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Three dimensional resistivity structure of the Serra da Cangalha crater inferred from magnetotelluric modeling

  • Adepelumi Adekunle Abraham
    • 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.06a
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    • pp.182-188
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    • 2004
  • In view of the circular geometry of the Serra da Cangalha impact crater, we have carried out a 3D forward modeling computation for twenty-five MT data in order to obtain the 3D resistivity forward model for the crater region. The 3D resistivity forward model revealed a five-layer model, showing a significant reduction in the basement resistivity. We suggest that this, perhaps, could be due to the structural disturbances that have been caused by the meteorite impact on the crater about 220 million years ago resulting in brecciation, fracturing, alteration and shocked zone filled with fluids. Also, the sensitivity analysis of the 3D model chosen indicates that 3D models having a crater diameter greater than 151 are inconsistent with our data because the 3D model responses are very sensitive to changes in the diameter beyond 15 km. This analysis also reveals that, the depth limits (for the 3D body) causing the anisotropic effects seen on some of our apparent resistivity curves maximally does not extend beyond 1.2 km depth.

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Maturity of the Crater Rim Walls as a function of the Crater Size

  • SIM, Chae Kyung;Kim, Sungsoo S.;Jeong, Minsup
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.40 no.2
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    • pp.45.3-46
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    • 2015
  • Space weathering agents such as micrometeoroids and solar wind particles continuously age the uppermost regolith of the lunar surface by comminuting as well as darkening and reddening. Among several maturity indices, we investigate median grain size () and optical maturity (OMAT) of the crater rim walls. Crater rim wall is the most immature place among the impact crater features because the vertical mixing process by mass-movement can enhance the gardening of regolith and the supply of immature materials in the deeper layer to the surface. More than 140 simple and complex craters were considered. Both and OMAT values of the inner rim wall initially increase as the crater size increases until ~10-20 km, then decrease. This transition crater size happens to correspond to the transition diameter from simple to complex craters. For larger craters, i.e., complex craters, it is clear that the inner rim wall of the craters formed in recent eras tend to remain fresh and become mature along with time. For the simple crater case, smaller craters are more mature, which is opposite to the case of complex craters. This is thought to be because smaller craters become flattened more quickly, thus have smaller vertical mixing in the regolith due to mass-movement. We will also discuss on the maturity indices of the crater rim walls at high latitudes as a function of the position angle to see the latitude dependence of the space weathering process.

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Evaluation of Impact Resistance of Steel Fiber and Organic Fiber Reinforced Concrete and Mortar

  • Kim, Gyu-Yong;Hwang, Heon-Kyu;Nam, Jeong-Soo;Kim, Hong-Seop;Park, Jong-Ho;Kim, Jeong-Jin
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.377-385
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    • 2012
  • In this study, the Impact resistance of steel fiber and organic fiber reinforced concrete and mortar was evaluated and the improvement in toughness resulting from an increase in compressive strength and mixing fiber for impact resistance on performance was examined. The types of fiber were steel fiber, PP and PVA, and these were mixed in at 0.1, 0.5 and 1.0 vol.%, respectively. Impact resistance is evaluated with an apparatus for testing impact resistance performance by high-speed projectile crash by gas-pressure. For the experimental conditions, Specimen size was $100{\times}100{\times}20$, 30mm ($width{\times}height{\times}thickness$). Projectile diameter was 7 and 10 mm and impact speed is 350m/s. After impact test, destruction grade, penetration depth, spalling thickness and crater area were evaluated. Through this evaluation, it was found that as compressive strength is increased, penetration is suppressed. In addition, as the mixing ratio of fiber is increased, the spalling thickness and crater area are suppressed. Organic fibers have lower density than the steel fiber, and population number per unit area is bigger. As a result, the improvement of impact resistance is more significant thanks to dispersion and degraded attachment performance.

TERRESTRIAL IMPACT CRATERING CHRONOLOGY II: PERIODICITY ANALYSIS WITH THE 2002 DATABASE

  • Moon, Hong-Kyu;Min, Byung-Hee;Lee, Seung-Kim
    • Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.85-85
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    • 2003
  • We examined the hypothesis that the crater formation rate exhibits periodicity, employing data sets of Grieve (1991), Moon et al. (2001), and the Earth Impact Database (2002; DB02). DB02 is known to supercede previous compilations in terms of its accuracy and precision of the ages; it is the first time that this database has been used for periodicity analysis. For data sets comprising impact structures with D$\geq$5km (and also those with $\geq$20km), there is no convincing evidence for periodicities in the crater ages, according to our Fourier analysis. However, we detected two peaks at 16.1Myr and 34.7Myr for craters with D$\geq$30km; we confirm that the age distribution of impact craters with D$\geq$45km has dominant power at 16.1Myr. Thus, we may conjecture a probable periodic shower of Earth impactors with sizes d$\geq$1.5km. In addition, we found that the selection of data sets, the lower limits on the ages and diameters of impact craters, as well as the accuracy and precision of the ages, all constitute crucial factors in reconstructing the impact cratering history of the Earth.

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High-velocity impact of large caliber tungsten projectiles on ordinary Portland and calcium aluminate cement based HPSFRC and SIFCON slabs -Part II: numerical simulation and validation

  • Gulkan, P.;Korucu, H.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.40 no.5
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    • pp.617-636
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    • 2011
  • We present the numerical implementation, simulation, and validation of the high-velocity impact experiments that have been described in the companion article. In this part, numerical investigations and simulations performed to mimic the tests are presented. The experiments were analyzed by the explicit integration-based software ABAQUS for improved simulations. Targets were modeled with a damaged plasticity model for concrete. Computational results of residual velocity and crater dimensions yielded acceptable results.

