scholarly journals Experimental Investigation on Time-Frequency Characteristics of Microseismic Signals in the Damage Evolution Process of Coal and Rock

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 809
Author(s):  
Wei Yang ◽  
Chengwu Li ◽  
Rui Xu ◽  
Xunchang Li

The deformation and failure of coal and rock materials is the primary cause of many engineering disasters. How to accurately and effectively monitor and forecast the damage evolution process of coal and rock mass, and form a set of prediction methods and prediction indicators is an urgent engineering problems to be solved in the field of rock mechanics and engineering. As a form of energy dissipation in the deformation process of coal and rock, microseismic (MS) can indirectly reflect the damage of coal and rock. In order to analyze the relationship between the damage degree of coal and rock and time-frequency characteristics of MS, the deformation and fracture process of coal and rock materials under different loading modes was tested. The time-frequency characteristics and generation mechanism of MS were analyzed under different loading stages. Meanwhile, the influences of properties of coal and rock materials on MS signals were studied. Results show that there is an evident mode cutoff point between high-frequency and low-frequency MS signals. The properties of coal and rock, such as the development degree of the original fracture, particle size and dense degree have a decisive influence on the amplitude, frequency, energy and other characteristic parameters of MS signals. The change of MS parameters is closely related to material damage, but has no strong relation with the loading rate. The richness of MS signals before the main fracture depends on the homogeneity of materials. With the increase of damage, the energy release rate increases, which can lead to the widening of MS signals spectrum. The stiffness and natural frequency of specimens decreases correspondingly. Meanwhile, the main reason that the dominant frequency of MS detected by sensors installed on the surface of coal and rock materials is mainly low-frequency is friction loss and the resonance effect. In addition, the spectrum and energy evolution of MS can be used as a characterization method of the damage degree of coal and rock materials. Furthermore, the results can provide important reference for prediction and early warning of some rock engineering disasters.

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 1150 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Kolaitis ◽  
P. Papadimiriou ◽  
I. Kassaras ◽  
K. Makropoulos

Two arrays equipped with broadband sensors were installed for a period of 10 months, in order to study the seismic activity in the area of Santorini (Thira) volcano. During these periods, about 330 earthquakes were recorded and located within a radius of 50 km from the center of the caldera. An iterative damped traveltime inversion procedure yielded a local 1-D Ρ-wave velocity model and improved locations with an accuracy better than 5 Km in both horizontal and vertical components for 135 earthquakes. Those are mainly distributed within a depth range 5-18 Km, in the vicinity of the submarine Kolumbo Reef (NE of Santorini Island). Signal analysis of the recorded volcanic earthquakes including typical Fourier transformations and several operations in the time-frequency domain, allowed their dominant frequency determination and their classification into three groups based on waveform appearance and frequency content: (1) highfrequency events; (2) low-frequency events; and (3) volcanic tremor. Frequencytime analysis of tremor, detected at three stations, revealed two kinds of harmonic tremor with one sharp peak, at 3-5 Hz and 8.5-10 Hz.


Fractals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (06) ◽  
pp. 1950100 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZHIBO ZHANG ◽  
ENYUAN WANG ◽  
YINGHUA ZHANG ◽  
SHUAI YANG ◽  
XIANAN LIU ◽  
...  

Ultrasonic receiving wave can reflect physical properties and damage degree of coal samples. Therefore, it is of great significance to deeply study the parameters of ultrasonic. In this paper, time-domain characteristics of receiving wave are analyzed systematically, which present good correlation with stress. The frequency spectrum of receiving wave is obtained using Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), and peak frequency and centroid frequency are calculated. During the entire loading process, peak frequency fluctuates around 110[Formula: see text]kHz, but corresponding centroid frequency decreases obviously at the end stage of loading. According to multifractal theory, the multifractal spectrum of wavelet packet energy characteristics is calculated. The results show that wavelet packet energy distribution has obvious multifractal characteristics, and multifractal parameter [Formula: see text] presents downward trend before coal samples buckling failure. Based on damage process of the coal samples, the reason of change in [Formula: see text] value is related to damage degree of coal samples. This research is of great significance for understanding the deformation and failure process of coal samples using ultrasonic technology.


