scholarly journals Experimental Study on the Influence of Moisture Content on the Mechanical Properties of Coal

Geofluids ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Mingxing Gao ◽  
Yongli Liu

Water injection in coal seams will lead to the increase of moisture content in coal, which plays an essential role in the physical and mechanical properties of coal. In order to study the influence of moisture content on the mechanical properties of soft media, the forming pressure (20 MPa) and particle size ratio (0-1 mm (50%), 1-2 mm (25%), and 2-3 mm (25%)) during briquette preparation were firstly determined in this paper. Briquettes with different moisture contents (3%, 6%, 9%, 12%, and 15%) were prepared by using self-developed briquettes. Uniaxial and triaxial compression tests were carried out using the RMT-150C rock mechanics test system. The results show that the uniaxial compressive strength and elastic modulus of briquette samples increase first and then decrease with the increase of briquette water, while Poisson’s ratio decreases first and then increases with the increase of briquette water. When the moisture content is around 9%, the maximum uniaxial compressive strength is 0.866 MPa, the maximum elastic modulus is 1.385 GPa, and Poisson’s ratio is at the minimum of 0.259. The compressive strength of briquettes increases with the increase of confining pressure. With the increase of moisture content, the cohesion and internal friction angle of briquettes first increased and then decreased.

Geofluids ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Liu ◽  
Shaojie Chen ◽  
Shuai Wang ◽  
Jing Chai ◽  
Dingding Zhang

A new type of similar material considering water characteristics is developed through orthogonal experiments. The similar material is composed of river sand, barite powder, cement, gypsum, and water. We determine the best test development process. First, the proportion test scheme is designed based on the orthogonal test. Then, the effects of the moisture content, mass ratio of aggregate to binder and other components on the density, uniaxial compressive strength, elastic model, and Poisson’s ratio of similar materials are analyzed by range analysis. Finally, the multiple linear regression equation between the parameters and the composition of similar materials is obtained, and the optimal composition ratio is determined according to the relationship between the test’s influencing factors and the mechanical properties of similar materials. The results show that the selected raw materials and their proportioning method are feasible. The content of barite powder plays a major role in controlling the density and Poisson’s ratio of similar materials. The mass ratio of aggregate to binder is the main factor that affects the uniaxial compressive strength and elastic modulus of similar materials, while the moisture content has the second largest effect on the density, uniaxial compressive strength, elastic modulus, and Poisson’s ratio of similar materials. When the residual moisture content increased from 0 to 4%, the uniaxial compressive strength and elastic modulus of similar materials decrease by 49.5% and 53.3%, respectively, and Poisson’s ratio increases by 54.8%. Determining the residual moisture content that matches the design of similar material model tests is critical to improving the test accuracy and provides a reference to prepare similar materials with different requirements.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meng Meng ◽  
Luke Frash ◽  
James Carey ◽  
Wenfeng Li ◽  
Nathan Welch ◽  
...  

Abstract Accurate characterization of oilwell cement mechanical properties is a prerequisite for maintaining long-term wellbore integrity. The drawback of the most widely used technique is unable to measure the mechanical property under in situ curing environment. We developed a high pressure and high temperature vessel that can hydrate cement under downhole conditions and directly measure its elastic modulus and Poisson's ratio at any interested time point without cooling or depressurization. The equipment has been validated by using water and a reasonable bulk modulus of 2.37 GPa was captured. Neat Class G cement was hydrated in this equipment for seven days under axial stress of 40 MPa, and an in situ measurement in the elastic range shows elastic modulus of 37.3 GPa and Poisson's ratio of 0.15. After that, the specimen was taken out from the vessel, and setted up in the triaxial compression platform. Under a similar confining pressure condition, elastic modulus was 23.6 GPa and Possion's ratio was 0.26. We also measured the properties of cement with the same batch of the slurry but cured under ambient conditions. The elastic modulus was 1.63 GPa, and Poisson's ratio was 0.085. Therefore, we found that the curing condition is significant to cement mechanical property, and the traditional cooling or depressurization method could provide mechanical properties that were quite different (50% difference) from the in situ measurement.


2011 ◽  
Vol 250-253 ◽  
pp. 1452-1455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lu Bo Meng ◽  
Tian Bin Li ◽  
Liang Wen Jiang ◽  
Hong Min Ma

High temperature conventional triaxial compression test of shale are carried out by the MTS815 servo-controlled testing machine, based on the experimental results, the relationships between temperature and shale peak strength, elastic modulus, Poisson's ratio, cohesion, internal friction angle are investigated. Although the experimental results are discrete comparatively, the general law is obvious. When the confining pressure imposed on shale is constant and the temperature changes form 25°C to 120°C, with the increasing of the temperature, the triaxial compression strength, shear strength gradually increase, while average elastic modulus, Poisson's ratio has a slightly decrease. The thermal stress generated by the high temperature plays a role to accommodate the deformation and the function of preventing crack propagation, thus the bearing capacity of shale samples are strengthened. But the influence of temperature on shale mechanical properties mutates when the temperature is at 80°C. Shale peak strength dramatically decreased, average elastic modulus decreased slightly, and Poisson's ratio also increased slightly, which indicated that at 80°C, different thermal expansivity of mineral particles of shale may cause cross-grain boundary thermal expansion incongruous, creating additional thermal stress, thus the sample’s bearing capacity decreased.


