Analytical solutions for nonlinear consolidation of soft soil around a shield tunnel with idealized sealing linings

This paper presents the analytical solutions for nonlinear consolidation of soft soil around a shield tunnel with idealized sealing linings. By introducing the empirical relation between permeability and compressibility, along with the conformal transformation, the governing equations of nonlinear consolidation are established, and the corresponding analytical solutions are derived. Then, the Terzaghi consolidation solutions are derived from the degenerate governing equation of nonlinear consolidation. Through the predictions of different consolidation theories in both completely permeable and impermeable lining conditions, the influences of a tunnel acting as a drain and impacting the dissipation of pore pressure, degree of consolidation, long-term ground settlements and ground settlement rates are investigated. During the early stages of consolidation, the case studies reveal that the predictions made by this study strongly agree with the field data when a completely permeable lining is applied. This study confirms that a tunnel acting as a drain can accelerate the consolidation of soil and enlarge soil deformation due to consolidation. During long term consolidation, a notable nonlinearity of the soil consolidation is exhibited by a small and gradually decreasing settlement rate, showing agreement with the tendency of field data from the impermeable conditions.     

天然气水合物在油气藏形成过程中的封盖作用——谈造山带中烃源岩对盆地区油气资源的贡献

在中国的造山带中普遍发育优质烃源岩,它们形成于海槽环境,而海槽环境也是形成天然气水合物的有利环境。水合物有良好的封盖作用,其下的油气受到封盖会向相邻的台地区运移,即油气从古海槽区(现今为造山带)向台地区(现今为盆地区)转移。因此造山带中的烃源岩对盆地区油气资源应有积极贡献。认为现今台西南海域的水合物与相邻油气藏具有同源性,这是水合物的封盖作用与油气藏形成之间具有密切联系的生动实例。四川盆地有限的烃源岩分布不能提供巨大的天然气储量,周边造山带可能也提供了相当的资源量。建议在四川盆地和秦岭造山带中系统采集气-液包裹体,以对比它们的亲缘关系,借以验证造山带中的烃源岩是否对盆地区的天然气成藏具有贡献。     

大庆长垣南部白垩纪断裂活动及对浅层气藏的控制

大庆长垣南部包括葡北、敖包塔和葡两3个局部构造.黑帝庙油层的形成与3种不同演化历史断层有关：反转期断裂（Ⅲ犁）、断陷期形成坳陷期和反转期均活动的断裂（Ⅰ-Ⅱ-Ⅲ型）和坳陷期形成反转期活动的断裂（Ⅱ-Ⅲ型）;其中连通气源岩且活动期与大量生排气期相匹配的Ⅰ-Ⅱ-Ⅲ型和Ⅱ-Ⅲ型断裂是生物气垂向运移的主要通道,Ⅰ-Ⅱ-Ⅲ型断裂是深部CO₂向上运移的主要通道.这些断层均是“似花状”断层组合的边界断层,对倾边界断层控制背斜和鼻状构造形成.数值模拟表明：对倾的气源断层与地层产状的配置关系共同控制天然气运移方向和聚集的部位,由于葡萄花和敖包塔构造西缓东陡,因此天然气主要富集在背斜东翼和背斜之间的断块上.     

四川盆地下寒武统膏盐岩发育特征与封盖有效性分析

四川盆地下寒武统广泛发育一套膏盐岩,主要沉积于早寒武世龙王庙期。基于四川盆地深井及实测剖面中膏盐岩的识别和统计,发现下寒武统有川南和鄂西两大聚盐区,最厚达690.40m;川南聚盐区西部以含泥含云质石膏岩类和含膏砂泥岩类为主,东部及颚西聚盐区主要为含膏白云岩类。结合前人研究,认为膏盐岩发育于浅水缓坡沉积环境,有潮上萨布哈和缓坡蒸发两类成因。通过对川南聚盐区储盖匹配关系及后期构造与膏盐岩封盖性分析,表明下寒武统膏盐岩与盐下震旦系优质的白云岩储层在空间上具有良好的匹配关系;四川盆地边界大断裂及边界外寒武系的抬升暴露让膏盐岩在盆地外封盖性失效,而在盆地内膏盐岩的封盖性较好。威远气田解剖表明有膏盐岩分布的威远地区成藏,而无膏盐岩分布的资阳地区气藏被破坏,显示了下寒武统膏盐岩在四川盆地油气成藏中具有重要的作用。     

Thermohydromechanical simulations of the natural cooling stage of the Tunnel Sealing Experiment

The Tunnel Sealing Experiment (TSX), located on the 420 Level of the Underground Research Laboratory (URL) of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL), was used to study the behaviour of two bulkheads installed in situ: one composed of highly compacted bentonite-sand blocks, the other composed of low-heat high-performance concrete. Permeable sand was placed in an 11.2-m-long chamber between the bulkheads. The chamber was first pressurized with water to 4 MPa to simulate the conditions likely to develop in the period following installation of seals in an actual repository. A stage of circulating hot water in the chamber began on 2002 September 24. The maximum design temperature of 85 °C at the interior face of the bulkheads could not be achieved in the time available. The actual maximum temperature was 65 °C. The purpose of heating was to investigate the thermohydromechanical responses in the bulkheads and surrounding rock to increased temperature. A passive cooling stage followed the heating stage. To help understand the influence of natural cooling on the thermohydromechanical response, a series of coupled thermohydromechanical modelling exercises was carried out using the finite element program, Model Of Transport In Fractured/porous media (MOTIF), and the results were compared with measured data. The thermal response in the rock and the bulkheads was successfully simulated. The influence of hydraulic conductivity on the hydraulic response in the clay bulkhead was analyzed.     

