膨润土加砂混合物膨胀特征试验研究

运用自行研制的膨胀仪对膨润土加砂混合物进行了一系列膨胀力及膨胀应变等膨胀特性的试验研究,分析了膨胀力随时间的变化规律、两向膨胀力之间的关系和膨胀应变与时间及吸水量之间的关系。试验研究表明,膨润土加砂混合物的最大膨胀力以及最大膨胀应变主要取决于混合物的最初干密度和膨润土含量,并且随着二者的增大而增大;膨润土加砂混合物的水平膨胀力与竖向膨胀力之比随着混合物干密度的增大减小,并且与干密度近似成线性关系;不同膨润土含量的膨润土加砂混合物的膨胀应变与时间成双曲线关系,与吸水量近似呈S型曲线关系,并且其最大膨胀应变与膨润土含量存在指数关系。试验结果对高放废物深处置库中的缓冲回填材料设计具有一定的参考价值。     

混合型缓冲回填材料膨胀力试验研究

与纯膨润土相比,混合型缓冲回填材料（膨润土与石英砂混合物）能够实现防渗阻隔能力、热传导性能、力学强度和可施工性能的最佳组合。选用高庙子钠基膨润土（GMZ001）为缓冲回填材料的主料,添加不同比例的石英砂,对掺砂比分别为0、10%、20%、30%、40%和50%的膨润土-砂混合物压实试样进行室内试验。结果表明,混合物的液限、塑限随掺砂率的增大而线性降低;膨胀力随时间呈指数增长。初始含水率较大时,最大膨胀力随初始含水率的增大略有降低。掺砂率一定时,最大膨胀力随初始干密度指数增长。提出了有效黏土密度的概念,建立了一定初始含水率条件下,任意掺砂率和初始干密度的高庙子膨润土-砂混合物最大膨胀力归一化模型,为混合型缓冲回填材料膨胀力的预测与控制提供了依据。     

水-力耦合条件下膨润土-砂混合物的体变特性研究

在高放核废物处置库中,膨润土-砂混合物是一种可选的缓冲回填材料,掌握其在水-力耦合条件下的体变特征对正确评价处置库的长期安全性有重要意义。按照不同的石英砂掺量(0%~50%)配制了6组膨润土/砂混合物,依次进行了单轴侧限压缩、有荷膨胀(轴向应力为0.2 MPa)和饱和再压缩试验,获得了混合物在不同水-力路径下的变形特征,并着重分析了砂掺量的影响。结果表明:(1)膨润土-砂混合物的压缩性与掺砂量、饱和状态和密实度有关。在非饱和及密实度较低(ρ_d1.7 g/cm~3)的条件下,混合物的压缩指数随砂掺量的增加近似线性减小;当混合物压缩到较高的密实度(ρ_d1.7 g/cm~3)并且饱和后,压缩指数受掺砂量的影响不明显,但其值远小于非饱和及低密实度状态。(2)混合物的最终膨胀率随着掺砂量的增加呈指数减小,随膨润土有效干密度的增加而呈指数增加。掺砂量达到40%时,膨胀过程伴随有体积回落现象,且体积回落率随砂掺量的增加而加剧。(3)混合物在不同水-力路径中及不同砂掺量条件下呈现的体变差异性与膨润土和砂在试样中的分布状态及二者对土体骨架的主导作用有关,总体上,掺砂量越高或试样密实度越大,砂对体变的主导作用越强。(4)混合物的膨胀力随掺砂量的增加而减小,通过引入膨润土有效干密度参数,建立了混合物膨胀力与该参数间的指数定量关系,可对膨胀力进行预测,并从蒙脱石的体积变化率与质量分布率的角度进一步分析了混合物膨胀力的作用机制。     

混合型缓冲回填材料膨胀变形试验研究

选用高庙子钠基膨润土(GMZ001)为缓冲回填材料的主料,添加不同比例的石英砂,对掺砂率分别为0%、10%、20%、30%、40%和50%的膨润土-砂混合物压实试样进行室内膨胀变形试验。结果表明：膨胀率随时间呈指数增长;掺砂率一定时,最大膨胀率随初始干密度的增大而线性增长;初始干密度一定时,最大膨胀率与掺砂率呈二次函数关系。引入有效黏土密度的概念对最大膨胀率进行计算,建立了任意掺砂率和初始干密度条件下膨润土-砂混合物最大膨胀率归一化模型,为混合型缓冲回填材料在高放废物地质处置中膨胀行为的预测与控制提供了依据。     

