Thermal conductivity measurements of road construction materials in frozen and unfrozen state

A series of thermal conductivity measurements for various materials was performed in a large climate chamber. The size of the chamber allowed the preparation of relatively large samples in a controlled thermal environment. Three types of thermal sensors were used: (1) two needle probes; (2) a grid of temperature sensors, evenly distributed inside the sample; (3) two additional thermal probes, which were simplified versions of an instrument originally developed for measuring thermal properties of the ice/dust mixture expected to exist at the surface of a comet nucleus. They consist of a series of individual temperature sensors integrated into a glass fibre rod. Each of these sensors can be operated in an active (heated) or passive (only temperature sensing) mode. The following sample materials were used: fine-grained reddish sand, coarse-grained moist sand, gravels with various grain size distributions from < 1 cm up to about 6 cm, and for comparison and calibration pure water (with convection suppressed by adding agar-agar), compact ice, and compact granite. Of particular interest are the measurements with composite samples, like stones embedded in an agar-agar matrix. We describe the evaluation methods and present the results of the thermal conductivity measurements.     

Thermal conductivity of dense hcp iron:Direct measurements using laser heated diamond anvil cell

Thermal conductivity(k) of iron is measured up to about 134 GPa.The measurements are carried out using the single sided laser heated diamond anvil cell,where the power absorbed by a Fe metal foil at hotspot is calculated using a novel thermodynamical method.Thermal conductivity of fee(γ)-Fe increases up to a pressure of about46 GPa.We find thermal conductivity values in the range of 70-80 Wm~(-1)K~(-1)(with an uncertainty of 40%),almost constant with pressure,in the hcp(e) phase of Fe.We attribute the pressure independent k above 46 GPa to the strong electronic correlation effects driven by the electronic topological transition(ETT).We predict a value of thermal conductivity of ε-Fe of about 40±16 Wm~(-1)K~(-1) at the outer core of Earth.     

Thermal conductivity of soft Bangkok clay from laboratory and field measurements

This paper presents the results of a study on the thermal conductivity of a soft saturated clay (Bangkok clay) carried out in relation to an investigation into using thermal treatment to enhance the consolidation process of soft soils. The thermal conductivity of clay specimens was measured in the laboratory using a steady state method (divided bar test) and a transient state method (needle probe test). In general, the laboratory test results show that the thermal conductivity increased with the increase in soil density. However, the needle probe test was found to yield greater thermal conductivities than those derived from the divided bar test. Furthermore, to assess the validity of the laboratory test results, the heat transfer results obtained from a full-scale embankment test that employed prefabricated vertical thermo-drains (PVTD) were simulated numerically using the laboratory determined thermal conductivity values. The numerical analysis indicates that the field thermal conductivity was close to the value obtained from the needle probe test. However, it was also found that the changes in thermal conductivity values obtained from the two laboratory methods did not impact significantly on heat flow behaviour, suggesting that the two methods are acceptable for characterizing the thermal conductivity of soils.     

粗粒料试验缩尺效应的分析研究

为了对粗粒料缩尺效应有全面的认识,对粗粒料缩尺效应的表现形式进行了系统地阐述,可分为密实度缩尺效应和力学特性缩尺效应。以此为准,整理了前人的研究成果,并总结了缩尺效应的表现规律。密实度缩尺效应规律为：最大粒径越大,则最大或最小干密度越大,且这种规律与缩尺方法无关。此规律可从级配、颗粒形状及压实功3个方面进行解释。力学特性缩尺效应规律为：同一干密度制样标准下,抗剪强度和变形模量均随最大粒径增大而减小,这可从密实度和颗粒强度两个方面进行解释;但同一相对密度制样标准下,力学特性缩尺规律不统一,机制不清晰,需进行进一步地研究。     