Fracture Property of Concrete on Spherical and Flat Nose Shape Projectile Impact (반구형과 평탄형 선단 비상체의 충돌을 받는 콘크리트의 파괴특성)

  • Lee, Sang-Kyu;Kim, Gyu-Yong;Kim, Hong-Seop;Son, Min-Jae;Nam, Jeong-Soo
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.20 no.6
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    • pp.98-105
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    • 2016
  • In this study, projectiles with 2 kinds of nose shape: spherical and flat were impacted into normal concrete and fiber reinforced concrete panels. The fracture depth and form, crater diameter, tensile strain at rear face were evaluated. It was confirmed that smaller projectile nose areas resulted in deeper penetrations associated with concentrated impact forces and small front-face crater diameters in impact test. Conversely, larger projectile nose areas resulted in shallower penetrations and larger front-face fracture diameters. Similar front-face failure and strain distribution relationships based on the projectile nose shape were observed for normal and fiber-reinforced concrete although the rear-face tensile strain and scabbing were significantly reduced by the fiber reinforcement. In addition, a direct relationship was confirmed between the penetration depth based on the projectile nose shape and the tensile strain on the rear face. Thus the impact strain behavior is required to predict the scabbing behavior with penetration depth.

Evaluation of Impact resistance of UHPC Under Repeated Impact (반복충격을 받은 UHPC의 내충격성능 평가)

  • Jeong, Min-Seung;Kim, Gyu-Yong;Lee, Sang-Kyu;Hwang, Eui-Chul;Kim, Gyeong-Tae;Nam, Jeong-Soo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2018.11a
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    • pp.161-162
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    • 2018
  • In this study, it evaluate the impact resistance of UHPC by repeated impact. smooth steel fiber and polyvinyl alcohol fiber were reinforced in UHPC respectively. Overall, the impact resistance of the specimens reinforced with 0.4vol.% PVA fiber was high, and the crater diameter was small in specimens using 13mm fiber. When 19 mm steel fiber is used, the fracture depth is small due to the increase of macro crack resistance compared with other specimens. On the other hand, in the case of the fracture area, it is considered that the use of the fiber of 13 mm causes an increase in the stress dispersion effect to occur small.

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High-Velocity Impact Experiment on Impact Resistance of Steel Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Panels with Wire Mesh (와이어매쉬와 강섬유로 보강된 콘크리트 패널의 내충격성 규명을 위한 고속충격실험)

  • Kim, Sang-Hee;Hong, Sung-Gul;Yun, Hyun-Do;Kim, Gyu-Yong;Kang, Thomas H.K.
    • Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.103-113
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    • 2015
  • This paper studies impact performance of wire-mesh and steel fiber-reinforced concrete based on high-velocity impact experiments using hard spherical balls. In this experimental study, panel specimens were tested with various parameters such as steel fiber volume fraction, presence/absence of wire mesh, panel thickness, impact velocity, and aggregate size for the comparison of impact resistance performance for each specimen. While improvement of the impact resistance for reducing the penetration depth is barely affected with steel fiber volume fraction, the impact resistance to scabbing and perforation is improved substantially. This was due to the fact that the steel fiber had bridging effects in concrete matrix. The wire mesh helped minimizing the crater diameter of front and back face and enhanced the impact resistance to scabbing and perforation; however, the wire mesh did not affect the penetration depth. The wire mesh also reduced the bending deformation of the specimen with wire mesh, though some specimens had splitting bond failure on the rear face. Additionally, use of 20 mm aggregates is superior to 8 mm aggregates in terms of penetration depth, but for reducing the crater diameter on front and back faces, the use of 8 mm aggregates would be more efficient.

A Study on High Velocity Impact Phenomena by a Long Rod Penetrator (긴 관통자에 의한 고속충돌현상 연구)

  • 이창현;최준홍;홍성인
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.573-583
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    • 1994
  • In this study, the shock characteristics for high velocity impact phenomena during the initial shock state by the long rod penetrator are calculated. From these results we re-analyze the one-dimensional hydrodynamic penetration theory by introducing the effective area ratio calculated from the mushroomed strain which is dependent on impact velocity. Calculated penetration depth and mushroomed strain show good agreement with high velocity impact experimental data. In addition we visualize the shock wave propagation in a transparent acryle block.

The ROP mechanism study in hard formation drilling using local impact method

  • Liu, Weiji;Zhu, Xiaohua;Zhou, Yunlai;Mei, Liu;Meng, Xiannan;Jiang, Cheng
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.68 no.1
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    • pp.95-101
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    • 2018
  • The low rate of penetration and short lifetime of drilling bit served as the most common problems encountered in hard formation drilling, thus leading to severe restriction of drilling efficiency in oil and gas reservoir. This study developed a new local impact drilling method to enhance hard formation drilling efficiency. The limitation length formulas of radial/lateral cracks under static indentation and dynamic impact are derived based on the experimental research of Marshall D.B considering the mud column pressure and confining pressure. The local impact rock breaking simulation model is conducted to investigate its ROP raising effect. The results demonstrate that the length of radial/lateral cracks will increase as the decrease of mud pressure and confining pressure, and the local impact can result in a damage zone round the impact crater which helps the rock cutting, thus leading to the ROP increase. The numerical results also demonstrate the advantages of local impact method for raising ROP and the vibration reduction of bit in hard formation drilling. This study has shown that the local impact method can help raising the ROP and vibration reduction of bit, and it may be applied in drilling engineering.