Numerical Simulation of Mechanical Compaction of Deepwater Shallow Sediments

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摘要 Tostudythecompactionlawandoverpressureevolutionindeepwatershallowsediments,alarge-straincompactionmodelthatconsidersmaterialnonlinearityandmovingboundaryisformulated.Themodelconsidersthedependenceofpermeabilityandmaterialpropertiesonvoidratio.ThemodifiedCam-Claymodelisselectedastheconstitutiverelationsofthesediments,andthedeactivation/reactivationmethodisusedtocapturethemovingtopsurfaceduringthedepositionprocess.Aone-dimensionalmodelisusedtostudythecompactionlawoftheshallowsediments.Resultsshowthatthesettlementoftheshallowsedimentsislargeundertheirownweightduringcompaction.Thevoidratiodecreasesstrictlywithburialdepthanddecreasesmorequicklyneartheseafloorthaninthedeeperlayers.Thegenerationofabnormalpressureintheshallowflowsandsiscloselyrelatedtothecompactionlawofshallowsediments.Thetwomainfactorsthataffectthegenerationofoverpressureinthesandsaredepositionrateandpermeabilityofoverlyingclaysediments.Overpressureincreaseswithanincreaseindepositionrateandadecreaseinthepermeabilityoftheoverlyingclaysediment.Moreover,anupperlimitfortheoverpressureexists.Atwo-dimensionalmodelisusedtostudythedifferentialcompactionoftheshallowsediments.Theporepressurewillstillincreaseduetotheinflowoftheporefluidfromtheneighboringclaysedimenteventhoughthedepositionprocessisinterrupted.
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出版日期 2018年01月11日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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