Orientador: José Gilberto Dalfré Filho / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Civil, Arquitetura e Urbanismo / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-23T10:42:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Aquino_GenivaldoAlcantarade_M.pdf: 13175596 bytes, checksum: 7fcf5fba9c6608250faca3ec3bc0b3a1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: A presença de ar aprisionado no interior da tubulação de água pode levar a operação irregular ou, até mesmo, danos aos sistemas de abastecimento de água e seus componentes. A presença de ar aprisionado pode ocorrer durante o funcionamento regular, ou quando os sistemas de bombeamento estão em operação. A formação de bolsões de ar pode produzir o fenômeno do golpe de aríete, instabilidade e perda de pressão nas redes de abastecimento de água. A fim de evitar a sua formação, todo o ar preso deve ser removido, seja através de remoção mecânica por válvulas de ar ou remoção hidráulica (deslocamento do ar com o escoamento). No Brasil, as indústrias de válvulas de ar, muitas vezes, não possuem caracterização adequada destas válvulas, ou seja, as características das válvulas (geométrica, mecânica, hidráulica e dinâmica) devem ser determinadas. Este trabalho teve como objetivo desenvolver uma bancada de testes para ensaios de válvulas ventosas e testar estas válvulas em ensaios dinâmicos, caracterizando-as. A bancada experimental mostrou-se eficiente para os ensaios de válvulas ventosas. Os resultados dos ensaios dinâmicos das válvulas podem contribuir para que um sistema hidráulico passe a operar de uma maneira segura, diminuindo os riscos associados aos eventuais fenômenos transitórios, além de servir como referência para futuros projetos de sistemas de abastecimento. Foi confirmado que, além das curvas características em condição estática, as curvas características em condição dinâmica também devem ser analisadas, pois apresentam características de funcionamento distinto / Abstract: The presence of trapped air inside the water pipelines can lead to irregular operation or even damage the water supply systems and their components. The presence of trapped air can occur during regular operation, or while pumping systems are in operation. The formation of air pockets can produce the phenomenon of water hammer, instability and loss of pressure in water supply systems. In order to prevent its formation, all the trapped air must be removed, either by mechanical removal through air valves or hydraulic removal (by displacement of the air flow). In Brazil, industries of air valves, many times, do not possess proper characterizations of the air valves. To achieve this, all the characteristics of the valve (geometric, mechanic, hydraulic and dynamic) should be determined. This study developed a test bench for testing the air valves, characterizing them. The bench was efficient for testing and the results of the dynamic tests can contribute to operate a hydraulic system in a safe manner, reducing the risks associated with possible transient phenomena, besides serving as a reference for future projects of water supply systems. It was confirmed that, in addition to the characteristic curves in static condition, the characteristic curves in dynamic condition must also be considered, since they show different operating characteristics / Mestrado / Recursos Hidricos, Energeticos e Ambientais / Mestre em Engenharia Civil

Orientador: Rosângela Barros Zanoni Lopes Moreno / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Mecânica, Instituto de Geiociências / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-20T02:19:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Araujo_MarcoAurelioRachid_M.pdf: 5461103 bytes, checksum: e41104d89a3da94eebab2927738e94b4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Efeito de maré é o nome dado a um fenômeno observado em dados de pressão registrados em acumulações de fluido, incluindo reservatórios de petróleo, e que tem origem na variação do potencial gravitacional a que as massas estão submetidas. As primeiras citações do efeito de maré observado em reservatórios de petróleo ocorreram em meados da década de setenta e já naquela época mostraram-se a correspondência entre a amplitude do efeito de maré e as características do reservatório. A partir da teoria da poroelasticidade de Maurice Biot, desenvolveram-se métodos utilizando o efeito de maré para cálculo de parâmetros de reservatório, tal como a compressibilidade. A extração seletiva do efeito de maré é etapa importante desses métodos. Ao transformar os sinais do domínio do tempo para o domínio da frequência, a transformada de Fourier apresenta-se como ótimo recurso para esse fim, já que o efeito de maré é um sinal sinusoidal de componentes com períodos bem conhecidos. A extração seletiva de sinais utilizando a transformada de Fourier também pode ser importante para auxiliar a determinação de parâmetros de reservatório a partir do gráfico diagnóstico, já que a presença do efeito de maré pode, eventualmente, impedir ou dificultar a interpretação do teste de formação. Esta