14939 results about "Geotechnical engineering" patented technology

The present invention generally relates to a method and an apparatus for drilling with casing. In one aspect, a method of drilling a wellbore with casing is provided, including placing a string of casing with a drill bit at the lower end thereof into a previously formed wellbore and urging the string of casing axially downward to form a new section of wellbore. The method further includes pumping fluid through the string of casing into an annulus formed between the casing string and the new section of wellbore. The method also includes diverting a portion of the fluid into an upper annulus in the previously formed wellbore. In another aspect, a method of drilling with casing to form a wellbore is provided. In yet another aspect, an apparatus for forming a wellbore is provided. In still another aspect, a method of casing a wellbore while drilling the wellbore is provided.

A method of drilling a wellbore includes drilling the wellbore through a formation by injecting drilling fluid through a drill string and rotating a drill bit. The drill string includes a shifting tool, a receiver in communication with the shifting tool, and the drill bit. The method further includes retrieving the drill string from the wellbore through a casing string until the shifting tool reaches an actuator. The casing string includes an isolation valve in an open position and the actuator. The method further includes sending a wireless instruction signal to the receiver. The shifting tool engages the actuator in response to the receiver receiving the instruction signal. The method further includes operating the actuator using the engaged shifting tool, thereby closing the isolation valve and isolating the formation from an upper portion of the wellbore.

A piezoelectric debris sensor and associated signal processor responsive to debris strikes enable an autonomous or non-autonomous cleaning device to detect the presence of debris and in response, to select a behavioral mode, operational condition or pattern of movement, such as spot coverage or the like. Multiple sensor channels (e.g., left and right) can be used to enable the detection or generation of differential left/right debris signals and thereby enable an autonomous device to steer in the direction of debris.

A wellbore is formed by using an apparatus that may include a shaft having an end portion, a drill bit body tiltable about the end portion, and at least one actuator configured to apply a tilting force to the drill bit body.

The invention discloses an experimental method of simulating dynamic and static load and a device thereof, relating to indoor model experimental technique of geotechnical engineering. The structure of the device is as follows: a model experimental platform (1), a model experimental box (2) and a load transmitting lever (3) are sequentially connected; the load transmitting lever (3) is respectively connected with a static load system (4) and a dynamic load system (5) which are respectively connected with a dynamic signal testing system (6); the dynamic signal testing system (6), a data acquisition system (7) and a computer (8) are sequentially connected. The device caries out dynamic and static load experiments on different structure models, and can monitor and collect non-linear properties of deformation and stress of gneiss under complex load condition in real time. The device has intuitional testing principle, simple structure, high precision, good stability, easy operation, convenient detachment and no high technical requirement to mounting and testing workers.

Methods of drilling subterranean formations include coupling at least one bearing block having an initial thickness to a drill bit, engaging a formation with the drill bit within an initial depth of cut range, and reducing the initial thickness of the bearing block by contacting the formation to cause the initial depth of cut range to be at least partially increased. Methods of forming drill bits for drilling subterranean formations include forming at least one rubbing surface of at least one bearing block from at least one material exhibiting a reduced coefficient of friction and coupling the at least one bearing block to the drill bit. Drill bit assemblies include at least one bearing block having a distal portion configured to provide an initial depth of cut range and a base portion configured to provide an increased depth of cut range greater than the initial depth of cut range.

A method to control borehole fluid flow includes detecting a drilling condition and operating at least one valve in the drill string to place an exterior of the drill string in fluid communication with an interior of the drill string in response to detecting the drilling condition.

An upscaling method for efficiently simulating a geological model of subsurface reservoir is disclosed. The method includes providing a fine-scale geological model of a subsurface reservoir associated with a fine-scale grid and a coarse-scale grid. Time-dependent fluid flow solutions, such as fluxes and saturations, are computed for the coarse-scale grid cells. The coarse-scale fluid flow solutions are distributed onto local fine-scale boundaries to obtain local fine-scale boundary conditions. Fine-scale cell fluid flow solutions are computed within the local fine-scale boundaries using the local fine-scale boundary conditions. Two-phase upscaling functions are computed with the fine-scale cell fluid flow solutions and are output to produce a display of fluid flow within the subsurface reservoir.

