Granular Salt Summary: Reconsolidation Principles and Applications
The purposes of this paper are to review the vast amount of knowledge concerning crushed salt reconsolidation and its attendant hydraulic properties (i.e., its capability for fluid or gas transport) and to provide a sufficient basis to understand reconsolidation and healing rates under repository conditions. Topics covered include: deformation mechanisms and hydro-mechanical interactions during reconsolidation; the experimental data base pertaining to crushed salt reconsolidation; transport properties of consolidating granulated salt and provides quantitative substantiation of its evolution to characteristics emulating undisturbed rock salt; and extension of microscopic and laboratory observations and data to the applicable field scale.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE), Fuel Cycle Technologies (NE-5)
- Contributing Organization:
- Institut fuer Gebirgsmechanik (IfG); Gesellschaft für Anlagen-und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS); Bundesanstalt fuer Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000
- OSTI ID:
- 1164616
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-2014-16141R
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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