基于高提升速度塌落实验预测充填料浆黏度

Predicting the viscosity of backfilling slurry based on slump tests with high lifting velocity

  • 摘要: 塌落实验是预测充填料浆屈服应力的重要手段,如何基于该方法同时预测料浆的黏度仍是一个挑战. 本文通过室内试验和数值模拟方法,研究了不同宾汉姆屈服应力和黏度条件下粉煤灰充填料浆的塌落过程,揭示了在高提升速度(0.1 m·s–1)条件下塌落度及扩展度与宾汉姆屈服应力及黏度之间的关联规律. 研究结果表明,当宾汉姆屈服应力保持不变时,随着料浆宾汉姆黏度的增大,塌落度呈线性下降趋势,而扩展度也不断减小但降幅逐渐趋缓;当宾汉姆黏度保持不变时,随着屈服应力增大,塌落度线性减小,扩展度在低黏度区间内近似线性下降,而在高黏度区间则呈现非线性降低特征. 在高提升速度条件下,扩展度相比塌落度表现出更显著的变化规律,因而适合作为表征宾汉姆黏度变化的指标. 基于神经网络等四种回归方法,构建了基于料浆扩展度和宾汉姆屈服应力的宾汉姆黏度预测模型,其中随机森林和神经网络模型表现出较好的预测性能. 上述研究结果验证了高提升速度塌落实验在预测料浆宾汉姆黏度方面的可行性.

     

    Abstract: The slump test is well-established as a conventional method to estimate the yield stress of filling slurries, and its ability to predict yield stress based on the height of the slumped material by simply lifting the slump cone off the slurry at a low velocity has been studied extensively. However, determining the viscosity of slurries accurately using the same test remains a significant challenge. Given that the influence of viscosity on the height of the slumped slurry and the diameter to which it spreads is negligible at low lifting velocities (e.g., 0.01 m·s–1), a modified slump test conducted with the cone lifted at a higher velocity (0.1 m·s–1) is proposed in this study. A custom-designed slump apparatus was adopted to control the lifting velocity of the conical mold precisely, and the profile of the slumped slurry was measured using a laser rangefinder in each test. To systematically investigate the coupled effects of Bingham yield stress and viscosity on the slump height and spread diameter, numerical simulations were performed to analyze the slumping behavior of fly ash slurry under various combinations of yield stress and viscosity. The simulations specifically focused on conditions involving a mold with a high lifting velocity of 0.1 m·s–1 to reveal correlations between the Bingham parameters on the one hand and the slump height and spread diameter on the other. Dynamic mesh techniques were applied along with the volume of fluid method to simulate the collapse process to acquire information on slumping behavior under arbitrary yield stress and viscosity values. The numerical results were validated against experimental data obtained from slump tests conducted at a low lifting velocity of 0.01 m·s–1 and showed good agreement. In parallel, lubrication theory was applied to predict the profiles of the slumped slurry at different solid mass fractions, and these theoretical predictions also coincided well with the experimental measurements. The results of the simulation revealed several key trends. When the Bingham yield stress was held constant, the slump height decreased linearly with increasing Bingham viscosity. In contrast, although the spread diameter also decreased with increasing viscosity, the rate of reduction gradually diminished. When the Bingham viscosity was kept constant, the slump height decreased linearly with increasing yield stress. Meanwhile, the spread diameter exhibited an approximately linear decrease in the low-viscosity range but decreased nonlinearly in the high-viscosity range. Under conditions with high lifting velocity, the spread diameter showed more pronounced variations in response to changes in Bingham viscosity compared to slump height. Thus, this value was more sensitive as an indicator for characterizing variations in viscosity. Consequently, spread diameter was selected as the primary parameter to construct a predictive model of Bingham viscosity based on the results of the slump test. Four different versions of the predictive model for Bingham viscosity were developed, with each using a different regression method, including quadratic polynomial regression, random forest, eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), and neural network models. The inputs to the models included the known spread diameter and Bingham yield stress. Among the four methods, the random forest and neural network models exhibited superior predictive performance with higher accuracy and better generalization capability. These findings validate the feasibility of using slump tests with high lifting velocity to predict the Bingham viscosity of mineral slurries. Given that the conventional slump test at low lifting velocity (0.01 m·s–1) has already been applied to predict yield stress, the successful determination of Bingham viscosity using a modified slump test at a higher lifting velocity (0.1 m·s–1) implies that complete characterization of both Bingham yield stress and viscosity can be achieved through just two sets of slump tests, with one performed at low and the other at high velocity. This dual-test approach offers a simple, rapid, and cost-effective alternative to conventional rheometers, which are often expensive and unsuitable for on-site or field applications.

     

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