Improved Maxwell Model Describing the Whole Creep Process of Salt Rock and its Programming

Author(s):  
Junbao Wang ◽  
Tong Wang ◽  
Zhanping Song ◽  
Yuwei Zhang ◽  
Qiang Zhang
2020 ◽  
Vol 201 ◽  
pp. 01007
Author(s):  
Mikhail Zhuravkov ◽  
Sergey Hvesenya ◽  
Siarhei Lapatsin

The results of the durability analysis of a complex underground structure and surrounding multilayered rock massif are presented. The research is conducted based on an applied stress-strain state problem for a salt rock massif in the vicinity of an underground cavity of a large cross-section which is in conjunction with a mine shaft. The main aim of the research is to perform a comparative analysis of various mathematical models of the creep process. The problem is solved using finite element method to achieve this goal. Regularity in the development of deformation processes of the enclosing rock massif is established as a result of the study. According to this regularity, both primary creep and primary-secondary creep models show that the main increase of creep deformations occurs during a short initial time period after which creep strain rate decreases sharply.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Qiang Zhang ◽  
Zhanping Song ◽  
Junbao Wang ◽  
Yuwei Zhang ◽  
Tong Wang

Due to the advantages of low porosity, low permeability, high ductility, and excellent capacities for creep and damage self-healing, salt rock is internationally considered as the ideal medium for underground storage of energy and disposal of radioactive waste. As one of the most important mechanical properties of salt rock, creep properties are closely related to the long-term operation stability and safety of salt rock underground storage cavern. A comprehensive review on the creep properties and constitutive model of salt rock is put forward in this paper. The opinions and suggestions on the research priority and direction of salt rock's mechanical properties in the future are put forward: (1) permeability variation of salt rock under the coupling effect of temperature and stress; (2) damage mechanism and evolution process under the effect of creep-fatigue interaction and low frequency cyclic loading; (3) microdeformation mechanisms of salt rock and the relationship between microstructure variations and macrocreep behavior during creep process; (4) the establishment of the creep damage constitutive model with simple form, less parameters, easy application, and considering the damage self-healing ability of salt rock simultaneously.


Energies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 2349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongwei Zhou ◽  
Di Liu ◽  
Gang Lei ◽  
Dongjie Xue ◽  
Yang Zhao

The use of salt rock for underground radioactive waste disposal facilities requires a comprehensive analysis of the creep-damage process in salt rock. A computer-controlled creep setup was employed to carry out a creep test of salt rock that lasted as long as 359 days under a constant uniaxial stress. The acoustic emission (AE) space-time evolution and energy-releasing characteristics during the creep test were studied in the meantime. A new creep-damage model is proposed on the basis of a fractional derivative by combining the AE statistical regularity. It indicates that the AE data in the non-decay creep process of salt rock can be divided into three stages. Furthermore, the authors propose a new creep-damage model of salt rock based on a fractional derivative. The parameters in the model were determined by the Quasi-Newton method. The fitting analysis suggests that the new creep-damage model provides a precise description of full creep regions in salt rock.


Author(s):  
Hongwei Zhou ◽  
Di Liu ◽  
Gang Lei ◽  
Dongjie Xue ◽  
Yang Zhao

The use of salt rock for underground radioactive waste disposal facilities requires a comprehensive analysis of creep-damage process in salt rock. A computer-controlled creep setup is employed to carry out a creep test of salt rock lasted as long as 359 days under a constant uniaxial stress. The AE space-time evolution and energy releasing characteristics during creep test are studied in the meantime. A new creep-damage model is proposed on the basis of fractional derivative by combining the AE statistical regularity. It indicates that the AE data in non-decay creep process of salt rock can be divided into three stages. Furthermore, the parameters of new creep-damage model are determined by Quasi-Newton method. The fitting analysis suggests that the creep-damage model based on fractional derivative in this paper provides a precise description of full creep regions in salt rock.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 3885
Author(s):  
Dawid Gajda ◽  
Marcin Lutyński

Energy production from renewable energy sources is not stable and any fluctuations in energy productions need to be eliminated with underground energy storage. Demand of underground gas storage will be increasing, due to the switching to green energy, while the availability of underground storage sites, especially salt caverns suitable for hydrogen storage, is limited. The purpose of this paper is to compare the hydrogen permeability of different materials and select a proper liner material for hydrogen storage in Liner Rock Caverns or post mine workings. A variety of materials, like concrete, polymer concrete, epoxy resin, salt rock, and mudstone, were tested for gas permeability/hydrogen diffusion, using the combined Steady-State Flow/Carrier Gas methods. Results are shown in different units, providing the opportunity to compare the results with literature data. The permeability value of investigated epoxy resin is comparable to the salt rock (after creep process), which makes the epoxy resin a promising sealing liner for hydrogen and potential substitution of stainless-steel in Lined Rock Cavern (LRC) gas storage.


Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 2353
Author(s):  
Xiaochang Duan ◽  
Hongwei Yuan ◽  
Wei Tang ◽  
Jingjing He ◽  
Xuefei Guan

This study develops a unified phenomenological creep model for polymer-bonded composite materials, allowing for predicting the creep behavior in the three creep stages, namely the primary, the secondary, and the tertiary stages under sustained compressive stresses. Creep testing is performed using material specimens under several conditions with a temperature range of 20 °C–50 °C and a compressive stress range of 15 MPa–25 MPa. The testing data reveal that the strain rate–time response exhibits the transient, steady, and unstable stages under each of the testing conditions. A rational function-based creep rate equation is proposed to describe the full creep behavior under each of the testing conditions. By further correlating the resulting model parameters with temperature and stress and developing a Larson–Miller parameter-based rupture time prediction model, a unified phenomenological model is established. An independent validation dataset and third-party testing data are used to verify the effectiveness and accuracy of the proposed model. The performance of the proposed model is compared with that of an existing reference model. The verification and comparison results show that the model can describe all the three stages of the creep process, and the proposed model outperforms the reference model by yielding 28.5% smaller root mean squared errors on average.


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