The invention relates to a tunnel lining self waterproof drainage system, which comprises a surrounding rock bearing arch, a cast-in-place cement main waterproof layer, a pre-cast cement arch sheet layer and longitudinal drainage channels. Arch sheet layer construction gaps and cast-in-place cement main waterproof layer construction gaps are interlaced. The tunnel lining self waterproof drainage system is characterized in that movable drainage grooves are fixedly arranged below the pre-cast cement arch sheet layer of centralized bursting water seepage points of loose surrounding rocks, and form arch sheet drainage spaces with an inwards concave surface of the pre-cast cement arch sheet layer, the parallel drainage spaces distributed along the section of a tunnel form a movable drainage channel, the longitudinal drainage channels are communicated and are arranged on two sides of the movable drainage channel and the pavement of the tunnel, pre-embedded water guiding pipes are arranged at the centralized bursting water seepage points, a water outlet end of each pre-embedded water guiding pipe is arranged on the inwards concave surface of the pre-cast cement arch sheet layer, and pre-embedded grouting pipes are arranged outside the pre-embedded water guiding pipes. The invention completely solves stubborn problems of the tunnel on cracking, seeping, frost heaving, ponding or freezing and the like on the premise of not arranging an interlayer waterproof layer and a hidden seepage water blind pipe drainage system, and the tunnel lining self waterproof drainage system disclosed by the invention has a simple structure and is convenient to construct.

A perimeter clip attached to a wall molding that supports a beam in a suspended ceiling intended to survive seismic disturbances. The clip is capable, during an earthquake, of permitting an end of a beam at one end of a connected line of beams, in a grid, to slide while being supported in the clip, or, in the alternative, to secure an end of a beam to the wall molding.

The invention discloses a testing device and a measuring and calculating method for the gas permeability of compact rock material. Under the condition that the gas pressure at two ends of a rock sample are controlled to be the same, a gas pressure pulse is applied to the lower surface of the rock sample by a gas pressure control panel. When gas penetrates through the rock sample and enters a known pressure air storage tank under the action of the pressure of the pulse, the gas permeability of the rock sample is calculated by recording the change of the pressure of the pulse with time. The testing device and the measuring and calculating method are applicable to the measurement of permeability of mediums with low permeability, such as the storage of underground petroleum and natural gas, the storage of CO2, the disposal of nuclear waste, the storage of shale gas and the like and the measurement and calculation of the permeability of other compact rock mediums. Materials the permeability of mediums is between around 10-24m2 can all be measured and calculated by the device system.

In accordance with aspects of the present disclosure, techniques for predicting, classifying, preventing, and remedying drilling fluid circulation loss events are disclosed. Tools for gathering relevant data are disclosed, and techniques for interpreting the resultant data as giving rise to an actual or potential drilling fluid lost circulation event are also disclosed.

In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a method for drilling wellbores includes drilling a main wellbore and disposing a casing string in the main wellbore. The casing string has a deflecting member and a sealing member coupled thereto. The method further includes disposing a drill string having a drill bit coupled at a lower end thereof in the casing string and drilling, from the main wellbore, a first lateral wellbore at a first depth with the drill bit. The method further includes removing the drill bit from the first lateral wellbore, transferring the casing string and the drill bit to a second depth that is higher than the first depth, drilling, from the main wellbore, a second lateral wellbore at the second depth with the drill bit, and preventing, using the sealing member, a fluid from the first lateral wellbore from flowing above approximately the second depth while drilling the second lateral wellbore.

The invention relates to a multifunctional assembly type physical similarity testing system for geotechnical engineering. The multifunctional assembly type physical similarity testing system is characterized by comprising a model box, a loading device and a data acquisition unit, wherein the model box comprises a left side plate, a right side plate, a front side plate, a rear side plate and a bottom plate which are detachably assembled; the loading device comprises a test rack, a sensor, a jack and a control panel, the jack can be glidingly arranged on the test rack in horizontal transverse direction and/or horizontal longitudinal direction and located above the model box, the sensor is arranged above the jack, and the control panel is connected with the jack and the sensor and controls and records data information of the jack and the sensor; the loading device is arranged above the model box; the data acquisition unit is used for acquiring and recording data information of a geotechnical engineering simulation model in the model box. The multifunctional assembly type physical similarity testing system has the advantages that pertinence and accuracy during testing are improved, the rate of utilization of the testing system is increased, and the system can be applied to simulation testing of geotechnical engineering issues such as a slope, excavation of a foundation pit, a pile foundation, a composite foundation, soil anchoring and the like.

