experimental studies on the changes in resistivity and its anisotropy using electrical resistivity tomography实验研究对电阻率的变化及其各向异性使用电阻率层析成象.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Geophysics Volume 2012, Article ID 142069, 10 pages doi:10.1155/2012/142069 Research Article Experimental Studies on the Changes in Resistivity and Its Anisotropy Using Electrical Resistivity Tomography Tao Zhu, Jian-Guo Zhou, and Jin-Qi Hao Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing 100081, China Correspondence should be addressed to Tao Zhu, zxl tao@ Received 10 March 2011; Revised 10 July 2011; Accepted 8 August 2011 Academic Editor: Sabatino Piscitelli Copyright © 2012 Tao Zhu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Three measuring lines were arranged on one of free planes of magnetite cuboid samples. Apparent resistivity data were acquired by MIR-2007 resistivity meter when samples were under uniaxial compression of servocontrol YAW-5000F loadingmachine in labo- ratory. Then we constructed the residual resistivity images using electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) and plotted the diagrams of apparent resistivity anisotropy coefficient (ARAC) λ ∗ and the included angle α between the major axis of apparent resistivity ani- sotropy ellipse and the axis of load with pressure and effective depth. Our results show that with increasing pressure, resistivity and the decreased (D region) and increased (I region) resistivity regions have complex behaviors, but when pressure is higher than a cer- tain value, the average resistivity decrease and the area of D region expand gradually in all time with the increase of pressure, which may be significant to the monitoring and prediction of earthquake, volcanic activities, and large-scale ge