System and method for testing stress strain of porous rock under fluid-solid coupling effects

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12169147-B2
Application number	US-202118039993-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 11, 2021
Priority date	Nov 11, 2021
Publication date	Dec 17, 2024
Grant date	Dec 17, 2024

Abstract

Disclosed are a testing system and method under fluid-solid coupling effects. A dynamic stress field during fluid flow, deformation of a porous rock framework, real-time evolution of the stress field and deformation of a fluid-solid interface under fluid-solid coupling effects can be obtained, on the basis of a collected photo-elastic stripe image and a surface deformation image. A stress field of a solid framework and fluid in porous rock, and a strain field of the solid framework and the fluid-solid interface under fluid-solid coupling effects can be visually and quantitatively displayed by means of a display device.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A test system under a hydromechanical coupling effect, comprising:
a porous medium model, which is made of a material with stress birefringence;
a porous medium model loading device, wherein the porous medium model is placed in the porous medium model loading device, the porous medium model loading device imposes boundary constraints on the porous medium model, and performs high-pressure injection of stress birefringence fluid in pores, so as to form the hydromechanical coupling effect of fluid flow process;
a measuring device that obtains:
a photoelastic fringe image and determines a stress field of a fluid and a porous skeleton under the hydromechanical coupling effect; and
a surface deformation image of the porous medium model under the hydromechanical coupling effect and determines a strain field of the porous skeleton and/or a fluid-solid interface under the hydromechanical coupling effect.

2. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the measuring device comprises:
a photoelasticity experimental device for obtaining the photoelastic fringe image;
a digital image correlation measuring device for obtaining the surface deformation image.

3. The system according to claim 2 , wherein the photoelasticity experimental device comprises following components arranged in sequence on a same optical axis: a light source, a polarizer, a first quarter-wave plate, a second quarter-wave plate, an analyzer, and a first image acquisition device;
wherein the porous medium model and the porous medium model loading device are placed between the first quarter-wave plate and the second quarter-wave plate.

4. The system according to claim 2 , wherein a surface of the porous medium model is provided with speckles for deformation measurement;
wherein the digital image correlation method measuring device comprises: a second image acquisition device configured to obtain a displacement image of the speckles, and the displacement image is used as the surface deformation image.

5. The system according to claim 1 , further comprising: a 3D printing device, which prints and forms the porous medium model using a material with stress birefringence.

6. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the stress birefringence fluid is a high molecular polymer solution or a colloidal solution with birefringence effect.

7. A test method under a hydromechanical coupling effect, comprising:
preparing a porous medium model, which is made of a material with stress birefringence;
placing the porous medium model in a porous medium model loading device, and imposing boundary constraints on the porous medium model by the porous medium model loading device, and performing high-pressure injection of stress birefringence fluid in pores, so as to form the dynamic hydromechanical coupling effect of fluid flow process;
obtaining a photoelastic fringe image and a surface deformation image of the porous medium model under the hydromechanical coupling effect by a measuring device;
wherein the photoelastic fringe image determines a stress field of a fluid and a porous skeleton under the hydromechanical coupling effect; wherein a surface deformation image determines a strain field of the porous skeleton and/or a fluid-solid interface under the hydromechanical coupling effect.

Assignees

• Univ China Mining

Inventors

• Ju Yang
• Zheng Jiangtao
• Ren Zhangyu
• Gong Wenbo

Classifications

• G01N2203/0647

  Image analysis · CPC title

• G01N2203/0075

  Strain-stress relations or elastic constants · CPC title

• G01N2203/0048

  Hydraulic means · CPC title

• G01N15/082

  Investigating permeability by forcing a fluid through a sample · CPC title

• G01N3/12

  Pressure testing · CPC title