The following invention relates to a drill bit that will drill a round and precisely sized hole when using a hand-held drill motor. The bit has a unique multi-angle lip relief that cuts faster than a standard drill bit and stays sharp longer as well.

The invention relates to a novel highway embankment widened structure. The original roadbed slope of the structure is trimmed into a step shape, a high pressure jet grouting pile is disposed below an original roadbed slope cushion layer, pressurized continuous grouting is employed at an original roadbed cushion layer to form a slurry solid bearing plate, parts of pore cavities of the original roadbed are recharged with fine aggregate concrete or mortar; foundation treatment piles are employed to reinforce the foundation of a widened area, a drainage cushion layer is laid throughout the top of the foundation treatment piles; an earthwork cloth is laid on the drainage cushion layer, a cement soil plate is disposed on the earthwork cloth, high strength reinforcing mesh sheets are disposed in the cement soil plate; and the widened area embankment is formed by layered filling of excavation soil and light filler in a construction process. The structure provided by the invention can reinforce the bearing capacity of roadbed soil on both sides of the widened area and the original roadbed slope strength, and enhance the integrality of the embankment structure, reduce longitudinal cracks induced by differential settlement and the like at the juncture of new and old roadbeds, thus having good technical and economic benefits. The invention also discloses a construction method of the novel highway embankment widened structure.

The system is composed of flow taking transducer, regulation unit of front end signal, regulation unit of back end signal, data collection unit, data analysis unit and trend predictive unit. The present invention has developed software of remote monitoring, trend prediction, data processing, data analysing and circulation detecting for multiple equipment-multiple pollution leakage current by using virtual equipment and graphic programming language LabVIIEW with combining of SQLSERVER2000 databank system.

The invention relates to an indoor pull-out test apparatus for an anchor rod, which belongs to the technical field of geotechnical engineering. The apparatus comprises a horizontal loading system, a vertical loading system, an anchor rod pulling system, a box, support columns and a bearing plate. The test apparatus can realize loading of a sample at two horizontal directions and a vertical direction and overcomes the problem that a traditional indoor pull-out test apparatus for an anchor rod cannot carry out pull-out test under loading conditions; the test apparatus is provided with an acoustic emission sensor, can realize whole-course monitoring of damage, breakage and generation and expansion of cracks in the sample during pull-out test of the anchor rod and overcomes the limitation that mechanical response of an anchoring body cannot be conveniently monitored in traditional indoor pull-out test. The test apparatus provided by the invention can be applied in pull-out experimental study of mechanical behaviors of an expansion shell anchor rod and a corresponding anchoring body in geotechnical engineering so as to provide scientific experimental bases for test of anchoring performance of the expansion shell anchor rod and can also be applied in pull-out experimental study of a bond-type anchor rod.

The present invention generally relates to an additive package for warm-mix asphalt formulations for the pavement of road surfaces, said additive package comprising a) surfactant component, and b) an asphalt rheology modifying component, wherein said asphalt rheology modifying component comprises at least one of a i) a wax component and ii) a resin component. The invention also relates to a warm mix asphalt having improved compaction at lower temperatures, and to a pavement made from said warm mix asphalt.

The invention relates to a rock asphalt composite modifier as well as a preparation method and application thereof. The rock asphalt composite modifier is compounded from 10-90% of rock asphalt and 10-90% of an admixture, and can improve the high-low temperature performance of asphalt and reduce the temperature sensibility of the asphalt when being added into matrix asphalt. The rock asphalt composite modifier disclosed by the invention can be used for preparing a composite modified asphalt mixture and can make up the defects including poor storage stability, high price and high compatibility requirement for the matrix asphalt of intra-industry ordinary SBS (styrene-butadiene-styrene) modified asphalt at present; the rock asphalt composite modifier can reduce the mixing temperature of the asphalt mixture, improve the adhesion to stones and then delay the time of problems including pavement ruts, displacement, embracement, cracks, loose falling and the like, so that the service life of a road is prolonged. The rock asphalt composite modifier disclosed by the invention not only achieves an effect of modifying the performance of asphalt but also can reduce the asphalt dosage of the asphalt mixture, so that road mechanical properties of a pavement are improved, the construction cost is saved, and very good social and economic benefits are achieved.

Dry flowable solid compositions useful for preparing precision excavation and soil-grouting fluids are disclosed. The compositions are formulated so that, when added to water to form an excavation fluid, they enable the fluid in contact with unstable or sandy soils in the selected areas of the excavation to react and form silicate-based derivatives with lesser solubility and movement, thereby improving soil stability at the excavation wall.

