element method(FEM).Sequentially,it consists of:i)building a three-dimensional(3D)geometric framework,i)creating a 3D petrophysical parameter field,11)integrating the geometric framework with petrophysical parameters,iv)setting up a 3D heterogeneous geomechanical model,and finally,v)calculating the present-day in-situ stress distribution and calibrating the prediction with measured stress data,e.g.,results from the extended leak-off tests(XLOTs).The approach was sucessfully applied to the Block W in Ordos Basin of central China.The results indicated that the workflow and models presented in this study could be used as an effective tool to provide insights into stress perturbations in subsurface reservoirs and geological references for subsequent analysis.

A NUMERICAL METHOD ON ESTIMATION OF STABLE REGIONS OF ROTOR SYSTEMS SUPPORTED ON LUBRICATED BEARINGS

The stability degree of periodic solution of nonlinear nonautonomous system was defined by means of the Floquet theory. A method evaluating the stability degree of periodic solution based on transient response was presented by the aid of the concept of dynamic,systems or flows. The critical value of a system was determined by the condition, i.e., its stability degree equals zero. Stable regions of rotor systems with balanced and unbalanced disk supported on lubricated bearings were calculated. The study shows that stable region decreases with the increase of speed for a balanced rotor system and decreases with the increase of unbalance for an unbalanced rotor system. Stable regions of periodic solutions are less than that of equilibrium points under the same systematic conditions.

PROSPECTING FOR LARGE TRIHYDROXY BAUXITE DEPOSITS IN CHINA: THINKING AND PERSPECTIVE

Large trihydroxy bauxite deposit was once considered unavailable in China.With the prospecting think-ing of diwa theory,the author has drawn a contrary conclusion.From the view of the law of progression with transformation between mobile and stable regions and the metallogenic specialization of tectonic elements,he reveals the principal reason why the known bauxite deposits in China are mostly of monohydroxide type,and acquires the way of searching for trihydroxide bauxite deposits.He considers that the residual-mobility period of the diwa stage in the crustal development in South China pocesses-tectonic conditions favourable to the formation of bauxite deposits of this type.He believes that the Cenozoic structural sublayer of the residual-mobility period of the diwa stage developed on the carbonate rock of the Paleozoic platformal structural layer is the preferrential target of prospecting.With this thinking and many years of efforts,we have gained prelimi-nary achievements and have discovered Guigang-type latee-ritic trihydroxied bauxite deposits in Guangxi.In future,by extension and analogy of the thinking,we are likely to find large,high-grade bauxite deposits in its vicinity and to discover weathering-type bauxite deposits with other parent rocks.

Assessment of the sources and transformations of nitrogen in a plain river network region using a stable isotope approach

The great spatial and temporal variability in hydrological conditions and nitrogen（N）processing introduces large uncertainties to the identification of N sources and quantifying N cycles in plain river network regions. By combining isotopic data with chemical and hydrologic measurements, we determined the relative importance of N sources and biogeochemical N processes in the Taige River in the East Plain Region of China. The river was polluted more seriously by anthropogenic inputs in winter than in summer. Manure and urban sewage effluent were the main nitrate（NO-3） sources, with the nitrification of N-containing organic materials serving as another important source of NO-3. In the downstream, with minor variations in hydrological conditions, nitrification played a more important role than assimilation for the decreasing ammonium（NH＋4-N） concentrations.The N isotopic enrichment factors（ε） during NH＋4utilization ranged from- 13.88‰ in March to- 29.00‰ in July. The ratio of the increase in δ^18O and δ^15N of river NO-3in the downstream was 1.04 in January and 0.92 in March. This ratio indicated that NO-3assimilation by phytoplankton was responsible for the increasing δ^15N and δ^18O values of NO-3in winter. The relationships between δ^15N of particulate organic nitrogen and isotopic compositions of dissolved inorganic nitrogen indicated that the phytoplankton in the Taige River probably utilized NH＋4preferentially and mainly in summer, while in winter, NO-3assimilation by phytoplankton was dominant.

Wide-baseline stereo matching based on multiple views

To solve the problem of wide-baseline stereo image matching based on multiple cameras,the paper puts forward an image matching method of combining maximally stable extremal regions (MSER) with Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) . It uses MSER to detect feature regions instead of difference of Gaussian. After fitted into elliptical regions,those regions will be normalized into unity circles and represented with SIFT descriptors. The method estimates fundamental matrix and removes outliers by auto-maximum a posteriori sample consensus after initial matching feature points. The experimental results indicate that the method is robust to viewpoint changes,can reduce computational complexity effectively and improve matching accuracy.

