The acoustic properties of porous materials containing dead-end (DE) pores have been proposed by Dupont et al. [J. Appl. Phys. 110, 094903 (2011)]. In the theoretical description, two physical parameters were defined (the dead-end porosity and the average length of the dead-end pores). With the knowledge of the open porosity (measured with non-acoustic methods), and the measurement of kinematic...

The effect of degree of compression on the evolution of tablet microstructure and bond probability during compression of granular solids has been studied. Microcrystalline cellulose pellets of low (about 11%) and of high (about 32%) porosity were used. Tablets were compacted at 50, 100 and 150 MPa applied pressures and the degree of compression and the tensile strength of the tablets determined...

Transport properties of cyclohexane confined to a silica material with an ordered, bimodal pore structure have been studied by means of pulsed field gradient nuclear magnetic resonance. A particular organization of the well-defined pore structure, composed of a collection of spatially ordered, spherical mesopores interconnected via narrow worm-like pores, allowed for a quantitative analysis of ...

An analysis of stress distributions within circumferential clasp arms with various tapers, was undertaken in an effort to (1) determine the area of maximum stress concentration in both tapered and non-tapered clasps, and (2) to compare this point of maximum stress concentration with the area of frequent clasp breakage. The non-tapered clasp showed better distribution of stresses than the tapere...

Double-porosity materials were introduced as models for oil and gas reservoirs having both storage and transport porosities, and were at first usually treated as static mechanical systems in order to study the flow patterns of fluids during reservoir pump down. Because fluid withdrawal normally increases the effective stress acting on the reservoir, it also turns out to be important to study th...

Development of the Hugoton field model has required automated processing of large data volumes at several steps, including prediction of lithofacies from geophysical well logs in numerous wells based on a neural network trained on log-facies associations observed in cored wells, generation of geologic controlling variables (depositional environment indicator and relative position in cycle) from...

Double-porosity materials were introduced as models for oil and gas reservoirs having both storage and transport porosities, and were at first usually treated as static mechanical systems in order to study the flow patterns of fluids during reservoir pump-down. Because fluid withdrawal normally increases the effective stress acting on the reservoir, it also turns out to be important to study th...

The hot-wire method is applied in this paper to probe the thermal conductivity (TC) of Cu and Ni nanoparticle packed beds (NPBs). A different decrease tendency of TC versus porosity than that currently known is discovered. The relationship between the porosity and nanostructure is investigated to explain this unusual phenomenon. It is found that the porosity dominates the TC of the NPB in large...

The effective diffusion coefficient D, for porous media composed of identical obstacles of radius A in which the diffusing particles have finite radius PR (fl>O) is determined by an efficient Brownian motion simulation technique. This is accomplished by first computing D, for diffusion of “point” Brownian particles in a certain system of interpenetrable spherical obstacles and then employing an...