Several experimental methods have been proposed for consolidation test such as: constant loading rate, constant gradient and
constant rate of strain (CRS). Unfortunately, there are no unique criteria for performing the CRS consolidation test. Also,
there are considerable differences among the standards proposed for the test. In the present paper, authors have tried to
find the reasons for differences among standards, by studying the basic assumptions made on the characteristics of the pore
water flow during consolidation process. In the course of study, CRS consolidation tests were carried out under different
strain rates on remolded samples. The results of the tests have indicated that the Darcy’s law is not valid throughout the
CRS test and therefore, any consolidation equation based on Darcy’s law would not provide accurate results. The results of
the current experiments also showed that with regard to the applied strain rates, there are three different flow regimes governing
the process named as: pre-linear (non-Darcy flow), linear (Darcy flow) and post-linear (non-Darcy flow). Experimental results
also showed that distinction between boundaries of linear and nonlinear flow is possible from the excess pore pressure developed
during the tests. 相似文献
The capacity of 21 major fields containing more than 95% of the North Slope of Alaska’s oil were investigated for CO2 storage by injecting CO2 as an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) agent. These fields meet the criteria for the application of miscible and immiscible CO2-EOR methods and contain about 40 billion barrels of oil after primary and secondary recovery. Volumetric calculations from this study indicate that these fields have a static storage capacity of 3 billion metric tons of CO2, assuming 100% oil recovery, re-pressurizing the fields to pre-fracturing pressure and applying a 50% capacity reduction to compensate for heterogeneity and for water invasion from the underlying aquifer. A ranking produced from this study, mainly controlled by field size and fracture gradient, identifies Prudhoe, Kuparuk, and West Sak as possessing the largest storage capacities under a 20% safety factor on pressures applied during storage to avoid over-pressurization, fracturing, and gas leakage. Simulation studies were conducted using CO2 Prophet to determine the amount of oil technically recoverable and CO2 gas storage possible during this process. Fields were categorized as miscible, partially miscible, and immiscible based on the miscibility of CO2 with their oil. Seven sample fields were selected across these categories for simulation studies comparing pure CO2 and water-alternating-gas injection. Results showed that the top two fields in each category for recovery and CO2 storage were Alpine and Point McIntyre (miscible), Prudhoe and Kuparuk (partially miscible), and West Sak and Lisburne (immiscible). The study concludes that 5 billion metric tons of CO2 can be stored while recovering 14.2 billion barrels of the remaining oil. 相似文献
The use of shear wave velocity (Vs) measurements as an in situ test for evaluation of liquefaction potential has increased substantially due to its advantages. Relatively large numbers of studies have been performed to establish the correlation between Vs and liquefaction resistance (CRR) of clean sands. Usually, natural sands contain silt and/or clay, and previous studies have shown that both the amount of fines and their nature influence the values of CRR as well as Vs. Therefore, the CRR–Vs correlations may also be affected by fines content and type of sandy soils. However, effect of fines content and especially fines type of sandy soils on the correlation between Vs and CRR is inadequately addressed in the literature. In this study, cyclic triaxial and bender element tests were conducted on samples of sand containing various amounts of different types of fines, and the effects of fines on the values of CRR and Vs are investigated. The results show that G0 and CRR reduce even when small amounts of fines are added to sand. Therefore, use of plasticity index (PI) of the fines fraction is better than the PI of the overall soil when trying to assess the effects of fines. Using obtained experimental data as well as the established semiempirical CRR–Vs relationship, the CRR–Vs correlation was developed for all the tested soils, and the effect of fines type on the correlation is also examined. Based on the results obtained in this study, CRR–Vs correlation is affected by both the amount and the plasticity of the fines present in the sand, and this correlation is soil specific. 相似文献
Theoretical and Applied Climatology - Temperature and precipitation are the basic elements of climate, and their variation can change the water demands of different uses. In this study, the trend... 相似文献
ABSTRACTGround improvement techniques are inevitable for weak soils that cannot endure the design load imposed by superstructures. Deep mixing technique (DMT) as one of these methods is promising and effective when a deep soil layer with low bearing capacity is encountered. Such deposits are quite common in the South-west of Iran where the studied site is located. In order to validate the influence of DMT on the enhancement of strength, both in-situ and laboratory tests were conducted. Afterwards, a parametric study was carried out to investigate the influence of key factors including cement content, water–cement ratio, curing time and plasticity index (PI) on the performance of DMT. In summary, a total of 192 different conditions were examined in this study by using two methods of 3D plotting and artificial neural networks (ANNs) as the optimisation tool. Results proved the importance of water–cement ratio as a key parameter in DMT. Based on the trained networks, ANN was revealed to give satisfactory predictions on the strength of an improved soil with different admixture conditions. More important, the optimisation made by ANN could determine the specific values for selected key admixture factors to reach a desired strength level with the coefficient of determination higher than 0.85. 相似文献
In this paper, we study the problem of massless particle creation in a flat, homogeneous and isotropic universe in the framework of \(f(G)\) gravity. The Bogolyubov coefficients are calculated for the accelerating power-law solutions of the model in a matter dominated universe, from which the total number of created particle per unit volume of space can be obtained. It is proved that the total particle density always has a finite value. Therefore, the Bogolyubov transformations are well-defined and the Hilbert spaces spanned by the vacuum states at different times are unitarily equivalent. We find that the particles with small values of the mode \(k\) are produced in the past and particles with large values of \(k\) are produced only in the future. The negative pressure resulting from the gravitational particle creation is also determined. It is then argued that this pressure even in the presence of energy density and thermal pressure may affect significantly the cosmic expansion. 相似文献
Zeolites are hydrated alumino-silicates of alkali metals and alkaline earth cations which occur in sedimentary and volcano-sedimentary terrains. In this study, visible–near-infrared and shortwave infrared data of ASTER were evaluated in prospecting for zeolite in part of the green tuff belt of the Alborz Mountains, northern Iran. The study area is dominantly covered by sedimentary and volcano-sedimentary rocks, in which zeolite minerals occur only in the Late Eocene vitric tuff. Principal components (PC) analysis and spectral information divergence (SID) were used to discriminate and map the sedimentary and volcano-sedimentary units and the zeolite-rich areas, respectively. The X-ray diffraction and reflectance spectroscopy results indicated that clinoptilolite is the major type of zeolite mineral in this area. Comparing a color composite image, produced from PC images 1–3–5 as R–G–B, with the published geological map and the field investigations indicated that major sedimentary and volcano-sedimentary units as well as their alluvial deposits were discriminated efficiently. Results of the SID method, using an image-derived spectrum of clinoptilolite as a reference, showed good agreements with the field observations. The results of this study indicated that ASTER data are useful for discriminating various sedimentary and volcano-sedimentary units as well as clinoptilolite-type zeolite-rich areas in arid and semiarid terrains.