筑坝粗粒料力学特性的缩尺效应研究

针对筑坝粗粒材料缩尺效应问题,统计分析三板溪、水布垭等大坝填筑料的级配特征,认为以Talbot曲线为原级配可作为高土石坝填筑料的“平均级配”,并将此原级配按现今粗粒料试验制样时最为常用的“混合法”进行缩尺,配制了最大粒径 为20～180 mm的试样。利用PFC2D软件,对各缩尺级配进行了多组、多种数值试验,揭示了各缩尺级配试样干密度极值、初始弹性模量及体积模量等关键物理量与各级配最大粒径的关系。结果表明：缩尺关系与密实度控制标准相关,在同一相对密度条件下各缩尺比试样力学参量为其最大粒径的单调函数,经推求可得原级配具备室内试验级配1.5～1.6倍的抗变形能力;而在同一干密度条件下,力学参量与各最大粒径呈先减小再增加的非单调关系。最后基于细观力学理论对造成缩尺效应的机制进行了解译。利用PFC2D数值试验从一定程度上拓展了仅靠实际三轴试验来研究粗粒料缩尺效应的粒径和思路。     

粗粒料大三轴试验研究进展

目前，粗粒料的抗剪强度与变形特性表达式是在砂土特性研究基础上修改而得到的。实质上，粗粒料具有粒径大、沉陷变形小及颗粒破碎明显等特性而砂土相区别。因此，研究粗粒料工程特性与本构关系时应充分考虑这些固有特性。此外，粗粒料在高压、复杂应力状态及动荷载作用下的工程性质研究也有待加强。文中概括和总结了静力条件下粗粒料大三轴试验研究进展情况，包括抗剪强度、变形特性、本构模型及试验技术方面，并就其中的一些问题进行了讨论。     

Effects of coarse-grained materials on properties of residual soil

Residual soils are generally characterised by a low coefficient of permeability and high shrinkage potential. Several soil improvement methods can be applied to overcome these problems, including mixing the residual soil with coarse-grained soils. In order to study the effects of varying coarse-grained materials on the hydraulic properties and shrinkage characteristics of residual soils, a local residual soil was mixed with different percentages of a gravelly sand and a medium sand. The hydraulic properties and shrinkage potential of the residual soil and the soil mixtures were investigated. The measurements showed that increasing the amount of coarse-grained materials increased the saturated permeability and reduced the shrinkage potential of the residual soil mixture. Increasing the amount of coarse-grained materials in the residual soil produced changes in several key parameters of soil-water characteristic curve (e.g., the slope, the air-entry value, the residual matric suction, and the residual volumetric water content), as well as the unsaturated permeabilities of the soil mixtures.     

考虑应变局部化的粗粒料剪切损伤力学机制

针对粗粒料的应变软化、剪胀等力学特性,通过考虑以剪切带为标志的应变局部化现象,建立了具有广泛适用性的剪切损伤力学模型。损伤模型采用了包体理论中的剪切带数学简化,基于应变等价原理、Weibull分布,推导了粗粒料的应力-应变关系方程。从剪胀作用的机制出发,提出可以描述剪胀弱化的轴向塑性应变和体积塑性应变的非线性函数关系。结合粗粒料三轴压缩试验中的伺服过程,提出了基于遗传算法的损伤模型参数确定方法。通过开展不同围压下的粗粒料三轴压缩试验,对剪切损伤力学模型进行验证,进一步分析了参数演化对粗粒料强度和变形特征的影响。研究结果表明,考虑应变局部化特征的剪切损伤力学模型可以高精度的模拟粗粒料的应变软化和剪胀等特征,有效揭示剪切带内部变形对试样整体宏观变形的影响机制,模型中剪切带参数和围压的关系与粗粒料细观机制一致,计算得到强度组成与颗粒破碎、重组特征较为吻合。     

High-resolution saturated hydraulic conductivity logging of borehole cores using air permeability measurements

Saturated hydraulic conductivity (K _s) is one of the most important parameters determining groundwater flow and contaminant transport in both unsaturated and saturated porous media. The hand-held air permeameter technique was investigated for high-resolution hydraulic conductivity determination on borehole cores using a spatial resolution of ～0.05 m. The suitability of such air permeameter measurements on friable to poorly indurated sediments was tested to improve the spatial prediction of classical laboratory-based K _s measurements obtained at a much lower spatial resolution (～2 m). In total, 368 K _s measurements were made on ～350 m of borehole cores originating from the Campine basin, northern Belgium, while ～5,230 air permeability measurements were performed on the same cores, resulting in a K _s range of seven orders of magnitude. Cross-validation demonstrated that, using air permeameter data as the secondary variable for laboratory based K _s measurements, the performance increased from R ²?=?0.35 for ordinary kriging (laboratory K _s only) to R ²?=?0.61 for co-kriging. The separate treatment of horizontal and vertical hydraulic conductivity revealed considerable anisotropy in certain lithostratigraphical units, while others were clearly isotropic at the sample scale. Air permeameter measurements on borehole cores provide a cost-effective way to improve spatial predictions of traditional laboratory based K _s.     

