Investigation into Relationships Between Cerchar Hardness Index and Some Mechanical Properties of Coal Measure Rocks

This paper examines the relationships between Cerchar hardness index (CHI) and some mechanical properties of coal measure rocks in Zonguldak Hard Coal Basin. Some index properties (Cerchar hardness index, Shore scleroscope hardness, in situ Schmidt rebound hardness and point load strength) and strength (uniaxial compressive strength and Brazilian tensile strength) properties of 29 sedimentary rock samples are determined. Then, relationships between (CHI) and strength as well as and some other index values are evaluated using statistical methods. Linear relationships are found between CHI and uniaxial compressive strength, Schmidt rebound hardness. Power relationships are determined between CHI and Shore scleroscope hardness, diametral point load strength, point load strength anisotropy index. Besides, CHI tests are performed by means of bits having tip angles of 99° and 125° and excellent linear relationships are identified between them.     

土与钢材料接触面性能的试验研究

利用应变控制式直剪仪,对上海土与钢材料接触面进行直剪试验,研究了土与钢材料接触面内的变形特性,分析了法向应力对接触面剪切破坏特性的影响。分析结果表明,土与钢材料接触面内剪应力与剪切位移呈双曲线关系,并且法向应力影响剪切应力的发挥。     

Multiscale Parameterization of Petrophysical Properties for Efficient History-Matching

The prediction of fluid flows within hydrocarbon reservoirs requires the characterization of petrophysical properties. Such characterization is performed on the basis of geostatistics and history-matching; in short, a reservoir model is first randomly drawn, and then sequentially adjusted until it reproduces the available dynamic data. Two main concerns typical of the problem under consideration are the heterogeneity of rocks occurring at all scales and the use of data of distinct resolution levels. Therefore, referring to sequential Gaussian simulation, this paper proposes a new stochastic simulation method able to handle several scales for both continuous or discrete random fields. This method adds flexibility to history-matching as it boils down to the multiscale parameterization of reservoir models. In other words, reservoir models can be updated at either coarse or fine scales, or both. Parameterization adapts to the available data; the coarser the scale targeted, the smaller the number of unknown parameters, and the more efficient the history-matching process. This paper focuses on the use of variational optimization techniques driven by the gradual deformation method to vary reservoir models. Other data assimilation methods and perturbation processes could have been envisioned as well. Last, a numerical application case is presented in order to highlight the advantages of the proposed method for conditioning permeability models to dynamic data. For simplicity, we focus on two-scale processes. The coarse scale describes the variations in the trend while the fine scale characterizes local variations around the trend. The relationships between data resolution and parameterization are investigated.     

Computing Petrophysical Properties in Porous Rocks Using a Boundary-Element Technique

An efficient numerical technique has been used to compute the deformation of pores of arbitrary shape embedded in a homogeneous elastic solid under the influence of applied stresses. The scheme is based on the boundary-element method, where single linear elements are used to generate solutions that satisfy prescribed boundary conditions. These solutions can be employed to describe the behavior of elastic moduli and other petrophysical properties in porous rocks. The numerical algorithm allows computation of the stress field induced by the pores in the solid. In this way, the effect of the interactions between pores caused by stress concentrations can be studied from a quantitative point of view. To test the algorithm, some interesting results are compared with existing models, for special cases available in the literature. Also, a model for the compressibility and porosity of sedimentary rocks, as a function of applied hydrostatic stress, was generated by mixing some realistic pore geometries generated with the numerical algorithm. Results were in good agreement with data obtained from selected samples of sandstones.     

Relationships Between Abrasion Index and Shape Properties of Progressively Abraded Dolerite Railway Ballasts

Sub-angular-shaped aggregates are used as rail foundation ballasts and must remain sub-angular during their service life time to maintain particle–particle interlocking, in order to ensure the stability of the rail line and prevent accidents by derailment. Here, the screening of dolerite quarry aggregates for use as railway foundation ballasts was investigated by employing simple digital image and chart methods. The average particle size (d ₅₀), flakiness index (FI), Los Angeles abrasion index (LAAI), sphericity (SPH) and roundness (RND) were determined for two batches of dolerite ballasts from the Rooikraal quarry in Johannesburg and Ngagane quarry in Newcastle. Thirty samples from each of the two batches of ballast were analysed. The ballasts were progressively abraded using a Los Angeles abrasion device and were analysed after each cycle of abrasion. A decrease in d ₅₀ and an increase in FI with increased number of abrasion cycles were observed for both batches of dolerite ballast. The difference in the chart and digital image values of RND and SPH were marginal before abrasion; however, these differences increased with each abrasion cycle. The LAAI, d ₅₀, mean RND and mean SPH correlated significantly and were found to have high regression coefficients. Thus, statistical models are proposed for the non-destructive routine screening of in-place ballasts in order to track marginal changes in aggregate shapes, facilitate ballast replacement programmes and avoid rail line instability.     

Development of Statistical Models to Predict the Mechanical Properties of Some Metamorphic Rocks from P-Wave Velocity and Certain Physical Properties

Geotechnical and Geological Engineering - Strength and elastic properties of rocks have vital importance for the design of structures in several rock engineering projects. Additionally, these...     