Materials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
pp. 3244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Baino ◽  
Elisa Fiume

Porosity is recognized to play a key role in dictating the functional properties of bioactive scaffolds, especially the mechanical performance of the material. The mechanical suitability of brittle ceramic and glass scaffolds for bone tissue engineering applications is usually evaluated on the basis of the compressive strength alone, which is relatively easy to assess. This work aims to investigate the porosity dependence of the elastic properties of silicate scaffolds based on the 45S5 composition. Highly porous glass–ceramic foams were fabricated by the sponge replica method and their elastic modulus, shear modulus, and Poisson’s ratio were experimentally determined by the impulse excitation technique; furthermore, the failure strength was quantified by compressive tests. As the total fractional porosity increased from 0.52 to 0.86, the elastic and shear moduli decreased from 16.5 to 1.2 GPa and from 6.5 to 0.43 GPa, respectively; the compressive strength was also found to decrease from 3.4 to 0.58 MPa, whereas the Poisson’s ratio increased from 0.2692 to 0.3953. The porosity dependences of elastic modulus, shear modulus and compressive strength obeys power-law models, whereas the relationship between Poisson’s ratio and porosity can be described by a linear approximation. These relations can be useful to optimize the design and fabrication of porous biomaterials as well as to predict the mechanical properties of the scaffolds.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Lizhuang Cui ◽  
Nan Qin ◽  
Shuai Wang ◽  
Xuezhi Feng

In order to study the mechanical properties of sandstone under the coupling action of chemical erosion and freeze-thaw cycles, the fine-grained yellow sandstone in a mining area in Zigong, China, is collected as the research object. The changes in mechanical properties of yellow sandstone under the coupling action of chemical solution erosion and freeze-thaw cycles are analyzed based on uniaxial compression tests (UCTs) and triaxial compression tests (TCTs). The results show that, with the increase in freeze-thaw cycles, the compressive strength, elastic modulus, and cohesion of the sandstone samples decrease with varying degrees. Under constant freeze-thaw cycles, the most serious mechanical properties of degradation are observed in acidic solution, followed by alkaline solution and neutral solution. Under different confining pressures, the compressive strength and elastic modulus of the sandstone samples decrease exponentially with the increase in freeze-thaw cycles. Under the action of the chemical solution erosion and freeze-thaw cycles, the internal friction angle fluctuates around 30°. For the cohesion degradation, 35.4%, 29.3%, and 27.2% degradation are observed under acidic, alkaline, and neutral solutions. Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging shows that the chemical erosion and freeze-thaw cycles both promote the degradation of rock properties from surface to interior; after 45 freeze-thaw cycles, the mechanical properties drop sharply. To properly design rock tunneling support and long-term protection in the cold region, the impact of both freeze-thaw cycles and chemical erosion should be considered.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Han Meng ◽  
Yuzhong Yang ◽  
Liyun Wu ◽  
Fei Wang ◽  
Lei Peng

Briquette coals with different cement contents are frequently used to study the coal body’s properties. In this study, the deformation and strength of briquette coal samples with 0, 5, 10, and 20% cement contents were experimentally and theoretically investigated using the acoustic emission (AE) characteristics monitored during the uniaxial compression tests. The results show that the uniaxial compression process of raw coal and briquette coal samples can be subdivided into compaction, elastic, plastic (yield), and brittle failure stages. With an increase in cement content, briquette coal samples undergo the elastic and plastic stages, and their postpeak stress drop rate gradually grows, and their plastic deformation is followed by brittle failure. The uniaxial compressive strength and elastic modulus of briquette coal samples show a linearly increasing relationship with cement content, while their Poisson’s ratio decreases gradually. During the uniaxial compression, raw coal and briquette coal samples produce the AE signals. The overall AE signal of briquette coal samples is relatively low, and there are no obvious AE events in raw coal samples. The uniaxial compressive strength, elastic modulus, and Poisson’s ratio of briquette coal samples with a 20% cement content and their AE signal cumulative amplitude, count, and energy values are very close to the corresponding parameters of raw coal samples. Therefore, they can be used for simulating raw coal samples in laboratory tests.