Thermal conductivity of carbonate rocks

The thermal conductivities of several well-defined carbonate rocks were determined near 40°C. Values range from 1.2 W m^?1C^?1 for a highly porous chalk to 5.1 W m^?1C^?1 for a dolomite. The thermal conductivity of magnesite (5.0) is at the high end of the range, and that for Iceland Spar Calcite (3.2) is near the middle. The values for limestones decrease linearly with increasing porosity. Dolomites of comparable porosity have greater thermal conductivities than limestones.Water-sorbed samples have expected greater thermal conductivities than air-saturated (dry) samples of the same rock. An anomalously large increase in the thermal conductivity of a water-sorbed clayey dolomite over that of the same sample when dry is attributed to the clay fraction, which swells during water inhibition, causing more solid-to-solid contacts within the dolomite framework.Measurements were made with a Colora Thermoconductometer. Chemical and mineralogical analyses were made and tabulated. Porosity of the rocks was determined by mercury porosimetry and also from density measurements. The Iceland Spar Calcite and magnesite were included for reference.     

粗粒料湿化变形后的抗剪强度分析

采用大型三轴仪,对双江口坝壳粗粒料进行了不同围压、不同应力水平的湿化试验研究,并对湿化变形后的抗剪强度进行了分析。各个湿化应力水平下的抗剪强度指标近似相等,其c值在风干态和饱和态之间,更接近于饱和态值,而? 值也有相同规律,其值较固结排气剪略有降低,更接近于饱和态的摩擦角。     

Development of acceptance specifications for tropical gravel paving materials

The ideal standard grading specification for gravels was meant to ensure high density and stability, and specifications on maximum limits of content of fines, liquid limit and plasticity index were meant to control the magnitude of swell of materials in the pavement structure.Experience in Ghana and elsewhere in the tropics has shown that specifications based only on these index properties may be misleading. For example, the strength criterion based upon minimum soaked CBR of 80% for separating sub-base and base gravel materials has been found to be more critical and makes it possible to modify the allowable maximum fines content, liquid limit and plasticity index for the residual gravels studied.Material selection, field compaction (construction) control and long-term field performance studies on two trunk roads were analysed.Limiting values of index properties for separating these gravels into sub-base and base course materials for pavement construction in a moist sub-humid climatic environment was proposed. For example, the maximum fines content, liquid limit and plasticity index for accepting these gravels for base course construction were increased from 10, 25 and 6% to 12.5, 37.5 and 10%, respectively.The importance of using the products of fines content and plasticity parameters for selecting these gravels was also established.     

In situ acoustic measurements of marine gravel threshold and transport

Measurements of the nearbed turbulent current flow and the bedload transport of marine gravel have been made over three tidal cycles. The turbulence in the bottom boundary layer was measured using two electromagnetic current meters, and the gravel transport was measured using a passive acoustic system which monitored the interparticle collision noise of locally mobile material. Visual estimates of bedload were also obtained with an underwater TV camera. The acoustic technique, unlike a conventional bedload sampler, has allowed estimates of transport to be obtained with a temporal resolution comparable with the turbulence data collected. This has enabled a detailed comparison to be made between the turbulent flow and the sediment response to the instantaneous flow conditions. The results of the study show that of the turbulent bursting events which contribute towards the Reynolds stress, only the sweeps and outward interactions play a significant role in the transport of coarse sedimentary material. The measurements show that it is the instantaneous increases in the horizontal turbulent velocity fluctuations that generate excess shear stresses which drive the transport process.     

