Upgrading the Rock Mechanics Laboratory at Saint Louis University

升级圣路易斯大学岩石力学实验室

• 批准号: 9117415
• 负责人: Frederick Chester
• 金额: $ 3.61万
• 依托单位: Saint Louis University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-02-01 至 1995-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9117415&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Upgrading; Rock; Mechanics; Laboratory; Saint

This award will provide half the funds necessary to upgrade the rock mechanics laboratory at St. Louis University. The additional funding to make this possible has been committed by St. Louis University. This will be an upgrade of equipment borrowed from Texas A&M on a long term,renewable loan. The upgrade will involve the building of apparatus especially designed by the PI to carry out experiments of special interest to scientists studying the behavior of materials in fault zones. The proposed upgrade involves construction of a computerized data acquisition and servo- controlled system,a flow- through pore fluid system,a simplified sealing and sample assembly,and a furnace and controller to achieve elevated temperatures. Upgrade of the rock deformation apparatus and laboratory will allow the development of a research program that will involve graduate students and other researchers interested in the frictional and brittle behavior of rock in fault zones under conditions that favor soluttion transfer and cataclastic mechanisms.

该奖项将提供升级圣路易斯大学岩石力学实验室所需资金的一半。圣路易斯大学已承诺为实现这一目标提供额外资金。这将是对从德州农工公司借来的长期可再生贷款设备的升级。升级将包括建造由PI专门设计的设备，以进行对研究断层带中物质行为的科学家特别感兴趣的实验。提出的升级包括构建计算机数据采集和伺服控制系统，通过孔隙流体系统，简化的密封和样品组装，以及用于实现高温的炉和控制器。岩石变形设备和实验室的升级将允许开展一个研究项目，该项目将吸引研究生和其他对断层带中岩石在有利于溶液转移和碎裂机制的条件下的摩擦和脆性行为感兴趣的研究人员。