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Numerical Simulation of Triaxial Compression Test Using the GREAT Cell: Hydro-Mechanical Experiment

GREAT 셀을 이용한 삼축압축시험의 수치모사: 수리역학 실험

  • Dohyun Park (Deep Subsurface Storage and Disposal Research Center, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources) ;
  • Chan-Hee Park (Deep Subsurface Storage and Disposal Research Center, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
  • 박도현 (한국지질자원연구원 심층처분환경연구센터) ;
  • 박찬희 (한국지질자원연구원 심층처분환경연구센터)
  • Received : 2023.04.03
  • Accepted : 2023.04.18
  • Published : 2023.04.30
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Abstract

Unlike the conventional triaxial test cells for cylindrical specimens, which impose uniform lateral confining pressures, the GREAT (Geo-Reservoir Experimental Analogue Technology) cell can exert differential radial stresses using eight independently-controlled pairs of lateral loading elements and thereby generate horizontal stress fields with various magnitudes and orientations. In the preceding companion paper, GREAT cell tests were numerically simulated under different mechanical loading conditions and the validity of the numerical model was investigated by comparing experimental and numerical results for circumferential strain. In the present study, we simulated GREAT cell tests for an artificial sample containing a fracture under both mechanical loading and fluid flow conditions. The numerical simulation was carried out by varying the mechanical properties of the fracture surface, which were unknown. The numerical responses (circumferential strains) of the sample were compared with experimental data and a good match was found between the numerical and experimental results under certain mechanical conditions of the fracture surface. Additionally, the effect of fluid flow conditions on the mechanical behavior of the sample was investigated and discussed.

원통형 시료의 측면에 일정하게 구속압이 적용되는 통상적인 삼축시험 셀과는 달리, GREAT 셀은 독립적으로 제어되는 8쌍의 측면 가압장치들을 이용하여 차등적으로 구속압을 가할 수 있고, 이를 통해 다양한 크기와 방향의 수평 응력장을 생성시킬 수 있다. 본 연구의 선행 논문에서는 다양한 역학적 재하 조건에서 GREAT 셀 시험을 수치해석적으로 모사하고, 원주변형률에 대한 수치해석 및 실험측정 결과를 비교하여 적용된 수치모델의 적정성을 분석하였다. 본 연구에서는 역학적 재하 조건과 유체흐름 조건을 함께 고려하여 균열이 포함된 인공시료에 대한 GREAT 셀 시험을 수치모사하였다. 값이 알려지지 않은 균열면의 역학적 물성을 다양하게 설정하여 시료의 거동(원주변형률)에 대한 수치해석과 실험 결과를 비교하였으며, 균열면의 특정 역학적 조건에서 실험결과와 잘 일치하는 것으로 검토되었다. 추가적으로 유체흐름 조건이 시료의 역학적 거동에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다.

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Acknowledgement

본 연구는 한국지질자원연구원의 기본사업인 '심지층 개발과 활용을 위한 지하심부 특성평가 기술개발(과제코드 GP2020-010)'의 일환으로 수행되었습니다.

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