Petrophysical Properties of Natural Gas Hydrates-Bearing Sands and Their Sedimentology in the Nankai Trough

Abstract. The Nankai Trough parallels the Japanese Island, where extensive BSRs have been interpreted from seismic reflection records. High resolution seismic surveys and drilling site-survey wells conducted by the MTI in 1997, 2001 and 2002 have revealed subsurface gas hydrate at a depth of about 290 mbsf (1235 mbsl) in the easternmost part of Nankai Trough. The MITI Nankai Trough wells were drilled in late 1999 and early 2000 to provide physical evidence for the existence of gas hydrate. During field operations, continuous LWD and wire-line well log data were obtained and numerous gas hydrate-bearing cores were recovered. Subsequence sedimentologic and geochemical analyses performed on the cores revealed important geologic controls on the formation and preservation of natural gas hydrate. This knowledge is crucial to predicting the location of other hydrate deposits and their eventual energy resource. Pore-space gas hydrates reside in sandy sediments from 205 to 268 mbsf mostly filling intergranular porosity. Pore waters chloride anomalies, core temperature depression and core observations on visible gas hydrates confirm the presence of pore-space hydrates within moderate to thick sand layers. Gas hydrate-bearing sandy strata typically were 10 cm to a meter thick. Gas hydrate saturations are typically between 60 and 90 % throughout most of the hydrate-dominant sand layers, which are estimated by well log analyses as well as pore water chloride anomalies.
It is necessary for evaluating subfurface fluid dlow behavious to know both porosity and permeability of gas hydrate-bearing sand to evaluate subsurface fluid flow behaviors. Sediment porosities and pore-size distributions were obtained by mercury porosimetry, which indicate that porosities of gas hydrate-bearing sandy strata are approximately 40 %. According to grain size distribution curves, gas hydrate is dominant in fine- to very fine-grained sandy strata.     

深部原状和扰动冻粘土力学性能差异性研究

根据原状冻土和扰动冻土的强度和蠕变试验结果，全面地讨论了原状，扰动冻粘土单轴抗压，抗拉，抗剪强度及蠕变变形特性的差异性。由试验得出，原状冻粘土强度及蠕变变形低于扰动冻粘土，而弹模高于扰动冻粘土。并说明了两种冻粘土力学指标出现差异的原因，其结果对冻结工程设计指标确定具有重要参考价值。     

某办公楼火灾后结构鉴定与修复加固

通过实例介绍对火灾后结构进行检测的方法手段，根据检测结果按民用建筑评级标准评定结构安全性等级，并介绍了几种常用的加固补强方法。     

南堡地区碳酸盐岩储层孔隙结构特征及对物性的影响

利用数字图像分析法对南堡地区碳酸盐岩储层的孔隙结构参数进行定量求取,明确了不同类型孔隙的孔隙结构参数特征,分析了孔隙结构特征对储层物性的影响,并应用优选出的孔隙结构参数建立碳酸盐岩储层物性预测模型。结果表明:研究区内碳酸盐岩储层的储集空间以次生孔隙为主,为一套典型的孔隙型储层。应用孔隙结构参数可以较好的区分铸模孔、粒间孔、粒内孔和晶间孔等孔隙类型,其中铸模孔呈较低的平均等效直径与高的宽纵比,粒间孔以高等效直径25%为特征,粒内孔对应最低的比表面、最高的等效直径标准差,晶间孔比表面较高且宽纵比分布范围局限。等效直径、形状因子、球度和宽纵比等参数对储层物性的影响显著。分别针对孔隙度和渗透率,在提取的28项孔隙结构参数中优选出6种相关性高的参数,并应用多元线性回归方法分别进行拟合。验证结果显示拟合公式具有较高的可信度,且渗透率(R^2=0.916)优于孔隙度(R^2=0.778)。该方法可为研究区及其他地区的孔隙型碳酸盐岩储层评价研究提供参考。     

上海青浦华新地区静力触探Ps值与土的物理力学指标的关系

利用上海青浦华新地区岩土工程勘察资料,对ps值和土的室内试验指标进行了相关分析,得出了一些有针对性的经验公式.应用这些公式可用ps值推求土的工程性质,还可根据ps值和psH曲线类型划分土层.     

An Approach for the Reliable Evaluation of the Uncertainties Associated to Petrophysical Properties

The new frontiers of the oil industry are deep offshore reservoirs, fields located in harsh environments with unconventional hydrocarbon accumulations. Extraction of oil or gas from these environments share technical challenges and high development costs. Consequently, an evaluation of the risks associated with exploiting these resources is needed before any investment decisions are made. Potential risks can be properly assessed only by considering all the possible sources of uncertainty affecting the reservoir characterization. Porosity, fluid saturations and net to gross are strategic information used to both calculate hydrocarbon originally in place and define proper field development plans. These quantities are obtained through the log interpretation process, which is an inverse problem where the main petrophysical characteristics are calculated as the acceptable minimum of a cost function describing the discrepancy between measured and simulated logs, the latter being reproduced on the basis of an assumed formation model. The results of the calculation process can be affected by several uncertainties related to the physics and calibration of the measuring tools, the identification of the proper formation model, and the quantification of the model coefficients. An effective methodology able to provide a reliable evaluation of the hydrocarbon volume and the assessment of the associated uncertainties is presented and discussed in this paper. The log interpretation process was approached as a linearly constrained optimization problem, solved by coupling a Lagrange-Newton method with a primal active set algorithm. The evaluation of the uncertainties was obtained by coupling the optimization algorithm with the Monte Carlo approach. The results obtained by the application of the methodology to a real case are shown.     