dissertação descreve os modelos poro elásticos para cálculo de compressibilidade de reservatórios e mostra a aplicação do filtro com transformada de Fourier para extração do efeito de maré e de ruídos presentes em dados de testes de formação. Três exemplos de dados registrados em testes de formação reais realizados em poços localizados em campos offshore são utilizados para extração do efeito de maré e para cálculo de compressibilidade, cujos resultados são comparados com os valores calculados a partir da correlação de Hall. Os resultados mostram ser possível utilizar os modelos poroelásticos para cálculo de compressibilidade do reservatório. A aplicação das técnicas de filtro com transformada de Fourier mostrou robustez para eliminação de ruídos e extração do efeito de maré / Abstract: Tide effect is the name given to a phenomenon observed in the pressure data recorded in accumulations of fluid, including petroleum reservoirs, and that originates from the variation of the gravitational potential to which the masses are subjected. Tidal effects have been observed in petroleum reservoirs since the mid-seventies and even then the correspondence between the amplitude of the tidal effect and the characteristics of the reservoir has been cited. From the Maurice Biot poroelastic theory, methods were developed using the tidal effect to calculate reservoir parameters such as compressibility. The selective extraction of the tidal effect is an important phase of these methods. Fourier transform appears as a great resource for this purpose, since the tidal effect is a sinusoidal signal with well-known periods. The selective extraction of signals using the Fourier transform can also be important to assist in the determination of reservoir parameters, since the presence of the tidal effect may prevent or hinder the interpretation of the formation test from the diagnostic plot. This paper describes the poroelastic models to calculate reservoir compressibility and shows the Fourier transform application to extract tidal effect and noises observed in formation evaluation data. Three set of data recorded in real formation tests, performed in offshore wells, were used to extract the tidal effect and to estimate reservoirs compressibility. The results were compared to Hall correlation results. Moreover, poroelastic models results were compared with Hall correlation results. The Fourier transform technique has been successfully used to extract the tidal effect. Simulated pressure data were also used, which showed leakage complicating. The results show that it is possible to use the poroelastic models to calculate reservoir compressibility. The examples shown that Fourier transform techniques are robust to noise removal and tidal effect extraction / Mestrado / Reservatórios e Gestão / Mestre em Ciências e Engenharia de Petróleo

Cette thèse est consacrée à l'étude des équations du Darcy Brinkman Forchheimer (DBF) avec des conditions aux limites non standards. Nous montrons d'abord l'existence de différents type de solutions (faible, forte) correspondant au problème DBF stationnaire dans un domaine simplement connexe avec des conditions portants sur la composante normale du champ de vitesse et la composante tangentielle du tourbillon. Ensuite, nous considérons le système Brinkman Forchheimer (BF) avec des conditions sur la pression dans un domaine non simplement connexe. Nous prouvons que ce problème est bien posé ainsi que l'existence de la solution forte. Nous établissons la régularité de la solution dans les espaces L^p pour p >= 2.L'étude et l'approximation du problème DBF non stationnaire est basée sur une approche pseudo-compressibilité. Une estimation d'erreur d'ordre deux est établie dans le cas o\`u les conditions aux limites sont de types Dirichlet ou Navier.Enfin, une méthode d'éléments finis Galerkin Discontinue est proposée et la convergence établie concernant le problème DBF linéarisé et le système DBF non linéaire avec des conditions aux limites non standard. / This thesis is devoted to Darcy Brinkman Forchheimer (DBF) equations with a non standard boundary conditions. We prove first the existence of different type of solutions (weak, strong) of the stationary DBF problem in a simply connected domain with boundary conditions on the normal component of the velocity field and the tangential component of the vorticity. Next, we consider Brinkman Forchheimer (BF) system with boundary conditions on the pressure in a non simply connected domain. We prove the well-posedness and the existence of a strong solution of this problem. We establish the regularity of the solution in the L^p spaces, for p >= 2.The approximation of the non stationary DBF problem is based on the pseudo-compressibility approach. The second order's error estimate is established in the case where the boundary conditions are of type Dirichlet or Navier. Finally, the finite elements Galerkin Discontinuous method is proposed and the convergence is settled concerning the linearized DBF problem and the non linear DBF system with a non standard boundary conditions.