掺砂率对膨润土与砂混合物膨胀特性的影响

膨润土与砂混合物的膨胀特性是评估核废料深层地质处置工程长期性能的重要指标。对比不同膨润土及其与砂混合物的膨胀试验结果可知,对纯膨润土及其低掺砂率混合物,浸水膨胀完成后蒙脱石孔隙比em与竖向应力?v在双对数坐标内呈惟一的线性关系,利用该线性关系可预测浸水完成后不同竖向应力下的体积变化量及不同初始状态对应的膨胀力;对高掺砂率混合物,在砂骨架形成之前,em-?v线性关系成立,随着竖向应力的增大,砂骨架形成,对应的em值脱离em-?v线性关系,混合物中掺砂率越大,脱离该线性关系时的竖向应力就越小。砂骨架形成前,砂颗粒被蒙脱石包围,外力由蒙脱石承担,最终变形量由试样中单位体积蒙脱石的含量决定;砂骨架形成后,竖向应力最终由砂骨架和蒙脱石共同承担。利用砂骨架孔隙比的概念可确定各种不同掺砂率混合物形成砂骨架时的应力起偏点。同时,还可确定混合物能够形成砂骨架的掺砂率范围。     

缓冲／回填材料——砂-膨润土混合物研究进展

砂-膨润土混合物已被很多核能国家选为核废物地质处置库中理想的缓冲/回填材料。膨润土中加入砂可提高热传导系数和强度,维持适当的膨胀力,使其工程上易于处理并节省成本;但同时会导致其阻水能力和自愈性减弱。研究表明,影响砂-膨润土混合物以上各性质的主要因素为：砂/膨润土配合比、初始含水量、干密度等,它们综合决定着砂/膨润土最优配合比的选取。石英砂对混合物的渗透性、热传导性、强度等的影响,最优配合比选取,以及非饱和状态下吸力变化对混合物渗透性的影响等,应该是今后一段时间内砂-膨润土混合物研究的重点。     

我国高放废物处置库缓冲／回填材料压实膨胀特性研究

本文研究了我国高放废物地质处置库缓冲／回填材料－内蒙古高庙子膨润土的压实、膨胀力和膨胀变形特性。实验结果表明，膨润土样品的压实密度与压制压力和蒙脱石含量有关，膨胀力与样品压实密度和蒙脱石含量有关，样品在荷载作用下膨胀变形明显减小。     

膨润土加砂混合物膨胀特性研究

通过有荷膨胀试验,对膨润土加砂混合物的膨胀特性进行了研究,分析了膨胀应变与轴向应力、膨胀应变与吸水量以及轴向应力与吸水量之间的关系,并建立了能综合反映轴向应力和吸水量对膨胀应变影响的混合物膨胀本构关系式。试验研究表明,膨胀应变随着轴向应力的增大而减小,两者之间的关系可以采用对数线性关系来表达;吸水量的变化对膨胀应变有明显的影响,膨胀应变随吸水量的增加而线性的增大;而吸水量受到轴向应力的影响,随着轴向应力的增大,吸水量减少,在轴向应力一定时,吸水量会达到一个最终的饱和值。由于考虑了膨胀变形过程中吸水量的变化,所建立的膨胀本构关系式能较好地反映膨润土加砂混合物的膨胀特性。     

膨润土-砂的膨胀特性与蒙脱石质量比率

在高放废物(HLW)地质处置的工程屏障体系中,使用以膨润土为主料的混合型缓冲回填材料,是阻截放射性核素向地下水环境迁移的最主要的包封设施。膨润土中添加一定量的石英砂,既能优化回填设计与施工性能,又能满足对放射性核素的有效拦截。本文综合分析了初始含水量、干密度、膨润土含量、压力等对压实膨润土-砂混合物膨胀性能指标的影响,提出"蒙脱石的质量比率"这一指标,将干密度和膨润土含量归一为蒙脱石质量比率指标,得出混合材料膨胀力随蒙脱石质量比率增长呈指数增长的规律,从而可以实现对膨胀力的定量预测。     

膨润土膨胀变形的分形模型

Xu等[1] 提出基于膨润土表面分形模型的膨胀变形计算方法 Vw／Vm=kPDs-3(式1),并得到了Tsukinuno膨润土、Wyoming膨润土和MX-80膨润土的膨胀变形和膨胀压力(统称膨胀变形)的膨胀试验数据的验证。当时由于条件限制,存在两个问题:(1)膨润土的表面分维一般采用氮吸附法测量,由膨胀变形试验数据反算得到的膨润土表面分维没有得到氮吸附试验数据的验证; (2)在归一化吸水体积与压力的分形模型(式1)中,K是膨润土的物性常数,没有给出理论表达式,只是经验系数。本文采用氮吸附方法测量了高庙子Na基膨润土、高庙子Ca基膨润土、商用膨润土和Tsukinuno膨润土的表面分维,根据式(1)由表面分维计算膨胀变形,并与膨胀试验数据比较,验证膨胀变形的分形模型; 根据双电层理论,导出用双电层参数表示式(1)中K值的理论表达式,用于膨胀变形的计算,并与膨胀变形试验结果进行比较验证。     