The invention relates to a mine roadway advancing and undermining method and main blasting parameters. The mine roadway advancing and undermining method is characterized in that blast holes are arranged in a double-lug cracking undermining mode, the nine undermined blast holes are perpendicular to an upright working face and are arranged along an area which is below the center of the working face and separated from the center of the working face by the distance ranging from 10cm to 30cm, and form a cross, the central blast hole and the four end blast holes are charging holes, and holes among the central blast hole and the four end blast holes are empty holes; and vertical cracking undermined holes are detonated at first to form a cracking seam, and then the double-lug undermined holes are detonated, so that a prismatic slot cavity centered at the cross is formed. The main roadway advancing blasting parameters include the diameter of each blast hole, the pitch between each two blast holes, the depth of each blast hole, the number of the blast holes and specific explosive consumption. The empty holes used as free faces are added among the charging undermined holes arranged by the double-lug cracking undermining method, the millisecond blasting technology is adopted, and the blasting free faces are added, so that a clamping effect of ore rock is relieved, smooth undermining can be realized, and blast hole utilization rate can be increased to a great extent.

The invention relates to a gas drainage method combining surface and underground fracturing and permeability improvement, and the method comprises the following steps: building underground large-diameter directional long boreholes in a coal reservoir or the top and bottom plates thereof under a coal mine by using a drilling machine; then building pressure relief holes in a coal bed having an appropriate distance with the large-diameter directional long boreholes; building vertical wells communicated with an underground large-diameter directional long borehole filed or nearby roadways thereof from the ground to the underground; firmly connecting large ground fracturing equipment, a ground vertical well shaft and the underground large-diameter directional long boreholes by using high pressure pipelines; carrying out fracturing on each underground large-diameter directional long borehole by using the large ground fracturing equipment to form a three-dimensional fracture network; discharging water in the underground large-diameter directional long boreholes and then carrying out continuous pressure extraction on fracturing holes and the pressure relief holes; and quickly extracting out the coal bed gas through negative pressure by using the three-dimensional fracture network. According to the invention, the coal bed gas can be extracted out quickly with high efficiency by using the three-dimensional fracture network and negative pressure, thereby providing a technical guarantee for safe and high-efficiency production of mines; and the method has the advantage of wide application prospect.

A geothermal in-ground conduit system and a method of constructing and installing same are described. The system comprises at least one loop of flexible tubing adapted to convect a heat exchange liquid therein. The loop has a lower end section and opposed spaced-apart elongated side sections communicating with one another. The lower end section is retained in a soil penetrating head. The soil penetrating head has a leading soil penetrating and ramming face formation. A force transmitting shaft is engageable with the soil penetrating head for transmitting a pushing force against the soil penetrating head to displace same in the soil while pulling the loop and guiding the loop into the soil as the penetrating face forms passages for permanent burial of at least a major portion of the loop together with the soil penetrating head, or the soil penetrating head can be retracted.

The invention provides an indoor experiment shaft device for synchronous or asynchronous multistage clustering fracturing of two horizontal wells and a simulation method. The device and simulation method are used for indoor experiment simulation of synchronous or asynchronous multistage clustering fracturing of two shale horizontal wells. A designed multistage clustering fracturing experiment shaft can simulate influences of the number of horizontal well fracturing segments, number of perforation clusters, perforation parameters and the like on synchronous or asynchronous fracturing fracture shapes. The experiment scheme comprises the six steps of making of an experiment scheme, machining of a special experiment shaft, machining of a test piece, preparation of fracturing fluid, an extended experiment of fracturing fractures, and CT scanning of an experiment result. The novel fracturing experiment shaft and method are provided for shale reservoir fracturing research, can simulate the joint network fracturing fracture distribution of a reservoir in multistage clustering synchronous fracturing of two horizontal wells or multistage clustering asynchronous fracturing of two wells front and back, and can provide theoretical support for shale reservoir fracturing experiment research and fracturing construction.