Processes ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiyuan Huang ◽  
Junjie Wang ◽  
Zhenfeng Qiu ◽  
Kai Kang

The influence of water on the mechanical properties of rock is vital for determining the rock stability when subjected to changes of water conditions. In this paper, a series of uniaxial compression tests were conducted to investigate effects of cyclic wetting and drying on the mechanical properties of sandstone and mudstone collected from Chongqing city, China. The results showed that both elastic modulus and uniaxial compressive strength of sandstone and mudstone were reduced by wetting and drying cycles, and that the degradation rate of the two mechanic parameters of mudstone was always larger than sandstone. The parameters, including water adsorption, degradation degree of elastic modulus, degradation degree of uniaxial compressive strength, increase with the increase of the wetting-drying cycles (N). The relationship between these three parameters and the value of N + 1 could be well fitted by logarithmic curves. The average degradation degree was also used to describe the degradation of per time wetting-drying cycles. It is found that the average degradation degree of elastic modulus and uniaxial compressive strength decrease with the increase of wetting-drying cycles. Moreover, the relationships between the mechanical properties and the porosity are presented, which can be fitted by linear curves. In the cyclic wetting-drying process, the elastic modulus and the uniaxial compressive strength decreased with the porosity increasing, and the degradation rates of sandstone mechanic parameters were higher than those of mudstone.


Author(s):  
P .S.K.Murthy ◽  
Sachin Gupta ◽  
Dhirendra Kumar ◽  
Mahabir Dixit

The interconnection of vesicles in basaltic flows greatly affects the engineering properties such as uniaxial compressive strength, modulus of elasticity, Poisson’s ratio, tensile strength and sonic velocities. Sometimes these vesicles are filled with secondary minerals such as quartz/olivine/calcite form as amygdules (which are impermeable). In the present study, to understand effect of porosity, vesicular and amygdular basaltic flows collected from central and west-central India were investigated for these engineering properties and correlated with apparent porosity of core samples. It is observed that a good level of correlation is obtained for uniaxial compressive strength (UCS), elastic modulus (E) and Poisson’s ratio in vesicular basalts when porosity >8-10%. In case of Brazilian strengths a linearly downward trend is observed with the increase in porosity values. And, no significant correlation is observed for waves’ velocities in both variants of basalts.


Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 2303
Author(s):  
Congyu Zhong ◽  
Liwen Cao ◽  
Jishi Geng ◽  
Zhihao Jiang ◽  
Shuai Zhang

Because of its weak cementation and abundant pores and cracks, it is difficult to obtain suitable samples of tectonic coal to test its mechanical properties. Therefore, the research and development of coalbed methane drilling and mining technology are restricted. In this study, tectonic coal samples are remodeled with different particle sizes to test the mechanical parameters and loading resistivity. The research results show that the particle size and gradation of tectonic coal significantly impact its uniaxial compressive strength and elastic modulus and affect changes in resistivity. As the converted particle size increases, the uniaxial compressive strength and elastic modulus decrease first and then tend to remain unchanged. The strength of the single-particle gradation coal sample decreases from 0.867 to 0.433 MPa and the elastic modulus decreases from 59.28 to 41.63 MPa with increasing particle size. The change in resistivity of the coal sample increases with increasing particle size, and the degree of resistivity variation decreases during the coal sample failure stage. In composite-particle gradation, the proportion of fine particles in the tectonic coal sample increases from 33% to 80%. Its strength and elastic modulus increase from 0.996 to 1.31 MPa and 83.96 to 125.4 MPa, respectively, and the resistivity change degree decreases. The proportion of medium particles or coarse particles increases, and the sample strength, elastic modulus, and resistivity changes all decrease.


Author(s):  
John J. Quicksall ◽  
Robert L. Jackson ◽  
Itzhak Green

This work uses the finite element technique to model the elasto-plastic deformation of a hemisphere contacting a rigid flat for various material properties typical of aluminum, bronze, copper, titanium and malleable cast iron. Additionally, this work conducted parametric FEM tests on a generic material in which the elastic modulus and Poisson’s ratio are varied independently while the yield strength is held constant. A larger spectrum of material properties are covered in this work than in most previous works. The results are compared to two previously formulated elasto-plastic models simulating the deformation of a hemisphere in contact with a rigid flat. Both of the previously formulated models use carbon steel mechanical properties to arrive at empirical formulations implied to pertain to various materials. While both models considered several carbon steels with varying yield strengths, they did not test materials with varying Poisson’s ratio or elastic modulus. The previously generated elasto-plastic models give fairly good predictions when compared to the FEM results for various material properties from the current work, except that one model produces more accurate predictions overall, especially at large deformations where other models neglect important trends due to decreases in “hardness” with increasing deformation.


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