Today, microbubbles are one of the most commonly used ultrasound contrast agents, since their high compressibility results in a strongly scattered signal. Despite this advantage, microbubbles experience limitations by the decreased stability and large diameter. The cellulose nanofiber (CNF) stabilized perfluoropentane (PFC5) droplets have the possibility of eliminating these drawbacks. In order to examine the droplet behavior and scattering ability when exposed to ultrasound, the acoustic response of the droplets is studied and compared with that of microbubbles (MBs). Therefore, this thesis aims to design an experimental set-up and a processing method to determine the phase velocity, bulk modulus and compressibility of the CNF-coated PFC5 droplets. The experimental study of the acoustic characterization uses pulse-echo spectroscopy with an aluminum reflector and seven flat transducers covering the frequency range 0.7 to 14.1 MHz. By using fast Fourier transform, while accounting for the 2πn ambiguity, the phase velocity profiles are obtained. The dispersions within this frequency spectrum are 1391-1487 m/s and 1387-1488 m/s for the concentrations 10 ∙ 106 and 50 ∙ 106 droplets/ml, respectively. These profiles display an increasing phase velocity with frequency and a slight increase in dispersion with concentration. These results agree with theory and studies examining the phase velocity of MBs. The bulk modulus presents values between 3-4 GPa, while the compressibility is 2.7 − 3.2 ∙ 10-10 𝑃𝑎-1 within the frequency range studied. Compared to water and certain MBs, both possessing a lower bulk modulus, the droplets are less compressible. To conclude, the droplets have similar phase velocity profiles with the same dependencies on frequency and concentration as MBs, resulting in similar behavior of these droplets when exposed to ultrasound. Hence, affecting the wave similarly to MBs in terms of spreading. The droplet are, however, not as compressible. This most likely affects their oscillation and they, hence, might not have equally beneficial scattering ability. This could reduce their utilization as contrast agents. Some of the potential error sources present during the laboratory work and the development of the post-processing code were not achieving perfect optimization of the transducer alignment, vaporization of the droplets resulting in reduced concentration, possible diffraction, not optimal processing of data and inadequate correction for 2πn ambiguity.

Out-of-autoclave manufacturing processes for composite materials are increasing in importance for aerospace and automotive industries. Vacuum Infusion processes are leading the push to move out of the autoclave. An understanding of the various process parameters associated with resin infusion is necessary to produce quality product. Variance in compaction, resin, and vacuum pressures are studied, concentrating on developing a compaction pressure profile as it relates to fiber volume fraction. The purpose of this research is twofold: (1) to show and quantify the existence of a resin pressure gradient in compression testing using rigid tooling, and (2) to use measured test data to validate and improve resin flow simulation models. One-dimensional compression tests revealed a pressure gradient across the diameter of the compression tool. The pressure gradient follows trends consistent with Darcy's Law. Compression tests revealed fabric hysteresis during compaction as shown in previous studies. Fiber compaction pressure was found to not be directly equal to compressive forces of the Instron when resin is present in the system. The relationship between Instron, resin and compaction pressures is defined. The compression study was used to validate previously developed flow simulation models. Resin pressures are critical to developing an accurate two-dimensional radial flow simulation for low permeability fabrics. It is feasible to determine final fiber volume fraction at a given compaction pressure.

The Fluidized Catalytic Cracking (FCC) is known for its ability to convert refinery wastes into useful fuels such as gasoline, diesel and some lighter products such as ethylene and propylene, which are major building blocks for the polyethylene and polypropylene production. It is the most important unit of the refinery. However, changes in quality, nature of crude oil blends feedstock, environmental changes and the desire to obtain higher profitability, lead to many alternative operating conditions of the FCC riser. There are two major reactors in the FCC unit: the riser and the regenerator. The production objective of the riser is the maximisation of gasoline and diesel, but it can also be used to maximise products like propylene, butylene etc. For the regenerator, it is for regeneration of spent or deactivated catalyst. To realise these objectives, mathematical models of the riser, disengage-stripping section, cyclones and regenerator were adopted from the literature and modified, and then used on the gPROMS model builder platform to make a virtual form of the FCC unit. A new parameter estimation technique was developed in this research and used to estimate new kinetic parameters for a new six lumps kinetic model based on an industrial unit. Research outputs have resulted in the following major products’ yields: gasoline (plant; 47.31 wt% and simulation; 48.63 wt%) and diesel (plant; 18.57 wt% and simulation; 18.42 wt%) and this readily validates the new estimation methodology as well as the kinetic parameters estimated. The same methodology was used to estimate kinetic parameters for a new kinetic reaction scheme that considered propylene as a single lump. The yield of propylene was found to be 4.59 wt%, which is consistent with published data. For the first time, a Z-factor correlation analysis was used in the riser simulation to improve the hydrodynamics. It was found that different Z factor correlations predicted different riser operating pressures (90 – 279 kPa) and temperatures as well as the riser products. The Z factor correlation of Heidaryan et al. (2010a) was found to represent the condition of the riser, and depending on the catalyst-to-oil ratio, this ranges from 1.06 at the inlet of the riser to 0.92 at the exit. Optimisation was carried out to maximise gasoline, propylene in the riser and minimise CO2 in the regenerator. An increase of 4.51% gasoline, 8.93 wt.% increase in propylene as a single lump and 5.24 % reduction of carbon dioxide emission were achieved. Finally, varying the riser diameter was found to have very little effect on the yields of the riser products.