饱和膨润土及其与砂混合物的压缩变形特性

对用不同制样方法得到的饱和膨润土及其与砂混合物进行了压缩试验。试验结果表明,饱和膨润土的压缩曲线呈双线性,不同于普通黏土的压缩曲线。压缩试验中量测了侧向应力,由此得到的饱和膨润土的静止侧向压力系数值较一般黏土的数值要大。对膨润土与砂混合物的击实样进行了由非饱和到饱和状态的浸水试验,并得出试验过程中侧向应力的变化规律。由于浸水饱和的试样和抽真空饱和的试样在较高压力时压缩曲线趋于一致,可采用快速抽真空饱和的方法进行试验研究,以缩短非饱和混合物击实样浸水饱和所需时间。引入骨架孔隙比的概念,用来判断膨润土与砂混合物中砂骨架是否形成,得出影响混合物压缩特性的决定因素。     

压实红黏土的恒体积膨胀力与细观机制研究

针对目前量测土体膨胀力的主要方法所存在的不足,提出近似完全限制条件下测量土体膨胀力的改进方法。以压实红黏土为研究对象,测到不同初始状态（含水率、干密度）试样的膨胀力,并与膨胀反压法测得的膨胀力进行对比分析,发现限制膨胀方法测得的膨胀力要小于膨胀反压法的试验值。同时,显现出限制膨胀法测膨胀力具有3个主要优点：试验过程中保持土体不发生变形,更加符合膨胀力的物理定义;试验耗时少、占空间少;能测较宽含水率范围内的膨胀力。最后,利用压汞法和氮吸附法测得不同状态下土体的细观孔隙结构分布特征。结果表明：相同干密度试样,制样含水率对压实土体的孔隙分布影响显著;黏土晶间和粒间吸水自由膨胀后发生“不可逆”膨胀变形;土体发生“不可逆”膨胀变形程度是引起限制膨胀法和膨胀反压法所得试验结果出现差异的主要原因。     

Shear Strength Behavior of Two Landfill Clay Liners

Direct shear tests were conducted to obtain both the shear strength of compacted clay liners (CCLs) specimens and the interface shear strength between compacted clay liner and base soil. These experiments were conducted under the conditions of five different water contents. The experimental results show that shear strength of both CCLs and CCLs/base interface decreases with the increase in the water content of CCLs and base soil. In addition, the considerate concentration of NaCl in leachate has no deteriorating effect on the shear strength of liners. Triaxial shear tests were also conducted on clay liner specimens to obtain total and effective shear strength under a fast compression. The shear strength c‘=100 kPa for sand-bentonite, respectively. These results indicate that the compacted clay-bentonite shows normal consolidation, but that the compacted sand-bentonite exhibits over-consolidation.     

Tensile strength characteristics of contaminated and compacted sand-bentonite mixtures

A theoretical and experimental study of the unconfined penetration test (UP) method was conducted to determine the tensile strength of contaminated and compacted sand-bentonite mixtures, which are used widely in the landfill construction sites as a clay liner. To do this, the original UP device and experimental procedure were modified to reduce the measurement errors and named as the improved unconfined penetration (IUP) test. Experiments were carried out to examine the variation in tensile strength as a function of disk diameter, loading rate and pH level. The results of the experiments provided the following important findings. The tensile strength increases with an increase in the disk diameter. The tensile strength is not sensitive to the loading rate in the range of 0.1%/min–1.0%/min. A specimen compacted with a low pH value of water shows a high tensile strength, because a lower pH solution increases soil particle bonding stresses.     

不同压实度荆门弱膨胀土的一维膨胀-压缩特性

为探讨压实膨胀土的体变行为,以荆门弱膨胀土为研究对象,借助高压固结仪对6种制样压实度下的膨胀土试样进行了一维无荷载膨胀和含一次卸载-再加载循环的压缩试验。基于膨胀试验结果,构建了膨胀时程方程,通过参数分析,明确了方程参数的物理意义,并建议了膨胀时程曲线3阶段的划分方法。基于压缩试验结果,探讨了固结屈服应力、压缩指数Cc、回弹指数Cs、膨胀力与制样压实度、土体结构性、膨胀势、孔隙比的相关关系。试验结果及其分析表明,膨胀土体积变化是膨胀势与外部荷载、湿度变化的耦合作用结果,且具有强烈的水-力路径依赖性。     

