The mechanical characteristics of rock masses anchored with bolts play a critical role in anchored slope and underground buildings. In this study, the components and their mixing ratios of similar materials, such as rock masses, are simulated. The materials similar to the anchored bolts and cement are selected. The physical and mechanic properties of these materials are tested. Based on these, an experimental model and a method are designed with a focus on a uniaxial compression test on anchored rock masses. A series of tests on the anchored specimens’ uniaxial compression strength are conducted under the conditions of varying numbers and installations of anchor bolts. The results reveal that compared with the specimens without anchor bolts, the peak strength, elastic modulus, and shear strength of the specimens with both perpendicular and horizontal bolts are improved. Furthermore, it is indicated that the improvement attributable to the horizontal bolts is slightly lower than that with vertical bolts. T...

Perched water zone occurs in the subsurface of the slope under heavy rainfall or above an impeding layer with relatively low permeability. It causes a decrease in the shear strength of the soil and the increase in the loading on the slope. As the most used method of estimate the slope stability, the limit equilibrium method considers the influence of rainfall infiltration on the slope stability by increasing the underground water table and decreasing the shear strength parameters on the slip surface. However, the contribution of perched pore water pressure is usually ignored. To incorporate the effect of perched water pressure into the stability analysis, the Bishop’s simplified method and Janbu’s simplified method are modified to perform stability analysis in the situation of circular and composite slip surfaces, respectively. The detailed methodology and numerical implement procedure are presented. Then, three examples are adopted to verify the proposed methods and to investigate the impact of the perched water zone on slope stability. The results show that the program developed in this study has considerable accuracy compared to commercial software. The pore water pressure in the perched water zone has important impacts on slope stability, especially when the depth of the perched water zone is greater than 4 m. Ignoring the perched pore water pressure in the slope stability analysis might overestimate the safety status of the slope.

During the operation of underground water-sealed oil storage caverns, a large amount of oil vapor is generated due to volatilization. Oil vapor can easily leak into the surrounding rock, and fractures in the surrounding rock are usually the dominant channels for oil vapor leakage. To study the influence of fractures on oil vapor leakage and migration in underground water-sealed oil storage caverns during the oil storage period, a gas–liquid two-phase flow model of the fracture–pore dual medium in fractured rock mass was established. The program was implemented on the COMSOL platform by using weak-form PDE (partial differential equation). Then, taking an underground water-sealed cavern of an oil reserve as an example, the influence of the characteristic parameters of a single fracture on the evolution process of oil vapor leakage and migration during the oil storage period of the underground water-sealed oil storage cavern was studied. The results were further applied to the Huangdao underground oil depot project. The results show that the spatial distribution of oil vapor leakage is mainly affected by fractures. Through parameter sensitivity analysis, it was found that the geometric characteristic parameters of fractures will have a certain impact on the migration field of oil vapor leakage in underground caverns. Specifically, fracture permeability (k_f), fracture width (d_f), and fracture inclination (θ) are positively correlated with oil vapor leakage parameters (oil vapor leakage range and leakage volume), while the distance between the fracture and the middle cavern (s) is negatively correlated with oil vapor leakage parameters (oil vapor leakage range and leakage volume). The relative influence of fracture geometry parameters on the migration process of oil vapor leakage during the oil storage period of the underground water-sealed oil storage cavern is in the following order: k_f> d_f> s > θ. Engineering application shows that the existence of fractures affects the spatial distribution of oil vapor leakage and migration, and the relationship between oil vapor leakage parameters and oil storage operation time is a positive power function. The gas–liquid two-phase flow model of the fracture–pore dual medium in fractured rock mass developed in this study could offer a numerical simulation tool to assess and mitigate the risk of oil vapor leakage. The research conclusions can provide some references for related problems encountered in similar projects.

The contradiction between supply and demand of energy leads to more and more attention on the large-scale energy storage technology; Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) technology is a new energy storage technology that is widely concerned in the world. The research of coupled heat transfer and seepage in fractured surrounding rocks is the necessary basis to evaluate the operation safety and effectiveness of CAES. Current studies point to the possibility of cracking in concrete liner seals, but the thermodynamic processes and leakage characteristics of compressed air in the presence of cracking and the heat transfer characteristics of seepage have not been addressed and reported. In order to investigate the leakage, the gas seepage and heat transfer law in fractured rock when the hard rock CAES gas reservoir seal cracks, the COMSOL fracture Darcy module, and the non-Darcy Forchheimer model are used as the constitutive seepage. The global ODE is used to calculate the thermodynamic process of compressed air in gas storage with coupled seepage and heat transfer process. The pressure and temperature of compressed air are obtained as the unsteady boundary of the seepage heat transfer model. A program for calculating the seepage and heat transfer characteristics of fractured surrounding rock in the CAES gas reservoir is established. On this basis, with the proposed Suichang CAES cavern as the background, the seepage and heat transfer characteristics of the fractured surrounding rock of the gas storage are studied. The results showed that when there are fewer cracks in the lining and surrounding rock of the air reservoir, the air pressure decreases due to a small amount of air leakage after 30 operation cycles, and the leakage rate of each cycle is 0.7 of the gas storage capacity, but it still meets the engineering requirements. If the plant is operating under these conditions, the charging rate will need to be increased by 1.2kg/s per cycle charging stage. In the discharging and power generation phase, the high-pressure air that previously percolated into the rock mass cracks could flow back into the air storage through the lining cracks. Therefore, it is incorrect and unreliable to consider the gas which flows out from the inner surface of the lining as unusable. When the lining crack width is less than 0.3mm, the seepage flow is Darcy flow and the non-Darcy effect can be ignored; when the lining crack width is greater than 0.5mm, the non-Darcy effect of seepage cannot be ignored. The gas velocity in the surrounding rock fracture medium is on the order of 0.01m/s with an influence range of over 100m, and the gas velocity in the pore medium is on the order of 10^-6m/s with an influence range of 50m. The findings of this study contribute to a better understanding of the interaction between the thermodynamic properties of compressed air and the seepage heat transfer process in compressed air storage underground reservoirs, as well as the gas leakage process in the event of liner seal cracking.