Two different soils may be generated from open-pit mining: lumpy soils with a granular structure and clay mixtures, depending on the length of the conveyor belt and the strength of the original soils. Lumpy soils may be created for a high strength of the excavated soils. They are dumped as landfills without any compaction, which permits the water and air flows via the inter-lump voids. As a result, a new structure consisting of the lumps and reconstituted soil within the inter-lump voids can be created. However, if the original soil has a low strength or a long transportation takes place, the material may disintegrate into small lumps and thoroughly mix soils from different layers. Landfills consisting of clay mixtures arise in this way. The stability and deformation of landfills are crucial for design of occupied area and landfill slopes. For this reason, three different landfill materials will be investigated in this thesis: (1) the lumpy granular soil from fresh landfills, (2) the lumpy composite soil corresponding to old landfills and (3) clay mixtures. Firstly, an artificial lumpy soil was investigated. It is a transition form between the reconstituted and natural lumpy soils. Compression, permeability and strength of lumpy materials have been evaluated based on oedometer and triaxial tests. The shear strength of the normally consolidated lumpy specimens lies approximately on the Critical State Line of the reconstituted soil. The reconstituted soil, which exists in the inter-lump voids, plays a crucial role in the behaviour of artificial lumpy materials. Similarly to the artificial lumpy soil, inter-lump voids of the natural lumpy soil are mainly closed above a relatively small stress level, which is induced by the rearrangement of the lumps. However, its limit stress state is located above the Critical State Line of the reconstituted soil, which may be caused by the diagenetic soil structure in the natural lumps. The structure transition of the lumpy granular material can be divided into three possible stages related to the stress level. Firstly, the compressibility of a fresh lumpy is relativity high due to the closure of the inter-lump voids within a low stress range. In this stage, the hydraulic conductivity is mainly controlled by the inter-lump skeleton due to the existence of macro drainage paths, while the shear strength is controlled by the reconstituted soil around the lumps. Afterwards, its compressibility decreases with the consolidation stress and the soil behaves similarly to an overconsolidated soil. The clayfill appears to be uniform visually in this stage, but its structure is still highly heterogeneous and the hydraulic conductivity is higher than that of the reconstituted soil with the same overall specific volume. Finally, the loading reaches the preconsolidation stress of the lumps, and the whole soil volume becomes normally consolidated. Isotropically consolidated drained triaxial shear tests were performed on artificially prepared specimens with parallel and series structures. The laboratory tests show that the specimens with the series structure have the same failure mode as the constituent with the lower strength; the specimens with the parallel structure have a failure plane which crosses both constituents. As a result, the shear strength of the series specimens is only slightly higher than that of the constituent with the lower strength and the strength of the parallel specimens lies between those of the constituents. Afterwards, the behaviour of an artificial lumpy material with randomly distributed inclusions is investigated using the Finite Element Method. The computation results show that the stress ratio, defined as the ratio of the volume-average stress between the lumps and the reconstituted soil within the inter-lump voids, is significantly affected by both the volume fraction and the preconsolidation pressure of the lumps under an isotropic compression path, while the volume fraction of the lumps plays a minor role under a triaxial compression path. Based on the simulation results and analysis of the two basic configurations, a homogenization law was proposed utilizing the secant stiffnesses. The compression behavior of the lumpy composite soil was analyzed within the homogenization framework. Firstly, the volume of the composite soil was divided into four individual components. The inter-lump porosity was introduced to account for the evolution of the volume fractions of the constituents, and it was formulated as a function of the overall porosity and those of its constituents. A homogenization law was then proposed based on the analysis of the lumpy structure together with a numerical method, which gives a relationship for tangent stiffnesses of the lumpy soil and its constituents. Finally, a simple compression model was proposed for the composite lumpy material, which incorporates both the influence of the soil structure