成矿流体动力学与大地构造环境的关系(英文)

热液矿床的形成需要大量流体,而流体的运移需要包括地势差、岩石变形、热梯度及热异常等多种驱动力。这些流体驱动力与构造环境及过程有密切关系。流体压力状态和热场及地势差的组合决定了压性构造环境流体以向上运动为主,如造山型成矿系统,而张性构造环境流体以对流为主,如VMS和SEDEX成矿系统。造山作用造成的地势差及水平挤压作用所产生的超压可以驱动流体侧向迁移数百公里,如MVT成矿系统。但是,具体的成矿流体动力学过程比较复杂,且随构造演化而变化。在经历过多个大地构造演化阶段的地区,如地洼区,老的成矿流体动力系统不断被新的系统叠加或取代;新的构造单元需要来自地幔的流体源补充才有利于成矿。成矿学研究的是成矿作用与大地构造的关系,而流体动力学系统与大地构造环境密切相关,因此,成矿流体动力学应成为成矿学的一个重要组成部分。     

鄂尔多斯盆地延长组致密砂岩孔喉结构与油藏物性表征

基于高压压汞和核磁共振测试方法,结合分形理论对鄂尔多斯盆地延长组致密砂岩孔喉结构与油藏物性进行了表征。采用毛管束模型和润湿相模型计算了高压压汞孔喉分形维数,利用核磁共振测试T₂谱分别计算了大孔、中孔、小孔以及总孔隙的分形维数;对各分形维数与油藏物性之间的关系进行了对比分析。研究表明：基于高压压汞曲线计算岩心分形维数时,相比于润湿相模型,毛管束模型计算得到的分形维数与油藏物性之间具有更好的相关性,随着分形维数增加,平均半径减小,孔喉结构非均质性增强,油藏物性变差。核磁总孔隙分形维数与油藏物性相关性较差,大孔和中孔的分形维数与油藏物性具有较好的相关性,其中随着大孔和中孔分形维数增加,岩心渗透率降低,油藏物性变差;与小孔相比,大孔和中孔的分形维数与油藏物性的相关性更强,表明致密砂岩储层物性主要受大孔和中孔控制,分形维数可以有效表征致密砂岩小孔、中孔和大孔对油藏物性的影响。     

Relation Between Mechanical Constraints and The Hydration Behaviour in the Case of Na-Montmorillonite:Structural Analysis and Elastics Properties

The experimental prediction of the mechanical properties of minerals remains difficult because of their small particle size (typically < 2 micrometers). This work aims at examining, the effect of an applied mechanical constraint on the hydration behaviour in the case of Na rich-montmorillonite and its relation with the elastic properties. The mechanical constraint is created, at the laboratory scale, by applying a monoaxial pressure for unstressed host material (i.e. Na rich montmorillonite). The structural analysis before and after stress is achieved using an XRD profile modeling approach. This investigation allowed us to determine several structural parameters related to the nature, abundance, size, position and organization of exchangeable cation and water molecule in the interlamellar space along the c* axis. In order to evaluate the affected elastic properties, the GULP code have been used to study the structure and the interlamellar organization. Indeed, the bulk modulus and elastic constants of montmorilonite have been calculated from first principles within density functional theory (DFT). The obtained Young’s modulus for Na-montmorillonite interlayer varies from 5 GPa to 16 GPa. According to the interlamellar space configuration the calculated elastic constant tensors indicate that the a direction is slightly more flexible than the b direction. The calculated elastic constant tensor along c is much lower than the constants calculated along a and b.     

Relations of Rock Structure and Composition to Petrophysical and Geomechanical Rock Properties: Examples from Permocarboniferous Red-Beds

Summary. This study relates textural properties to physical and mechanical properties of coarse grained sedimentary rocks of Permocarboniferous age. As an equivalent to rock texture the principle of geomechanical order is applied. The geomechanical order describes a rock as a function of its structural and compositional order which are derived from petrological analyses. Our results indicate that rock properties like density and porosity are stronger dependent on the structural order, while strength properties additionally depend on the compositional order. The ultrasonic wave velocity responds to both structural and compositional properties. These evidences imply that the geomechanical order is not an independent parameter but a variable function of structural or compositional features, which needs specification for correlation purposes to distinct physical and mechanical rock properties.     

高压环喷拔桩工艺在老楼桩基础清障中的应用

拟建的江苏国际图书中心地下存在原老楼预制方桩基础，采用高压环喷拔桩进行清障处理。介绍了其施工难点及施工工艺流程。