scholarly journals Acoustic Velocity and Attenuation in Porous Rocks

Author(s):  
Kenneth W. Winkler ◽  
William F. Murphy
2012 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaohui CHEN ◽  
Xunhua ZHANG ◽  
Tiegang LI ◽  
Rihui LI ◽  
Zhongbo WANG

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 2495
Author(s):  
Belén Ferrer ◽  
María-Baralida Tomás ◽  
David Mas

Some materials undergo hygric expansion when soaked. In porous rocks, this effect is enhanced by the pore space, because it allows water to reach every part of its volume and to hydrate most swelling parts. In the vicinity, this enlargement has negative structural consequences as adjacent elements support some compressions or displacements. In this work, we propose a normalized cross-correlation between rock surface texture images to determine the hygric expansion of such materials. We used small porous sandstone samples (11 × 11 × 30 mm3) to measure hygric swelling. The experimental setup comprised an industrial digital camera and a telecentric objective. We took one image every 5 min for 3 h to characterize the whole swelling process. An error analysis of both the mathematical and experimental methods was performed. The results showed that the proposed methodology provided, despite some limitations, reliable hygric swelling information by a non-contact methodology with an accuracy of 1 micron and permitted the deformation in both the vertical and horizontal directions to be explored, which is an advantage over traditional linear variable displacement transformers.


Author(s):  
Nuno Vieira da Silva ◽  
Joanna Morgan ◽  
Mike Warner ◽  
Adrian Umpleby ◽  
Ivan Stekl

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