Determination Method of Rock Mass Hydraulic Conductivity Tensor Based on Back-Analysis of Fracture Transmissivity and Fracture Network Model

Author(s):  
Li Xiaozhao ◽  
Ji Chengliang ◽  
Wang Ju ◽  
Zhao Xiaobao ◽  
Wang Zhitao ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammadreza Jalali ◽  
Zhen Fang ◽  
Pooya Hamdi

<p>The presence of fractures and discontinuities in the intact rock affects the hydraulic, thermal, chemical and mechanical behavior of the underground structures. Various techniques have been developed to provide information on the spatial distribution of these complex features. LIDAR, for instance, could provide a 2D fracture network model of the outcrop, Geophysical borehole logs such as OPTV and ATV can be used to investigate 1D geometrical data (i.e. dip and dip direction, aperture) of the intersected fractures, and seismic survey can mainly offer a large structure distribution of the deep structures. The ability to combine all the existing data collected from various resources and different scales to construct a 3D discrete fracture network (DFN) model of the rock mass allows to adequately represent the physical behavior of the interested subsurface structure.</p><p>In this study, an effort on the construction of such a 3D DFN model is carried out via combination of various structural and hydrogeological data collected in fractured crystalline rock. During the pre-characterization phase of the In-situ Stimulation and Circulation (ISC) experiment [Amann et al., 2018] at the Grimsel Test Site (GTS) in central Switzerland, a comprehensive characterization campaign was carried out to better understand the hydromechanical characteristics of the existing structures. The collected multiscale and multidisciplinary data such as OPTV, ATV, hydraulic packer testing and solute tracer tests [Jalali et al., 2018; Krietsch et al., 2018] are combined, analyzed and interpreted to form a combined stochastic and deterministic DFN model using the FracMan software [Golder Associates, 2017]. For further validation of the model, the results from in-situ hydraulic tests are used to compare the simulated and measured hydraulic responses, allowing to evaluate whether the simulated model could reasonably represent the characteristics of the fracture network in the ISC experiment.</p><p> </p><p><strong>References</strong></p><ul><li>Amann, F., Gischig, V., Evans, K., Doetsch, J., Jalali, M., Valley, B., Krietsch, H., Dutler, N., Villiger, L., Brixel, B., Klepikova, M., Kittilä, A., Madonna, C., Wiemer, S., Saar, M.O., Loew, S., Driesner, T., Maurer, H., Giardini, D., 2018. The seismo-hydromechanical behavior during deep geothermal reservoir stimulations: open questions tackled in a decameter-scale in situ stimulation experiment. Solid Earth 9, 115–137.</li> <li>Golder Associates, 2017. FracMan User Documentation.  Golder Associates Inc, Redmond WA.</li> <li>Krietsch, H., Doetsch, J., Dutler, N., Jalali, M., Gischig, V., Loew, S., Amann, F., 2018. Comprehensive geological dataset describing a crystalline rock mass for hydraulic stimulation experiments. Scientific Data 5, 180269.</li> <li>Jalali, M., Klepikova, M., Doetsch, J., Krietsch, H., Brixel, B., Dutler, N., Gischig, V., Amann, F., 2018. A Multi-Scale Approach to Identify and Characterize the Preferential Flow Paths of a Fractured Crystalline Rock. Presented at the 2<sup>nd</sup> International Discrete Fracture Network Engineering Conference, American Rock Mechanics Association.</li> </ul>


2014 ◽  
Vol 580-583 ◽  
pp. 679-683
Author(s):  
Chun Xiu Han ◽  
Dong Hua Zhou ◽  
Wen Yuan Liao ◽  
Xu Chen ◽  
Long Qi Li ◽  
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Based on field investigation of random fractured rock mass, the sample parameters are put to statistical analysis, and 2-D fracture network model is established with probability-statistics theory and Monte-Carlo simulation technique. Finally, 2-D fracture network model is formed, which gain fracture distributed regularity in statistical sense, and is of important meaning to describe the fracture geometrical characteristics.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 667 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yushan Zhu ◽  
Xiaoling Wang ◽  
Shaohui Deng ◽  
Wenlong Chen ◽  
Zuzhi Shi ◽  
...  

Grouting has always been the main engineering measure of ground improvement and foundation remediation of hydraulic structures. Due to complex geological conditions and the interactions between the grout and the fractured rock mass, which poses a serious challenge to the grouting diffusion mechanism analysis, fracture grouting has been a research hotspot for a long time. In order to throw light on the grout diffusion process in the fractured rock mass and the influence of grout on the fracture network, and to achieve more realistic grouting numerical simulation, in this paper a grouting process simulation approach considering fluid–structure interaction is developed based on the 3D fractured network model. Firstly, the relationship between fracture apertures and trace lengths is used to obtain a more realistic value of fracture aperture; then a more reliable model is established; subsequently, based on the 3D fracture network model, different numerical models are established to calculate fluid dynamics (grout) and structure deformation (fractured rock mass), and the results are exchanged at the fluid–structure interface to realize the grouting process simulation using two-way fluid-structure interaction method. Finally, the approach is applied to analyze the grouting performance of a hydropower station X, and the results show that the grouting simulation considering fluid–structure interaction are more realistic and can simultaneously reveal the diffusion of grout and the deformation of fracture, which indicates that it is necessary to consider the effect of fluid–structure interaction in grouting simulation. The results can provide more valuable information for grouting construction.


2014 ◽  
Vol 580-583 ◽  
pp. 857-861
Author(s):  
Bin Pan ◽  
Yang Song Zhang

Fractured rock is a combination of rocks and fractures,the fractures which are ubiquitously distributed in fractured rock mass often constitute the flow and migration path of underground fluid and radionuclide.Discrete Fracture Network Model (DFN) was built with in-situ observations to evaluate the hydraulic conductivity tensor of rock masses.The fractures relation pattern with corresponding algorithm is given on the basis of computational geometric,and then the graph theory is employed as the mathematical model to represent the mutual positional relation of fractures.And then,with the use of Dijkstra algorithm, the hydraulic conductivity tensor could be obtained.


2009 ◽  
Vol 46 (7) ◽  
pp. 828-841 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Michel Lemieux ◽  
Donna Kirkwood ◽  
René Therrien

A detailed structural survey has been conducted on a fractured sedimentary rock formation in the St-Eustache quarry, Quebec, Canada, to supplement a hydrogeological study. The two main types of discontinuities in the quarry are horizontal bedding planes and vertical joints. The fracture network is classified as a stratabound network that could be considered as an equivalent porous medium (EPM) for groundwater flow for a volume of rock of 25 to 100 m3. Using detailed statistical data of the fracture network, a geometric model is used to infer a range of hydraulic conductivity values for the low permeability fractures not directly measured with hydraulic tests and treated as EPM for their interpretation. This analysis shows that the vertical and horizontal fractures have about the same permeability in the rock mass, except for a few high hydraulic-conductivity bedding planes. Hydraulic conductivity of single fractures ranges between 1.7 × 10−3 and 1.7 × 10−1 m/s. The porosity of the bulk rock mass inferred from fracture spacing measurements was found to be between 0.03% and 0.3%. Because vertical boreholes provide limited information on vertical fractures, the interpretation of hydraulic tests at the site was greatly improved by the structural surveys.


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