scholarly journals Variation Characteristics of Mass-Loss Rate in Dynamic Seepage System of the Broken Rocks

Geofluids ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luzhen Wang ◽  
Hailing Kong

When the collapse column and its adjacent rocks in complex geological structures are disturbed by mining, concomitant fine particle migration, mass loss, and porous structure variation during the water seepage process in broken rocks are the inherent causes for collapse column activation and water inrush. Studying the time-varying characteristics of the mass-loss rate in the dynamic seepage system of the broken rocks is of theoretical importance for the prevention of water inrush from the collapse columns. In this study, the seepage tests of the broken mudstone were carried out using the patented pumping station seepage method, and the time-varying function of the mass-loss rate was generalized. Then, the optimal coefficients in the function of mass-loss rate were computed using the genetic algorithm. At last, the mass-loss rate in the dynamic seepage system of the broken rocks with consideration of the acceleration factor was calculated using Lagrange discrete element method. The results showed that (1) the mass-loss rate was expressed as a time-dependent, exponential function with its coefficient related to the porosity, and its time-varying characteristics were affected by gradation; (2) the time-varying curves with Talbol power exponents less than 0.6 had a rapid change stage and a slow change stage, while the time-varying curves with Talbol power exponents greater than 0.6 had an initial gradual change stage, a rapid change stage and a slow change stage; (3) at the early seepage stage, the mass-loss rate decreased with Talbol power exponent increasing; and (4) after long time seepage, the mass-loss rate was close to zero and unrelated to Talbol power exponent, and the porous structure in broken rocks remained stable with its porosity close to a certain stable value.

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Chong Li ◽  
Banghua Yao ◽  
Qingqing Ma

In order to analyze variable-mass permeation characteristics of broken rock mass under different cementation conditions and reveal the water inrush mechanism of geological structures containing broken rock masses like karst collapse pillars (KCPs) in the coal mine, the EDEM-FLUENT coupling simulation system was used to implement a numerical simulation study of variable-mass permeation of broken rock mass under different cementation conditions and time-dependent change laws of parameters like porosity, permeability, and mass loss rate of broken rock specimens under the erosion effect were obtained. Study results show that (1) permeability change of broken rock specimens under the particle migration effect can be divided into three phases, namely, the slow-changing seepage phase, sudden-changing seepage phase, and steady seepage phase. (2) Specimen fillings continuously migrate and run off under the water erosion effect, porosity and permeability rapidly increase and then tend to be stable, and the mass loss rate firstly rapidly increases and then gradually decreases. (3) Cementation degree has an important effect on permeability of broken rock mass. As cementing force of the specimen is enhanced, its maximum mass loss rate, mass loss, porosity, and permeability all continuously decrease. The study approach and results not only help enhance coal mining operations safety by better understanding KCP water inrush risks. It can also be extended to other engineering applications such as backfill paste piping and tailing dam erosion.


2013 ◽  
Vol 768 (1) ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. O. Ofek ◽  
L. Lin ◽  
C. Kouveliotou ◽  
G. Younes ◽  
E. Göğüş ◽  
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2014 ◽  
Vol 664 ◽  
pp. 199-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Guang An ◽  
Lin Jiang ◽  
Jin Hua Sun ◽  
K.M. Liew

An experimental study on downward flame spread over extruded polystyrene (XPS) foam at a high elevation is presented. The flame shape, flame height, mass loss rate and flame spread rate were measured. The influences of width and high altitude were investigated. The flame fronts are approximately horizontal. Both the intensity of flame pulsation and the average flame height increase with the rise of sample width. The flame spread rate first drops and then rises with an increase in width. The average flame height, mass loss rate and flame spread rate at the higher elevation is smaller than that at a low elevation, which demonstrates that the XPS fire risk at the higher elevation area is lower. The experimental results agree well with the theoretical analysis. This work is vital to the fire safety design of building energy conservation system.


1998 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 367-367
Author(s):  
S.D. Van Dyk ◽  
M.J. Montes ◽  
K.W. Weiler ◽  
R.A. Sramek ◽  
N. Panagia

The radio emission from supernovae provides a direct probe of a supernova’s circumstellar environment, which presumably was established by mass-loss episodes in the late stages of the progenitor’s presupernova evolution. The observed synchrotron emission is generated by the SN shock interacting with the relatively high-density circumstellar medium which has been fully ionized and heated by the initial UV/X-ray flash. The study of radio supernovae therefore provides many clues to and constraints on stellar evolution. We will present the recent results on several cases, including SN 1980K, whose recent abrupt decline provides us with a stringent constraint on the progenitor’s initial mass; SN 1993J, for which the profile of the wind matter supports the picture of the progenitor’s evolution in an interacting binary system; and SN 1979C, where a clear change in presupernova mass-loss rate occurred about 104 years before explosion. Other examples, such as SNe 19941 and 1996cb, will also be discussed.


2018 ◽  
Vol 136 ◽  
pp. 18-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianluca Greco ◽  
María Videgain ◽  
Christian Di Stasi ◽  
Belén González ◽  
Joan J. Manyà

1996 ◽  
Vol 174 ◽  
pp. 357-358
Author(s):  
I. Saviane ◽  
G. Piotto ◽  
M. Capaccioli ◽  
F. Fagotto

The bimodal nature of the horizontal branch (HB) of NGC 1851 is known since Stetson (1981). In order to better understand the properties of its HB, we collected a set of data at the ESO-NTT telescope, which provides a full coverage of the cluster area. Additional archive images from the HST-WFPC camera have been used in order to study the central region. The resulting c-m diagram (CMD) for 20500 stars is presented in Fig. 1 (left). Despite its metallicity ([Fe/H]=−1.3), NGC 1851 presents a well defined blue HB tail, besides the expected red clump. The observed CMD has been compared with the synthetic ones. The bimodal HB can be reproduced assuming that there are two stellar populations in the cluster, with an age difference of ∼ 4 Gyr, hypothesis not supported by other properties of the CMD. On the other side, if we assume that the stars in NGC 1851 are 15 Gyr old (as suggested by the difference between the HB and the TO luminosities), only a bimodal mass loss can reproduce the HB morphology: only stars with higher than standard mass loss rate are able to populate the blue-HB (BHB) tail (Fig. 1,left). There are no observational evidences for a bimodal distribution of other parameters (He, CNO, etc.).


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