Early results from the thermal/structural in situ test series at the WIPP

Conference · Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1986

OSTI ID:5803157

Munson, D E; Torres, T M; Blankenship, D A

The Thermal/Structural Interactions (TSI) In Situ Tests are a series of large-scale, well instrumented tests that have been constructed at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in southeastern New Mexico. As a precursor to the TSI tests, a ventilation drift (Room D) was mined, drilled and instrumented. This room provided the contractor an excellent area to practice controlled construction methods and was proving ground for construction monitoring and documentation methods. All gages in this first room have been monitored since their initial installation, which has provided a small, but representative, data base. These data also were the first to be available from any TSI area for analysis. This paper discusses the construction activities in Room D and the data generated from the construction and drilling. Deformation of the room is compared briefly to numerical calculations that used a rather simple creep model as a reference. The constitutive model for salt, it appears, must be improved before it can predict the underground deformations.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA); RE/SPEC, Inc., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 5803157
• Report Number(s): SAND-85-2237C; CONF-860609-5; ON: DE86007390
• Resource Relation: Conference: 27. U.S. symposium on rock mechanics, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA, 23 Jun 1986; Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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