Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
Table 1.
summarized some physical and mechanical properties of Mt. erciyes products.
Rock type
Properties*
i
ii
iii
iV
V
Vi
g
d
(kn/m
3
)
18.78
18.10
18.80
26.86
19.79
15.42
g
sat.
(kn/m
3
)
20.38
19.96
20.40
27.14
21.35
18.60
Porosity (%)
16.37
19.11
16.43
2.83
15.96
26.72
P-wave
Velocity-dry (m/s)
1921
3369
2312
4760
2765
1954
P-wave Velocity-saturated
(m/s)
1619
3399
1657
5339
2727
1742
Thermal conductivity
coefficient (W/mk)
0.767
0.924
0.838
0.850
0.63
0.784
Ucs (MPa)
36.71
52.31
42.1
175.19
73.22
24.95
* Mean Values (i: Pumice; ii: andesite; iii: Beige tuff; iV: Basalt; V: ignimbrite; iV: Red tuff).
Unit weight kN/m
3
UCS vs P-wave velocity
y = 0.0472x - 67.067
R
2
= 0.8593
30
200
25
150
20
Dry
Saturated
15
100
10
5
50
0
0
0
3000
4000
5000
1000
2000
P-wave velocity-dry (m/s)
Figure 5.
Dry and saturated unit weights of the rocks.
Figure 8.
Relationship between P-wave velocity and Ucs.
y = -1.976x + 55.016
R
2
= 0.9666
Dry Unit Weight vs Porosity
P-wave velocity (m/s)
6000
30
5000
25
4000
20
dry
saturated
3000
15
2000
10
1000
5
0
0
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
Porosity (%)
Figure 6.
Dry and saturated P-wave velocities of the
Figure 9.
Relationship between porosity and dry unit
rocks.
weight.
Dry Unite Weight vs UCS
y = 13.949x - 206.35
R
2
= 0.9405
Thermal Conductivity Coefficient (W/mK) at 373 K
200
1.000
0.900
0.800
150
0.700
0.600
100
0.500
0.400
0.300
50
0.200
0.100
0.000
0
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
Dry Unit Weight (kN/m
3
)
Figure 7.
Thermal conductivity coefficient of the
Figure 10.
Relationship between Thermal conductivity
rocks.
and Ucs.
