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- Title
The Effects of Cycle Frequency on Mechanical Behavior of Rock Salt for Energy Storage.
- Authors
Han, Yue; Ma, Hongling; Cui, Hao; Liu, Ning
- Abstract
Salt caverns are used to store different energy sources, resulting in different periodic operating frequencies. To investigate the influence of the cycle frequencies on the mechanical behavior of rock salt, uniaxial stepped cyclic loading tests with successively decreasing, successively increasing and arbitrarily changing frequency were conducted. The deformation and dissipated energy under different frequencies were compared and analyzed. The test results demonstrate that the cycle frequency slightly affects the deformation evolution and that effect only appears when the adjacent frequencies change sharply (more than 50 times). The strain induced in one frequency stage (stage deformation) caused by high frequency is greater than that at low frequency. The dissipated energy is affected significantly by frequency. The individual dissipated energy decreases nearly as a power function with the frequency, while the stage dissipated energy shows the opposite trends due to the large increase of the loading cycles. In general, a quick injection and withdrawal is more dangerous for surrounding rock. The results are helpful for the operation of salt cavern used for energy storage. Highlights: A novel test method with good accuracy and reliability—'stepped varying frequencies at the same cyclic stress' is conducted to study the effect of frequency. Deformation of rock salt is slightly affected by the changing frequency. The individual dissipated energy decreases with the increase of frequency, while the accumulated dissipated energy in a frequency stage shows the opposite. The damage and deformation of the rock surrounding a salt cavern are relatively large when the cyclic loading is fast.
- Subjects
ROCK salt; ENERGY storage; ROCK deformation; CYCLIC loads; CAVES; TEST methods
- Publication
Rock Mechanics & Rock Engineering, 2022, Vol 55, Issue 12, p7535
- ISSN
0723-2632
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00603-022-03040-1