Swelling characteristics of compacted lateritic soil–bentonite mixtures subjected to municipal waste leachate contamination

Compacted soil–bentonite mixtures are finding wide application as buffer material for waste repositories for their favorable self-sealing qualities. The swelling properties of such materials which serve as a measure of their self-sealing capabilities and, thus, the efficiency of the repository in sealing off their contents from the environment are closely related to the chemistry of the leachate that emanate from the wastes. For this reason, the swelling parameters (namely swelling potential and pressure) of compacted lateritic soil–bentonite mixtures under consideration for use as barrier in municipal waste landfill were evaluated. Series of swelling potential and pressure tests were performed using variable content (0–10 %) of bentonite at predetermined optimum moisture content. Soil mixtures were compacted with British Standard Heavy compactive effort and saturated with processed tap water as well as three leachate solutions of varying ionic strength that were generated in active open dump landfills. Experimental results showed that swelling potential based on the free swell together with the maximum swell pressures of compacted soil mixtures measured at equilibrium increased approximately linearly with increase in the amount of bentonite when inundated with processed tap water and the three leachate solutions. On the other hand, these swelling parameters decreased as the ionic strength of the leachate solutions measured by their electrical conductivity increased for the various soil mixtures. These results provide an insight into the swelling behavior and the possible degradation in the efficiency of the proposed lateritic soil–bentonite mixtures in relation to their use as buffer material in waste landfills.     

Hydraulic Conductivity Prediction of Saturated Sand-Bentonite Mixtures

In this paper, models have been developed to predict the hydraulic conductivity of the saturated bentonite and saturated sand-bentonite mixtures. For these models, free swell void ratio of the bentonite is required which can be obtained using a simple test. It was observed that hydraulic conductivity of the saturated bentonite and saturated sand-bentonite mixtures could be predicted within 5 or 1/5 times of the measured values for most of the cases.     

An upscaling method and a numerical analysis of swelling/shrinking processes in a compacted bentonite/sand mixture

This paper presents an upscaling concept of swelling/shrinking processes of a compacted bentonite/sand mixture, which also applies to swelling of porous media in general. A constitutive approach for highly compacted bentonite/sand mixture is developed accordingly. The concept is based on the diffuse double layer theory and connects microstructural properties of the bentonite as well as chemical properties of the pore fluid with swelling potential. Main factors influencing the swelling potential of bentonite, i.e. variation of water content, dry density, chemical composition of pore fluid, as well as the microstructures and the amount of swelling minerals are taken into account. According to the proposed model, porosity is divided into interparticle and interlayer porosity. Swelling is the potential of interlayer porosity increase, which reveals itself as volume change in the case of free expansion, or turns to be swelling pressure in the case of constrained swelling. The constitutive equations for swelling/shrinking are implemented in the software GeoSys/RockFlow as a new chemo‐hydro‐mechanical model, which is able to simulate isothermal multiphase flow in bentonite. Details of the mathematical and numerical multiphase flow formulations, as well as the code implementation are described. The proposed model is verified using experimental data of tests on a highly compacted bentonite/sand mixture. Comparison of the 1D modelling results with the experimental data evidences the capability of the proposed model to satisfactorily predict free swelling of the material under investigation. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Ferric chloride treatment to control alakli induced heave in weathered red earth

A detailed experimental investigation has been carried out to study the use of ferric chloride salt to control the undesirable volume changes induced by high concentrated alkali contamination on kaolinitic red earth. X-Ray diffraction studies have revealed that soil alkali interactions produce mineralogical changes and formation of new mineral such as zeolite, which are responsible for observed swelling in non-swelling kaolinitic soil. Loss of ferric oxide, which are known cementing agents has been attributed as one of the reasons for swelling in alkali contaminated soils. The consolidation behaviour of soil compacted with 5% ferric chloride solution by weight of solutions and inundated with alkali solutions as well as soil compacted with alkali and inundated with 5% ferric chloride by weight of solutions has been studied. To study the effect of amount of ferric chloride, the volume change behaviour of soil compacted with different weight percentages of ferric salts by weight of soil (1%, 3%, and 5%) and inundated with alkali solutions has also been studied. The swelling of soil compacted with alkali has been checked by inundating with 5% ferric chloride solutions due to neutralization of alkali and is not controlled when soil compacted with 5% ferric chloride solutions is inundated continuously with alkali solutions. Further, even when the soil is treated with higher amounts of ferric chloride, in the range of 1–5% by weight of soil, the swelling is not controlled. X-ray diffraction studies have shown that the formation of zeolite is not inhibited in the presence of ferric salts.This study clearly shows that ferric chloride treatment can overcome the effects of small concentrations of alkali; it is ineffective to overcome the large and continued exposure of soils with alkali contamination.