Methods for modeling subsurface reservoirs are provided. In at least one embodiment, the process includes building a numerical model of a reservoir having at least one injection well and at least one producing well, and incorporating at least one of an Eulerian boundary condition (EBC) into each of the at least one injection well and at least one producing well, an advanced constitutive model (ACM) int the reservoir, and an adaptive re-meshing technique (ART) into the reservoir model. Then generating a simulation result from the integrated reservoir model, wherein the simulation result includes at least a volume of produced fluids and produced particulate solids from the reservoir, a volume of injected fluids and injected particulate solids into the reservoir, and a simulation of movement of at least a volume of particulate solids and fluids in the reservoir.

A system for fracturing a formation includes a tubular positionable within a formation borehole having at least one port therethrough configured to provide fluidic communication from inside the tubular to the formation borehole. The system also includes a seal sealably attachable to both the tubular and walls of the formation borehole, a seat in operable communication with the tubular and a member in operable communication with the seat such that movement of the seat relative to the tubular causes the member to engage the walls and provide stress thereto.

The invention discloses a debris flow risk degree evaluation method. The method comprises a step of determining the characteristic parameters associated with debris flow three elements, a step of establishing the comprehensive information evaluation system of the three elements, obtaining a three-element initial information evaluation matrix, and calculating the information entropy of the three elements through matrix operation and an entropy method, a step of establishing a debris flow information entropy model, taking three sub information entropy as an input factor, through BP neural network effect, and outputting debris flow information entropy, a step of defining a debris flow risk degree level standard according to the relation between the information entropy theory and the fact whether debris flow occurs, and carrying out risk degree evaluation on a search object. The invention discloses a debris flow probability model, the mutual interaction mechanism of debris flow three elements in a debris flow inoculation process can be comprehensively reflected, the complex nonlinear and dynamic processes of debris flow can be represented, the risk degree of the research object (single channel/regional debris flow) can be forecasted.

The invention provides a drilling method for a printed circuit board (PCB). The method comprises the following steps of: 1, providing a PCB to be drilled, and determining drilling depth of a front surface and drilling depth of a back surface according to the thickness of the PCB; 2, providing a cover plate and a drilling cutter, and determining the length of a blade of the drilling cutter according to the drilling depth of the front surface and the drilling depth of the back surface of the PCB and the thickness of the cover plate; 3, determining a coordinate system for drilling on the front surface of the PCB, drilling positioning holes on the front surface of the PCB, arranging the cover plate on the front surface of the PCB and fixing the PCB and the cover plate respectively; 4, drilling through the cover plate by using the drilling cutter, drilling from the front surface of the PCB to form a half hole according to the drilling depth of the front surface of the PCB, and then feeding the PCB; 5, inverting the PCB, determining a coordinate system for drilling on the back surface of the PCB, drilling positioning holes on the back surface of the PCB, arranging the cover plate on the back surface of the PCB and fixing the PCB and the cover plate respectively; and 6, drilling through the cover plate by using the drilling cutter, drilling from the back surface of the PCB to be communicated with the half hole to form a through hole according to the drilling depth of the back surface of the PCB, and feeding the PCB. In the method, a short-blade long drilling cutter is used for drilling from the two ends of the front surface and the back surface of the hole respectively, so a thicker PCB can be drilled through; and the method has the advantages of lower cost, higher drilling position accuracy and difficulty in breaking the cutter.

The invention discloses an explosion expanded internal anchor prestressed anchor cable for strengthening a weak rock and an anchoring method thereof. The anchor cable comprises a bit expanded anchor cable hole and an anchor cable body with an explosion expanded internal anchor head, wherein the explosion expanded internal anchor head consists of a lantern-shaped steel frame and a grouting body; and the lantern-shaped steel frame comprises lanced steel tubes, wire meshes and detached steel strands which are hierarchically distributed from the interior to the exterior. The anchoring method comprises the following steps of: drilling an anchor cable hole by using a driller, putting explosive at the bottom of the hole for explosion after holing, cleaning the hole and making a spherical cavity formed at the bottom of the drilled hole; simultaneously making an initial sample of the explosion expanded internal anchor head anchor cable by using the steel strands, the steel tubes, the wire meshes, the explosive and the like, inserting the anchor cable, igniting the explosive in the initial sample of the anchor cable, and forming the lantern-shaped internal anchor head steel frame; and finally grouting, and stretching and locking the anchor cable. The invention can obviously improve the bearing capacity of the internal anchor head grouting body and the prestress of the anchor cable, effectively solves the problem of poor anchored force of the anchor cable in the process of strengthening the weak rock, and can shorten the length of the internal anchoring section and widen an effective range of anchoring the rock.