Laboratory measurements of pivoting angles for applications to selective entrainment of gravel in a current

Important to grain entrainment by a flowing fluid is the pivoting angle of the grain about its contact point with an underlying grain. A series of experiments has been undertaken to determine how this angle depends on grain shape (rollability and angularity), on the ratio of the size of the pivoting grain to those beneath, and on factors such as imbrication. The experiments involved gravel-sized spheres (ball-bearings and marbles), natural pebbles selected for their approximately triaxial ellipsoid shapes, and angular crushed basalt pebbles. The pivoting angles for these grains were measured on an apparatus consisting of a board which can be progressively inclined, the angle of the board being equal to the pivoting angle at the instant of grain movement. The pivoting angles of spheres showed reasonable agreement with a theoretically derived equation, showing much better agreement than in previous studies which utilized sand-sized spheres. A series of measurements with spheres ranging from sand to gravel sizes reveals that the pivoting angles decrease with increasing particle size. Our results are therefore consistent with the earlier studies limited to sand-size spheres. The cause of this size dependence is unknown since moisture and electrostatic binding can be ruled out. Similar size dependencies are also found for the ellipsoidal pebbles and angular gravel. The experiments with ellipsoidal pebbles demonstrated a strong shape dependence for the pivoting angle, being a function of the ratio of the pebble's smallest to intermediate axial diameters. This ratio controls the grain's ability to roll and pivot; with small ratios of these diameters the pebbles tended to slide out of position, whereas with ratios closer to unity (circular cross-section) true pivoting took place and the angles were smaller. Experiments with flat pebbles placed in an imbricated arrangement yielded much larger angles than when the pebbles lay in a horizontal position, the pivoting angle being increased approximately by the imbrication angle. The angular crushed gravel also required high pivoting angles, apparently due to interlocking of the grains resulting from their angularity. Other factors being equal, the measurements of pivoting angles demonstrate that the order of increasing difficulty of entrainment is spheres, ellipsoidal grains, angular grains, and imbricated grains. The results obtained here make possible the quantitative evaluation of these shape effects on grain threshold, as well as evaluation of the selective entrainment of grains from a bed of mixed sizes.     

Local measurements of the polar deformation response in a hollow cylinder apparatus

This paper describes the set-up, calibration and performance of the local instrumentation that measures the deformation response of the test-specimen in a new hollow cylinder apparatus (HCA). Customised, single- and double-axis inclinometers measure the axial and twist deformations of the outer specimen wall surface. Proximity transducers in the cell chamber and the specimen bore cavity measure the radial wall‐surface displacements and precision gearing allows the relocation of the transducers from outside the pressure-cell. The inclinometers were modified (reduced gauge of 45 mm) to suit the smaller-sized test specimen and the more compact pressure cell of the HCA. The instruments were calibrated using an optical table and laser distance-measurement system to achieve the necessary accuracy for strain measurements over the pseudo-elastic range. The calibration in water data for the proximity transducers was non-linear and strongly influenced by the specimen wall curvature. Equations are presented to compute the true torsional shear strain response from the measured inclinometer tilt angle, specimen dimensions and deformation response. External measurements include significant errors due to apparatus compliance, specimen end-restraint and bedding effects, inaccuracies in measuring volume changes and the fact that the deformations are calculated assuming that the entire specimen deforms as a right cylinder.     

青藏高原含砂砾石土壤导热率实验研究

土壤导热率是土壤的基本物理参数之一,也是陆面模式的重要输入量,对研究土壤热传输、水热耦合运移有重要意义。青藏高原由于独特的地理环境备受学者关注,但目前常用的土壤水、热属性参数化方案仅仅考虑了沙土、粉土和黏土,就砂砾石重要性的认识还不足,很少有模式模拟砾石对青藏高原多年冻土和高寒草地的影响。采用便携式热导仪（KD2 Pro,DECAGON,美国）测量了青藏高原玛多和北麓河两地典型土壤在冻结和未冻结状态下不同水分条件时的土壤导热率,分析了砂砾石含量对土壤孔隙度的影响及冻结和未冻结状态下,不同水分条件下砂砾石含量对土壤导热率的影响。结果表明：当含水量高于某一阈值时,含水土壤冻结状态下的导热率高于未冻结状态下的导热率;土壤含水量对土壤导热率影响显著,导热率随着含水量的增加而增大,在含水量较小时变化更明显;砂砾石含量比重多的土壤孔隙度较小,且砂砾石含量越大的土壤在冻结状态下导热率高。以上结果表明,砂砾石对土壤导热率有显著影响,在将来的模式模拟研究中必须考虑砂砾石对土壤热属性的影响,进而提高土壤水热过程模拟的精度。     