and the volume fraction change of the reconstituted soil. Furthermore, a general framework for the consolidation behaviour of the lumpy composite soil was proposed based on the double porosity concept and the homogenization theory. To describe the behaviour of lumps with low stress level, a new failure line was proposed with help of the equivalent Hvorslev pressure and critical state concept. The structure effect was incorporated into the nonlinear Hvorslev surface within sensitivity framework and the generalized Cam clay model proposed by McDowell and Hau (2003) was adopted on the wet side of the critical state. A secant stiffness, defined as the ratio between the deviatoric stress and deviatoric strain, was used in the homogenization law. Finally, a simple model for the natural lumpy soil was proposed within the homogenization framework. The physical properties, compression behaviour and remolded undrained shear strength of clay mixtures were investigated by reproducing the soils artificially in the lab. Afterwards, the models for the compression and undrained shear strength of clay mixtures were proposed. The model for the strength of the clay mixture originated from simplifying the structure of a clay mixture, in which the elements of the constituents are randomly distributed in a representative elementary volume. By defining a water content ratio (the ratio of water contents between the constituents), the undrained shear strength of each constituent was estimated separately and then combined together with corresponding volume fractions. A homogenization law was proposed afterwards based on the analysis of the randomly arranged structure. A simple compression model considering $N$ constituents was proposed within the homogenization framework, which was evaluated by a mixture with two constituents. / In einem Tagebau können die feinkörnigen Böden in unterschiedlichen Zustandsformen entstehen. Dies sind zum einen klumpige Böden mit einer granular ähnlichen Struktur (Pseudokornstruktur) und einer hohen Konsistenzzahl und zum anderen Mischungen aus mehreren Tonen oder Schluffen mit niedriger Konsistenzzahl. Der Zustand wird dabei massgebend von dem Transport (z.B. Länge des Förderbandes) und dem Ausgangszustand (z.B. der Anfangsscherfestigkeit) beeinflusst. Klumpige Böden entstehen bei der Abbaggerung des natürlichen Materials auf der Abbauseite, welches eine hohe Festigkeit besitzt. Alle Böden werden normalerweise ohne Verdichtung verkippt, so entstehen bei der Verkippung von klumpigen Böden grosse Makro-Porenräume zwischen den Klumpen, welche sehr luft- bzw. wasserdurchlässig sind. Nach einiger Zeit entsteht eine neue Struktur aus den Klumpen und dem Material des sich von aussen auflösenden Klumpens, welches das Füllmaterial bildet. Wenn die Festigkeit des Ausgangsmaterials niedrig ist oder lange Transportwege stattfinden, zerfallen die Klumpen. Zudem werden die Böden von verschiedenen Schichten der Abbauseite unter einander gemischt, wodurch die Tongemische entstehen. Sowohl für die Dimensionierung und Berechnung der aus den Verkippungen entstehenden Tagebaurandböschungen sowie für eine spätere Nutzung des ehemaligen Tagebaugebietes ist die Kenntnisüber das Deformations- und Verformungsverhalten von Kippenböden notwendig. Daher wurden in dieser Arbeit Tagebauböden und ihr zeitlich veränderliches Verhalten untersucht. Dabei werden diese, bezugnehmend auf den Anfangszustand, in drei typische Materialien unterschieden: (1) der frisch verkippte klumpige Boden, (2) eine Mischung aus Klumpen und Füllmaterial, welche höhere Liegezeiten repräsentiert und (3) Mischungen von feinkörnigen Ausgangsböden. Zunächst wurden künstlich hergestellte klumpige Böden untersucht. Sie bilden eine Übergangsform zwischen aufbereiteten und natürlichen klumpigen Böden. Das Kompressions- und Scherverhalten sowie die Durchlässigkeit wurden an Ödometer und Triaxialversuchen bestimmt. Das Füllmaterial, welches die Makroporen zwischen den Klumpen füllt, spielt eine entscheidende Rolle für das Materialverhalten. Ähnlich wie bei den künstlich hergestellten klumpigen Böden schliessen sich auch bei den Böden im Tagebau die Makroporenschen bei niedrigen Spannungen. Dabei werden die Klumpen umgelagert. Allerdings befindet sich die Grenze des Spannungszustandes oberhalb der Critical State Line des Füllmaterials, was möglicherweise mit den unter Diagenese entstandenen Bodenstrukturen erklärt werden kann. Die Strukturänderung der klumpigen Böden kann aufgrund des Spannungsniveaus in drei mögliche Stufen unterteilt werden. Am Anfang ist die Kompressibilität der frischen verkippten Klumpen hoch, da sich die Makroporen bereits bei geringen Spannungen schliessen. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt sind auch die Durchlässigkeiten in erster Linie von den grossen Porenräumen der Makroporen, welche als Entwässerungspfade dienen, beeinflusst. Die Scherfestigkeit hingegen, wird durch die aufgeweichten Böden an den Oberflächen der Klumpen massgebend beeinflusst. Bei höheren Konsolidationspannungen sinkt die Kompressibilität und der Boden verhält sich wie einüberkonsolidierter Boden. Obwohl die Struktur aufgrund der veränderten Klumpenoberflächen zu diesem Zeitpunkt homogener wirkt, ist die Struktur noch heterogen und die Durchlässigkeit ist höher als bei einem aufbereiteten Boden mit gleichem spezifischem Volumen (Porenzahl). Letztendlich erreicht der aktuelle Spannungszustand den derüberkonsolidierten Klumpen und der gesamte Boden verhält sich wie ein normal konsolidierter Boden. Des Weiteren wurden isotrop konsolidierte drainierte Triaxialversuche an künstlich aus zwei Ausgangsmaterialien hergestellten Proben mit parallelen und seriellen Strukturen durchgeführt. Die Laborversuche zeigten, dass die Proben mit seriellem Aufbau dieselben Gleitflächen haben, wie der Ausgangsboden mit der niedrigeren Scherfestigkeit. Die Gleitfläche der Proben mit parallelen Strukturen verlief durch beide Materialien. Es wurde festgestellt, dass die Scherfestigkeit der seriell aufgebauten Proben geringfügig höher, als die des Bodens mit der niedrigeren Scherfestigkeit ist. Die Scherfestigkeit der parallel aufgebauten Proben liegt zwischen den beiden Ausgangsmaterialien. Danach wurde das Verhalten der künstlich erzeugten klumpigen Böden mit zufällig verteiltem Füllmaterial mit Hilfe der Finiten Elemente Methode verglichen. Die Simulationen zeigten, dass unter einer isotropen Kompressionsbelastung das Spannungsverhältnis, definiert aus dem Verhältnis der Spannung des Volumendurchschnitts zwischen den Klumpen und dem Füllmaterial, deutlich durch die Volumenanteile und die Vorkonsoliderungsspannung der Klumpen beeinflusst wird. Während das Volumenverhältnis eine untergeordnete Rolle in den in Triaxialzellen unter Scherung belasteten Proben spielt. Aus den Simulationsergebnissen und den Laborversuchen der beiden Grundkonfigurationen wurde ein Homogenisierungsgesetz abgeleitet, welches die Sekandensteifigkeiten verwendet. Das Kompressionsverhalten der Mischungen aus Klumpen und Füllmaterial wurde mit Blick auf die Homogenisierung analysiert. Zunächst kann das Volumen der Mischungen in 4 individuelle Komponentenanteile zerlegt werden. Die Makroporosität zwischen den Klumpen wurde zur Entwicklung der Volumenanteile des Füllmaterials eingeführt. Sie wurde als eine Funktion der totalen Porosität und der Materialien formuliert. Auf Grundlage einer theoretischen Analyse an klumpigen Böden und unter Zuhilfenahme einer numerischen Methode wird ein Gesetz zur Homogenisierung vorgeschlagen. Dieses enthält eine Beziehung zwischen der Tagentensteifigkeit der Klumpen und seinem Füllmaterial. Abschliessend wird ein einfaches Kompressionsmodel für die Mischung aus Klumpen und Füllmaterial vorgeschlagen, welches den Einfluss der Bodenstruktur und der Änderung des Volumenanteils des Füllmaterials berücksichtigt. Darüber hinaus wurde eine allgemeine Formulierung für das Konsolidationsverhalten der klumpigen Böden mit Füllmaterial vorgeschlagen, welche sich auf das Konzept der doppelten Porosität (Klumpen und Füllmaterial) und eine Homogenisierungstheoerie bezieht. Um das Verhalten der Klumpen bei niedrigen Spannungen zu beschreiben, wird eine neue Grenzbedingung unter Zuhilfenahme der äquivalenten Hvorslev-Spannung und des Criticial State Konzeptes vorgeschlagen. Der Struktureffekt für sensitive Böden wurde in die nichtlineare Hvorslev-Oberfläche eingebaut. Das allgemein gültige Cam-Clay-Model von McDowell und Hau (2003) wurde um die nasse Seite des Critical State Konzeptes erweitert. Eine Sekandensteifigkeit, definiert aus dem Verhältnis zwischen der Deviatorspannung und der Deviatordehnung, wurde für das Homogenisieurungsgesetz ebenfalls verwendet. Abschliessend wird ein Modell für natürliche klumpige Böden vorgestellt, welches auch eine Homogenisierung beinhaltet. Die physikalischen Eigenschaften, das Kompressionsverhalten und die undrainierten Scherfestigkeiten von aufbereiten Tongemischen wurden im Labor unter Herstellung künstlicher Bödengemische untersucht. Anschliessend wurde ein Kompressions- und Schermodell für aufbereitete Tongemische vorgeschlagen. Das Modell der Scherfestigkeit der Tongemische entstand aus der Vereinfachung der Tongemischstruktur, in welcher die Elemente der Ausgangsmaterialien zufällig in dem Einheitsvolumen verteilt sind. Werden Wassergehaltsverhältnisse (das Verhältnis der Wassergehalte der Ausgangsmaterialien) definiert, kann die undrainierte Scherfestigkeit für alle Bestandteile separat geschätzt werden und dannüber die Volumenanteile bestimmt werden. Ein Homogenisierungsgesetz wurde auf Grundlage der theoretischen Analyse von zufällig angeordneten Strukturen entwickelt. Ein einfaches Kompressionsmodell, welches N-Ausgangsmaterielien bzw. Tone und eine Homogenisierung enthält, wird vorgeschlagen, und an einer Mischung aus 2 Bestandteilen im Labor validiert.

