Geometrical versus rheological transient creep closure in a salt cavern

Universal scaling in transient creep.

We present experimental evidence that pressure solution creep does not establish a steady-state interface microstructure as previously thought. Conversely, pressure solution controlled strain and the characteristic length scale of interface microstructures grow as the cubic root of time. Transient creep with the same scaling is known in metallurgy (Andrade creep). The apparent universal scaling...

Rheological analysis of creep in hydrogenated amorphous carbon films

We present a nanoindentation study to detect time-dependent deformations in non-polymeric hydrogenated amorphous carbon films. When the bonded hydrogen content increases from 18 to 36 at.%, as measured by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, we find that the film becomes less graphitic and softer. Moreover, its hardness shows a larger sensitivity to strain rate and the film with the higher ...

Presenting an experimental creep model for rock salt

During the recent decades, the design and construction of underground spaces into rock salt have been particularly regarded for storing petroleum fluids, natural gas, and compressed air energy, and also for disposing nuclear and chemical wastes. The rock salt hosting such spaces will be subjected to various types of monotonic/cyclic, short-term/long-term stresses during the construction and/or ...

Local transient rheological behavior of concentrated suspensions

Creep closure of channels in deforming subglacial till

We examine theoretically the creep closure of subglacial tunnels cut into basal till, generalizing Nye's classical analysis of tunnel closure in glacier ice to rheologies in which the creep rate depends on effective pressure (the difference between total pressure and pore-water pressure). The solutions depend critically on a dimensionless permeability parameter. For the appealingly simple Boult...