2014 ◽  
Vol 533 ◽  
pp. 181-186
Author(s):  
Ming Sheng Zhao ◽  
En An Chi ◽  
Qiang Kang ◽  
Tie Jun Tao

In blasting excavation of shallow tunnel, the surface vibration of excavated tunnel can be amplified due to effect of hollow. This effect is an important factor for safety of surface buildings. Based on the measured data of one tunnel excavation project, combining wavelet analysis and AOK time-frequency distribution method, the surface vibration signals in front and rear position of working face are processed into different frequency bands. Taking PPV, dominant frequency, d7 (7.8125-15.625 Hz) band energy ratio and d7 (7.8125-15.625 Hz) band energy duration as indexes, the effect of hollow on time-frequency characteristics of surface vibration signal is studied in this article. The results show that, affected by the hollow in excavated region, the PPV and dominant frequency increase, and the d7 (7.8125-15.625 Hz) band energy shows fluctuant ratio of total energy and an increase of band energy duration. The results show that the hollow influence on the frequency characteristics of the surface vibration signals comprehensively, and also provide an analytical basis for anti-vibration and vibration reduction study from the angle of energy.


2013 ◽  
Vol 284-287 ◽  
pp. 3115-3119
Author(s):  
Wei Song ◽  
Jia Hui Zuo ◽  
Peng Cheng Hu

The high accuracy time-frequency representation of non-stationary signals is one of the key researches in seismic signal analysis. Low-frequency part of the seismic data often has a higher frequency resolution, on the contrary it tends to have lower frequency resolution in the high frequency part. It’s difficult to fine characterize the time-frequency variation of non-stationary seismic signals by conventional time-frequency analysis methods due to the limitation of the window function. Therefore based on the Ricker wavelet, we put forward the matching pursuit seismic trace decomposition method. It decomposes the seismic records into a series of single component atoms with different centre time, dominant frequency and energy, by making use of the Wigner-Ville distribution, has the time-frequency resolution of seismic signal reach the limiting resolution of the uncertainty principle and skillfully avoid the impact of interference terms in conventional Wigner-Ville distribution.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Hongwei Mu ◽  
Dazhao Song ◽  
Shan Yin ◽  
Xueqiu He ◽  
Liming Qiu ◽  
...  

It is vital to understand the electromagnetic radiation’s time-frequency characteristics in the process of coal and rock failure with different joint angles in order to reveal the generation mechanism of the electromagnetic radiation (EMR) and improve the accuracy of EMR early warning. We studied the time-frequency characteristics of EMR signals of coal samples with different joint angles. The study finds that, (1) with the increase of joint angle, the failure time and peak load of samples decrease first and increase later, and the postpeak failure time decreases gradually. The EMR counts’ peak value showed a slow rise, a sharp rise, and a slow rise in the three intervals of α = 0° to 45°, 45° to 60°, and 60° to 90°, respectively. The accumulated EMR counts showed a steady upward trend. The duration of the EMR waveform, the dominant frequency of the EMR, and the peak number of the frequency spectrum of coal samples are on the rise. (2) As the joint angle increases, the samples’ failure mode changes from the stage fracture dominated by tension cracks to the rapid fracture with the coexistence of shear and tension cracks and finally to the burst fracture which produces a large number of fragments. This is also the main reason for the difference of the EMR generation mechanism and the signal of samples with different joint angles. (3) According to the experimental results, we established the modified formulas for calculating the EMR threshold value and deviation of coal and rock with joints under different stress environments and revealed that the longer the EMR waveform duration, the higher the dominant frequency, and the more the number of spectrum peaks, the greater the burst risk of coal and rock.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 231
Author(s):  
Weiheng Jiang ◽  
Xiaogang Wu ◽  
Yimou Wang ◽  
Bolin Chen ◽  
Wenjiang Feng ◽  
...  