一种基于MSER的遥感影像盲水印算法

实用的遥感影像水印算法对多项指标要求较高,在平衡多项要求的前提下,提出了一种实用的抗几何攻击遥感影像盲水印算法。首先,提取影像中分布均匀且互不重叠的最大稳定极值区域(maximally stable extremal regions,MS⁃ER),并将不规则的MSER拟合为最小矩形区域;以矩形区域的不变质心为圆心,构造不超过该矩形的圆形区域作为特征区域;然后,对特征区域进行基于矩的归一化处理,并对归一化特征区域实施离散小波变换(discrete wavelet trans⁃form,DWT),运用量化嵌入规则将水印嵌入小波变换后的低频系数;最后,依次进行逆小波变换、水印嵌入前后的差值图像反归一化,将反归一化差值图像加性嵌入圆形特征区域,完成水印的嵌入。实验结果表明,水印具有良好的不可感知性;在对含水印的遥感影像进行不同程度的旋转攻击后,提取的水印与原水印相关系数均高于0.85;在平移、缩放、裁剪、加噪、滤波等常规水印攻击实验与组合攻击实验中,提取的水印与原水印相关系数均高于0.9;水印提取过程无需原始影像参与,属于盲水印算法。

Asymptotic Behavior of Nonlinear Parabolic Partial Functional Differential Equations

This paper is devoted to the investigation of the asymptotic behavior for a class of nonlinear parabolic partial functional differential equations. The boundedness and stability of the solutions are established by the upper-lower solution method. Some conditions are obtained by using the semigroup theory, the properties of nonnegative matrices and the techniques of inequalities to determine the asymptotically stable region of the equilibrium.

Real-Time nonlinear predictive controller design for drive-by-wire vehicle lateral stability with dynamic boundary conditions

Due to flexible drive-by-wire technology,vehicle stability control can improve handling and lateral stability under extreme conditions.However,this technology can also increase the probability of random transmission delay.This paper proposes a nonlinear model predictive control(NMPC)strategy to improve vehicle stability and compensate for the random time delay.First,by combining the nonlinear dynamic characteristics and driver behavior,we obtain a stable region of the yaw rate and the sideslip angle under complex driving conditions.Second,an NMPC controller is designed to track the reference values in the identified stable region to improve the handling and lateral stability.Finally,the actuator receives the optimized control sequence and compensates for the random time delay of the transmission channel.CarSim/Simulink simulation and hardware-in-the-loop experiment results show that the proposed controller with dynamic boundary conditions can better track the expected value of the yaw rate and suppress the sideslip angle under low adhesion road conditions.

Robust Video Text Detection with Morphological Filtering Enhanced MSER

Video text detection is a challenging problem, since video image background is generally complex and its subtitles often have the problems of color bleeding, fuzzy boundaries and low contrast due to video lossy compression and low resolution. In this paper, we propose a robust framework to solve these problems. Firstly, we exploit gradient amplitude map （GAM） to enhance the edge of an input image, which can overcome the problems of color bleeding and fuzzy boundaries. Secondly, a two-direction morphological filtering is developed to filter background noise and enhance the contrast between background and text. Thirdly, maximally stable extremal region （MSER） is applied to detect text regions with two extreme colors, and we use the mean intensity of the regions as the graph cuts＇ label set, and the Euclidean distance of three channels in HSI color space as the graph cuts smooth term, to get optimal segmentations. Finally, we group them into text lines using the geometric characteristics of the text, and then corner detection, multi-frame verification, and some heuristic rules are used to eliminate non-text regions. We test our scheme with some challenging videos, and the results prove that our text detection framework is more robust than previous methods.

Geometric attack resistant image watermarking based on MSER

Geometric distortions are simple and effective at- tacks rendering many watermarking methods useless. They make detection and extraction of the embedded watermark difficult or even impossible by destroying the synchroniza- tion between the watermark reader and the embedded water- mark. In this paper, we propose a blind content-based image watermarking scheme against geometric distortions. Firstly, the MSER detector is adopted to extract a set of maximally stable extremal regions which are affine covariant and robust to geometric distortions and common signal processing. Sec- ondly, every original MSER is fitted into an elliptical region that was proved to be affine invariant. In order to achieve rota- tion invariance, an image normalization process is performed to transform the elliptical regions into circular ones. Finally, watermarks are repeatedly embedded into every circular disk by modifying the wavelet transform coefficients. Experimen- tal results on standard benchmark demonstrate that the pro- posed scheme is robust to geometric distortions as well as common signal processing.