Most of the water fed into a paper machine is removedmechanically in the forming and press sections. One of thefactor which has an important influence on mechanicaldewatering, i.e. in both forming and pressing, is thestress-strain behaviour of the fibre network. The focus of this thesis is on the development of improvedmathematical descriptions of the stress-strain behaviourexhibited by fibre networks in the forming and press sections.The first part of the thesis presents a physically based modelof the forming and densification of fibre mats in twin-wireformers. The model can calculate the ecect of the applicationof a varied load through the forming section. It was developedfrom mass and momentum balances of the fibre and liquid phases,the fibre mat stress-porosity relation and an expression forthe permeability as a function of the porosity. The fibre-matstress-porosity relation used is rate-independent and presentshysteresis. Simulations have been conducted to study theeffects of roll pressure, blade pulses, wire tension andbeating. The effect of sequential blade pressure pulses afterthe forming roll on the dewatering and the concentrationgradients could be characterised. The simulations alsoexhibited rewetting by expansion when the fibre mats left theforming roll. Increasing wire tension resulted in increaseddewatering, but the rate of increase diminished rapidly withincreasing tension. The simulation results also indicated thatbeating has a large influence on dewatering. The second part of the thesis presents two models of therate-dependent stress-strain behaviour of the fibre networkthat is observed in wet pressing. The first model was based onthe approach pioneered by Perzyna (1966) for strain-ratedependent plasticity and was quite satisfactory for calculatingthe stress-strain behaviour of the fibre network in singlepress nips. It was successfully applied for studyingdensification and dewatering in both normal wet pressing andhigh temperature wet pressing. However, the first model onlyincludes rate dependence in the compression phase of thecompressionexpansion cycle; the expansion phase is treated asbeing rate independent The second model of the stress-strain behaviour of the fibrenetwork treats both compression and expansion as being ratedependent, according to experimental observations. It is basedon the idea that the wet fibre web may be conceived as alayered network of restricted swelling gels. A swollen fibre isa restricted gel, the inner swelling pressure in a swollenfibre wall being balanced by the stresses in the fibre wallstructure. The observed rate dependence of wet webs in bothcompression and expansion phases was attributed to the flow ofwater out of and into the fibre walls. The second model gavepredictions that are in good agreement with results fromuniaxial experiments using pressure pulses of arbitrary shapefor both a single pulse and a sequence of pulses. It maytherefore be used as a general model for the rheologicalbehaviour of the wet fibre network in wet pressing, providedthe model parameters are estimated from experimental data withsmall experimental error. KEYWORDS:Paper, modelling, dewatering, forming, wetpressing, fibre network stress, rheology, hysteresis,intra-fibre water, compressibility, structural stress,stress-strain, restricted gels, swelling. / <p>QC 20161026</p>

Os ecossistemas naturais e agropecuários dependem fundamentalmente do solo como recurso básico para sua funcionalidade. Neste contexto, a qualidade do solo tem tido uma crescente importância global. Os objetivos deste estudo consistiram em propor modificações metodológicas e/ou instrumentais visando determinações mais acuradas dos indicadores da qualidade física do solo mediante o desenvolvimento de (i) um sistema eletro-mecânico que permite a obtenção de amostras indeformadas de solos sem aplicação de golpes; (ii) um penetrômetro estático automatizado, de baixo custo e portátil, para medidas de resistência à penetração (RP) e resistência tênsil (RT) sob regime de velocidade constante de 1,55 mm s-1; (iii) um consolidômetro, de baixo custo e de maior portabilidade, para determinações da curva de compressão do solo, da RP e da RT utilizando propulsão pneumática e (iv) melhorias instrumentais em um permeâmetro de carga constante de ar pela redução de oscilações durante a medição do gradiente de pressão bem como a otimização da seleção de diferentes níveis de vazão mássica de ar. Os resultados obtidos mostraram que (i) o sistema eletromecânico garantiu a preservação da estrutura do solo em amostras coletadas comparado com a amostragem por golpes, principalmente no solo mais argiloso; (ii) a RP e a RT puderam ser determinadas com elevada acurácia à velocidade constante de 1,55 mm s-1; (iii) a curva de compressão do solo foi sensível às diferenças entre os tratamentos (linha e entrelinha da cultura) e a utilização de propulsão pneumática não influenciou os resultados da RP e da RT e (iv) a instrumentação utilizada no permeâmetro de carga constante de ar permitiu realizar determinações da permeabilidade do solo ao ar tanto em campo quanto em laboratório com rapidez e elevada acurácia. / Natural and agricultural ecosystems rely fundamentally on soil as a basic resource for their functionality. In this context, soil