Numerical study of the performance of tunnel plugs

High axial flow rates within and along tunnels, excavated for deposition of high level nuclear waste, may increase the transport capacity of potential escape routes for radionuclides that have been released to the buffer surrounding the waste canisters, or to the tunnel backfill materials, from leaking fuel canisters. High flow rates may be found if the tunnel interior has a high permeability, either initially due to the composition of the backfill material or at later times due to degradation of low permeability backfill material components. If a disturbed rock zone, a DRZ, of increased permeability was created as a result of direct damage done to the wall region during tunnel excavation, this zone may contain additional possible escape routes. Low-permeability tunnel plugs, keyed into slots cut in the rock walls, have been suggested as means of reducing axial flow rates. This paper deals with different aspects of such tunnel-plug systems. A preliminary estimate of the potential for tunnel plugs to reduce axial flow rates is made using analytical expressions. A number of numerical techniques are employed to investigate the hydraulic, mechanical and hydromechanical performance. These include μFLOW (FEM flow calculations), FLAC (finite difference mechanical calculations) and 3DEC (distinct element mechanical calculations). The mechanical calculations concern the mechanical stability in the rock surrounding the slot and permeability changes in that rock caused by stress redistribution. The results show that the effects of tunnel plugs are very significant in most cases. A discussion on the validity of the results and the applicability of the used methods is provided.     

库车坳陷克拉苏构造带白垩系砂岩埋藏成岩环境的封闭性及其胶结作用分异特征

以库车坳陷克拉苏构造带白垩系巴什基奇克组为研究层段,分别通过层间泥岩硼元素含量和碳酸盐胶结物流体包体显微测温,对不同成岩期地层流体盐度进行示踪对比.由于自沉积初始至埋藏成岩期碳酸盐胶结阶段,研究层段经历一段较为稳定的构造时期,再加上沉积及构造疏导体系的缺失,地层流体始终缺乏大规模交换与改造,不同成岩场之间水-岩体系在这一阶段呈现出一定的封闭性特征,使得研究层段在碳酸盐胶结期孔隙流体盐度时空分异较好地延续了同沉积期水体盐度的分异规律,这种延续性不仅体现在平面上,也体现在垂向上.研究层段在碳酸盐胶结期后经历了强烈的构造活动,但由于断层的封堵并未对流体介质进行有效的疏导,先期形成的碳酸盐胶结分异规律因而未受到明显干扰,从而呈现出同沉积地层水体盐度时空分异特征造就了埋藏成岩期碳酸盐胶结作用的时空分异规律.     

高压喷射灌浆技术在强透水堤基处理中的应用

本文介绍了高压喷射灌浆技术在北江大堤强透水堤基处理中的应用．文中在分析堤基地层结构特征和物性指标的基础上，论述了高喷防渗墙的设计施工参数，根据已有围井检验结果，分析了各种地层高喷防渗墙的防渗效果，提出了用“单位渗水率”指标评价围封质量的新方法．文中根据大堤渗流观测资料和检验指标“单位渗水率”，建立了高喷防渗墙垂直截流堤基的渗流计算公式，并得出高喷防渗墙能有效地抑制住大堤堤基的渗流形变．     

The potential formation of acid mine drainage in pyrite-bearing hard-coal tailings under water-saturated conditions: an experimental approach

 Annually, an amount of approximately 13 million cubic meters of hard-coal tailings must be disposed of in the German Ruhr Valley. Besides the waste of land in a densily populated region, the disposal of the pyrite-bearing material under atmospheric conditions may lead to the formation of acid mine drainage (AMD). Therefore, alternative disposal opportunities are of increasing importance, one of which being the use of tailings under water-saturated conditions, such as in backfilling of abandoned gravel pits or in the construction of waterways. In this case, the oxidation of pyrite, and hence the formation of AMD, is controlled by the amount of oxygen dissolved in the pore water of tailings deposited under water. In case the advective percolation of water is suppressed by sufficient compaction of the tailings, oxygen transport can be reduced to diffusive processes, which are limited by the diffusive flux of dissolved oxygen in equilibrium with the atmospheric pO₂. Calculations of the duration of pyrite oxidation based on laboratory experiments have shown that the reduction of oxygen is mainly controlled by the content of organic substance rather than the pyrite content, a fact that is supported by results from oxidation experiments with nitrate. A "worst case" study has lead to the result that the complete oxidation of a 1.5-m layer of hard-coal tailings deposited under water-saturated conditions would take as much as several hundred thousand years. Received: 6 May 1996 · Accepted: 2 August 1996     

Balanced harvesting: The institutional incompatibilities

Balanced harvesting is the name of a newly proposed approach to fishing which promises the extraction of high and sustainable fisheries yields while maintaining the structure of the ecosystem from which those yields could be obtained. This is to be achieved through exposing all components of ecosystems (from zooplankton to top predators, including seals, sea birds and marine mammals) to a fishing mortality proportional to their size-specific productivity. This study briefly analyses the incompatibility between balanced harvesting (and its implications) and the stated missions of two major organizations, FAO (which stresses the need of selective fishing in its Code of Conduct for Sustainable Fisheries) and IUCN (which maintains the Red List of Threatened Species), but which have issued reports or organized conferences promoting balanced harvesting. The study also demonstrates the incompatibility of balanced harvesting with the recently reformed Common Fisheries Policy of the European Union. While balanced harvesting appears partly compatible with declared fisheries policies of a few countries, e.g. with regard to whaling, sealing, and indiscriminate biomass fishing, it is not only incompatible with the basic tenets of fisheries science, but also with the vision, gradually emerging globally, that marine organisms such as marine mammals, sea turtles, sea-birds and other fauna have an intrinsic value and right to life that should not be undermined by more of the indiscriminate fishing which currently shapes much of our interactions with the oceans.