Blind modulation classification is an important step in implementing cognitive radio networks. The multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technique is widely used in military and civil communication systems. Due to the lack of prior information about channel parameters and the overlapping of signals in MIMO systems, the traditional likelihood-based and feature-based approaches cannot be applied in these scenarios directly. Hence, in this paper, to resolve the problem of blind modulation classification in MIMO systems, the time–frequency analysis method based on the windowed short-time Fourier transform was used to analyze the time–frequency characteristics of time-domain modulated signals. Then, the extracted time–frequency characteristics are converted into red–green–blue (RGB) spectrogram images, and the convolutional neural network based on transfer learning was applied to classify the modulation types according to the RGB spectrogram images. Finally, a decision fusion module was used to fuse the classification results of all the receiving antennas. Through simulations, we analyzed the classification performance at different signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs); the results indicate that, for the single-input single-output (SISO) network, our proposed scheme can achieve 92.37% and 99.12% average classification accuracy at SNRs of −4 and 10 dB, respectively. For the MIMO network, our scheme achieves 80.42% and 87.92% average classification accuracy at −4 and 10 dB, respectively. The proposed method greatly improves the accuracy of modulation classification in MIMO networks.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 480
Author(s):  
Jingang Zhan ◽  
Hongling Shi ◽  
Yong Wang ◽  
Yixin Yao

Ice sheet changes of the Antarctic are the result of interactions among the ocean, atmosphere, and ice sheet. Studying the ice sheet mass variations helps us to understand the possible reasons for these changes. We used 164 months of Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite time-varying solutions to study the principal components (PCs) of the Antarctic ice sheet mass change and their time-frequency variation. This assessment was based on complex principal component analysis (CPCA) and the wavelet amplitude-period spectrum (WAPS) method to study the PCs and their time-frequency information. The CPCA results revealed the PCs that affect the ice sheet balance, and the wavelet analysis exposed the time-frequency variation of the quasi-periodic signal in each component. The results show that the first PC, which has a linear term and low-frequency signals with periods greater than five years, dominates the variation trend of ice sheet in the Antarctic. The ratio of its variance to the total variance shows that the first PC explains 83.73% of the mass change in the ice sheet. Similar low-frequency signals are also found in the meridional wind at 700 hPa in the South Pacific and the sea surface temperature anomaly (SSTA) in the equatorial Pacific, with the correlation between the low-frequency periodic signal of SSTA in the equatorial Pacific and the first PC of the ice sheet mass change in Antarctica found to be 0.73. The phase signals in the mass change of West Antarctica indicate the upstream propagation of mass loss information over time from the ocean–ice interface to the southward upslope, which mainly reflects ocean-driven factors such as enhanced ice–ocean interaction and the intrusion of warm saline water into the cavities under ice shelves associated with ice sheets which sit on retrograde slopes. Meanwhile, the phase signals in the mass change of East Antarctica indicate the downstream propagation of mass increase information from the South Pole toward Dronning Maud Land, which mainly reflects atmospheric factors such as precipitation accumulation.


2019 ◽  
Vol 219 (2) ◽  
pp. 975-994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Gribler ◽  
T Dylan Mikesell

SUMMARY Estimating shear wave velocity with depth from Rayleigh-wave dispersion data is limited by the accuracy of fundamental and higher mode identification and characterization. In many cases, the fundamental mode signal propagates exclusively in retrograde motion, while higher modes propagate in prograde motion. It has previously been shown that differences in particle motion can be identified with multicomponent recordings and used to separate prograde from retrograde signals. Here we explore the domain of existence of prograde motion of the fundamental mode, arising from a combination of two conditions: (1) a shallow, high-impedance contrast and (2) a high Poisson ratio material. We present solutions to isolate fundamental and higher mode signals using multicomponent recordings. Previously, a time-domain polarity mute was used with limited success due to the overlap in the time domain of fundamental and higher mode signals at low frequencies. We present several new approaches to overcome this low-frequency obstacle, all of which utilize the different particle motions of retrograde and prograde signals. First, the Hilbert transform is used to phase shift one component by 90° prior to summation or subtraction of the other component. This enhances either retrograde or prograde motion and can increase the mode amplitude. Secondly, we present a new time–frequency domain polarity mute to separate retrograde and prograde signals. We demonstrate these methods with synthetic and field data to highlight the improvements to dispersion images and the resulting dispersion curve extraction.


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