quality has had a growing global importance. The objectives of this study were based on proposing methodological and/or instrumental modifications aiming to obtain more accurate determinations of soil physical quality indicators by developing: (i) an electro-mechanical system that allows the extraction of undisturbed soil samples without mechanical impact (no-hammering); (ii) a low cost and portable static automatic penetrometer, for measuring soil penetration resistance (PR) and tensile strength (TS) at a constant speed of 1.55 mm s-1; (iii) a low cost and portable consolidometer, for determination of soil compression curve, PR and TS using pneumatic propulsion and (iv) instrumental improvements to a constant head air permeameter by reducing the oscillation during measuring the pressure head gradient and the optimization of the selection of different levels of air mass flow. The results showed that (i) the electro-mechanical system ensured the preservation of soil structure in undisturbed samples in comparison to samples extracted by hammering procedures, especially in clayey soil; (ii) PR and TS could be determined with high accuracy at the constant speed of 1.55 mm s-1; (iii) the soil compression curve was sensitive to differences between treatments (crop row and inter-row) and the use of pneumatic propulsion did not influence the results of PR and TS, and (iv) the instrumentation used in the constant head air permeameter allowed determination of soil air permeability either on the field or in the laboratory with high speed and accuracy.

Neste trabalho são apresentados resultados de ensaios triaxiais convencionais, de compressão confinada e triaxiais com controle de tensão, realizados em amostras saturadas e com controle de sucção, em corpos de prova indeformados coletados ao longo de um perfil típico de solo da cidade de São Carlos - SP. A partir dos dados obtidos, faz-se um estudo do comportamento de deformação e resistência do solo, em condições não saturadas, ao longo de todo perfil amostrado. Para o solo residual de arenito realiza-se também um estudo das suas principais características de elastoplasticidade, para a condição saturada e para o caso dos ensaios realizados com controle de sucção. Mostra-se que as superfícies de plastificação obtidas para o solo podem ser ajustadas de modo razoável pela superfície de escoamento do Cam-Clay modificado, utilizada nos modelos de Alonso et al. (1990) e Balmaceda et al. (1992). Para esta superfície, o uso de uma lei de fluxo associada conduziu a resultados satisfatórios. Um modelo constitutivo é proposto para representação do comportamento do solo em condições não saturadas. Uma nova superfície de plastificação e uma nova lei de fluxo (não associada) são propostas para o solo, conseguindo-se uma melhor previsão dos pontos de escoamento situados à esquerda da projeção da linha de estados críticos e diminuindo-se os valores dos desvios angulares dos vetores de incrementos de deformação plástica. No modelo constitutivo proposto neste trabalho, a superfície de escoamento LC do solo é obtida levando-se em consideração não somente os valores da pressão de pré-adensamento, mas também os valores de &#947(s). Os modelos constitutivos proposto e de Balmaceda et al. (1992) são utilizados na simulação dos ensaios de laboratório, obtendo-se bons resultados. Com o uso dos parâmetros adotados para a simulação dos ensaios de laboratório são realizadas previsões do comportamento de estruturas de fundação em campo, obtendo-se resultados satisfatórios. / This thesis deals with the application of elasto-plastic concepts to a typical non saturated soil from São Carlos - SP. The soil profile analysed is composed at is upper part of a sandy soil of coluvium origin and of a residual soil from sandstone at depths larger than 8 m. The water level is at a depth of about 10 m. The experimental work included compression triaxial tests following different stress paths and confined compression tests performed both on saturated and on unsaturated specimens. In the case of the residual soil of sandstone, its main elastoplastic characteristics are studied. It is shown that yield points can be fairly fitted by the yield surface proposed by of Alonso et al. (1990) and Balmaceda et al. (1992), which are an extension of modified Cam-Clay yield surface. In this case, an associated flow law also gave reasonable results in reproducing experimental data. In order to get a better adjustment between experimental and theoretical results, a new constitutive model is proposed using a new yield surface and a non associated flow law. It is shown that this new yield surface can better adjust experimental yield points, mainly those located at left of the critical state line (C.S.L.) and the new flow rule leaded to lower deviation of incremental plastic strain vectors. In the proposed model, the yield surface LC is obtained considering both &#947(s) and po experimental values. The proposed and Balmaceda et al. (1992) models were utilised to predict the laboratory soil behaviour, showing good results. The parameters already used to reproduce laboratory tests were also used to model foundation structures built in the soil studied and a fair agreement between experimental and predict results was obtained.