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Material model for shear of the buffer - evaluation of laboratory test results

Abstract

The report describes the material model of bentonite used for analysing a rock shear through a deposition hole. The old model used in SR-Can has been considerably changed. The new reference model that has been developed for SR-Site is described and motivated. The relevant properties of the buffer that affect the response to a rock shear are (in addition to the bentonite type) the density (which yields a swelling pressure), the shear strength, the stiffness before the maximum shear stress is reached and the shear rate, which also affects the shear strength. Since the shear caused by an earthquake is very fast and the hydraulic conductivity of the bentonite is very low there is no possibility for the pore water in the water saturated bentonite to be redistributed. Since the compressibility of water and particles are negligible, the bentonite can be modelled as a solid material that cannot change volume but only exhibit shear deformations. A proper and simple model that behaves accordingly is a model with von Mises' stress modelled as a function of the strain (stress-strain model). The model is elastic-plastic with an E-modulus that determines the behaviour until the material starts yielding whereupon the plastic strain is  More>>
Authors:
Boergesson, Lennart; Dueck, Ann; Johannesson, Lars-Erik [1] 
  1. Clay Technology AB (Sweden)
Publication Date:
Dec 15, 2010
Product Type:
Technical Report
Report Number:
SKB-TR-10-31
Resource Relation:
Other Information: 8 refs., figs., tabs.
Subject:
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; UNDERGROUND DISPOSAL; BENTONITE; EARTHQUAKES; TESTING; MATERIALS; SHEAR; STRAINS
OSTI ID:
1011604
Research Organizations:
Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Co., Stockholm (Sweden)
Country of Origin:
Sweden
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: ISSN 1404-0344; TRN: SE1108080
Availability:
Also available from: http://www.skb.se/upload/publications/pdf/TR-10-31webb.pdf; OSTI as DE01011604
Submitting Site:
SWDN
Size:
23 p. pages
Announcement Date:
Apr 25, 2011

Citation Formats

Boergesson, Lennart, Dueck, Ann, and Johannesson, Lars-Erik. Material model for shear of the buffer - evaluation of laboratory test results. Sweden: N. p., 2010. Web.
Boergesson, Lennart, Dueck, Ann, & Johannesson, Lars-Erik. Material model for shear of the buffer - evaluation of laboratory test results. Sweden.
Boergesson, Lennart, Dueck, Ann, and Johannesson, Lars-Erik. 2010. "Material model for shear of the buffer - evaluation of laboratory test results." Sweden.
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title = {Material model for shear of the buffer - evaluation of laboratory test results}
author = {Boergesson, Lennart, Dueck, Ann, and Johannesson, Lars-Erik}
abstractNote = {The report describes the material model of bentonite used for analysing a rock shear through a deposition hole. The old model used in SR-Can has been considerably changed. The new reference model that has been developed for SR-Site is described and motivated. The relevant properties of the buffer that affect the response to a rock shear are (in addition to the bentonite type) the density (which yields a swelling pressure), the shear strength, the stiffness before the maximum shear stress is reached and the shear rate, which also affects the shear strength. Since the shear caused by an earthquake is very fast and the hydraulic conductivity of the bentonite is very low there is no possibility for the pore water in the water saturated bentonite to be redistributed. Since the compressibility of water and particles are negligible, the bentonite can be modelled as a solid material that cannot change volume but only exhibit shear deformations. A proper and simple model that behaves accordingly is a model with von Mises' stress modelled as a function of the strain (stress-strain model). The model is elastic-plastic with an E-modulus that determines the behaviour until the material starts yielding whereupon the plastic strain is modelled as a function of von Mises' stress and added to the elastic strain. Included in the model is also a strain rate dependency of the stress-strain relation, which ranges between the strain rates 10-6 1/s < v < 103 1/s. The reference material model is derived from a large number of laboratory tests made on different bentonites at different strain rates, densities and with different techniques. Since it cannot be excluded that the exchangeable cat-ions in the Na-bentonite MX-80 is exchanged to calcium-ions the Ca-bentonite Deponit CaN is proposed to be used as reference material. The overall conclusion is that a relevant and probably also slightly conservative material model of Ca-converted MX-80 is derived, presented and well motivated}
place = {Sweden}
year = {2010}
month = {Dec}
}