Thermal conductivity of short sequences of rock

Numerical models of igneous rock samples provide estimates of the variation in conductivity of discs cut from lengths of core. Ten discs cut from a piece of core have a root mean squared deviation of up to 6 %, depending on quartz content and crystal size. Greater crystal size increases the apparent conductivity of a disc by up to 3.2 % when quartz content is 49 %, but less when quartz content is 30 % or less. Measured conductivity depends on the thickness of the measured disc. When quartz content is low, this difference is well within the normal limits of experimental error, but when quartz content is high, the apparent conductivity will be within the normal limits of experimental error only when the disc is at least 8 mm thick. The estimation of contact resistance between the sample and the bar by using sets of discs of different thickness is unreliable because of variation in mineral content between contiguous discs. Better representation of the conductivity profile is obtained by measuring single discs with an estimation of the contact resistance.     

三维应力状态下粗粒料强度特性试验研究

粗粒料所处的应力状态具有随时间和空间而变的特点,往往处于较复杂的三维应力状态下。通过粗粒料大型真三轴各向等压固结等比例加载试验,研究了不同中主应力系数条件下粗粒料的强度特性。试验结果表明：中主应力对粗粒料的强度有重要影响,三维应力状态下,粗粒料的强度比常规三轴应力状态下有较大提高,大小主应力之差与大主应变关系曲线也更加陡峭;中主应力系数b从0增大到0.25时,破坏时大小主应力之差增加了39%～50%;摩尔–库仑强度参数咬合力c和内摩擦角? 均随着中主应力系数b的增大而增大,其中咬合力c的增长较为显著,特别是b从0增大到0.25时;相同小主应力条件下,b = 0时,破坏偏应力与球应力之比最小,b = 0.25时,破坏应力比达到最大值,随着b的增大破坏应力比又有所减小;相同中主应力系数条件下,随着小主应力的增大,破坏应力比逐渐减小。     

高应力下砾质心墙料切线模量研究

使用高压大型三轴仪,对某300 m级土石坝的砾质土心墙料进行了最高围压5 MPa的三轴试验。试验结果表明砾质土的应力-应变关系符合双曲线关系,抗剪强度包络线呈非线性。根据参数的物理意义,初始模量Ei应在尽可能小的应变范围内取值,最大主应力差 应在大应变范围内取值,且实际工程的应变在1 %左右,建议在?a= 0 %～3 %下取Ei值,在?a = 5 %～15 %下取 值,数据拟合表明建议取值法比传统取值法拟合度高。由于试验的围压范围较大,提出把围压分0.2～1.0 MPa,1.5～3.0 MPa,3.5～5.0 MPa三段分别取切线模量,通过回归证明拟合较好。     

材料状态对粗粒料力学特性影响的试验研究

粗粒料的力学特性与材料状态诸如围压、密度、岩性、级配等因素密切相关。通过粗粒料常规大型三轴各向等压固结排水剪切试验,研究了材料状态对粗粒料力学特性的影响,试验结果表明,初始干密度越小,应力–应变曲线硬化性越强,剪缩性越明显,随着初始干密度的增大,应力–应变曲线的软化性和剪胀性逐渐增强;岩性对粗粒料的力学特性也有明显影响,岩性越硬,应力–应变曲线的软化现象越明显,试样的剪胀性也越大,抗剪强度也越高;级配对粗粒料的力学特性也有重要影响,粗砂和细砾含量相同时,粗砾含量越低,粗粒料抗剪强度越小,体胀变形越大;不同围压的试样孔隙比随着剪切变形的发展逐渐趋向于临界孔隙比,且在平均正应力对数坐标系内呈较好的线性关系;围压、密度、岩性、级配等影响因素下,粗粒料的Rowe剪胀模型参数的归一性都较好,说明Rowe剪胀模型能反映粗粒料的材料状态对其力学特性的影响。