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Effect of sieving height on density and friction of brittle analogue material: Ring-shear test data of corundum sand used for analogue experiments in the Tectonic Modelling Lab of the University of Bern (CH)

Schmid, Timothy | Schreurs, Guido | Warsitzka, Michael | Rosenau, Matthias

(2019)

This dataset provides friction data from ring-shear tests (RST) for a corundum sand (“NKF120”). This material is used in various types of analogue experiments in Tectonic Modelling Lab of the University of Bern as an analogue for brittle layers in the crust or lithosphere. The material has been characterized by means of internal friction coefficients μ and cohesions C. Three sub-datasets represent a systematic increase of the sieving height from 10 cm to 20 cm to 30 cm into a shear cell of type No. 1, following the same protocol. This dataset shows that packing density of corundum sand is dependent on the chosen sieving height. However, the effect of the sieving height on internal friction coefficients μ as well as cohesion C is minor and thus negligible in sandbox experiments. According to our analysis the material shows for a sieving height of 10 cm a Mohr-Coulomb behaviour characterized by a linear failure envelope and peak, dynamic and reactivation friction coefficients of μP = 0.75, μD = 0.64 and μR = 0.68, respectively. Cohesions C are in the order of 70 – 105 Pa.

Keywords


Originally assigned keywords
EPOS
analogue models of geologic processes
multiscale Laboratories
property data of analogue modelling materials
cohesion
Friction coefficient
Ringshear tester
Corrundum sand
fracturing
tectonic and structural features
European Plate Observing System
PHYSICALLABORATORY MODELS
RIFTING
PLATE BOUNDARIES
CALIBRATIONVALIDATION
LabView Deformation Mapper
Force sensor
Shear Box
sand
Analogue material
Imposed Stress
Density

Corresponding MSL vocabulary keywords
cohesion
cohesion
friction coefficient
frictional deformation
friction coefficient
rifting
tectonic plate boundary
LabView Deformation Mapper
shear box
sand

MSL enriched keywords
Measured property
friction - controlled slip rate
cohesion
Measured property
friction - controlled slip rate
cohesion
friction coefficient
Inferred deformation behavior
deformation behaviour
frictional deformation
friction coefficient
tectonic plate boundary
divergent tectonic plate boundary
rifting
Software
LabView Deformation Mapper
Apparatus
analogue modelling
deformation experiments
shear box
unconsolidated sediment
clastic sediment
sand
analogue modelling material
granular modelling material
natural granular material
corundum sand
Apparatus
deformation testing
shear testing
rotary shear apparatus
characterization of modelling material
frictional property determination
rotary shear apparatus
brittle deformation
Earth's structure
lithosphere

MSL original sub domains

analogue modelling of geologic processes

MSL enriched sub domains i

analogue modelling of geologic processes
rock and melt physics


DOI

10.5880/fidgeo.2020.005


Authors

Schmid, Timothy

0000-0002-9477-9654

Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern, Switzerland

Schreurs, Guido

0000-0002-4544-7514

Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern, Switzerland

Warsitzka, Michael

0000-0003-1774-5888

GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany

Rosenau, Matthias

0000-0003-1134-5381

GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany


References

Klinkmüller, M., Schreurs, G., Rosenau, M., & Kemnitz, H. (2016). Properties of granular analogue model materials: A community wide survey. Tectonophysics, 684, 23–38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2016.01.017

10.1016/j.tecto.2016.01.017

References

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10.1016/j.jsg.2006.05.004

References

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10.1002/2016JB012915

References

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10.1016/j.jsg.2015.03.008

References

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10.1002/ceat.200303112

References

References

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10.1016/j.tecto.2016.02.036

References


Contact

Rosenau, Matthias

GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany


Citiation

Schmid, T., Schreurs, G., Warsitzka, M., & Rosenau, M. (2020). Effect of sieving height on density and friction of brittle analogue material: Ring-shear test data of corundum sand used for analogue experiments in the Tectonic Modelling Lab of the University of Bern (CH) [Data set]. GFZ Data Services. https://doi.org/10.5880/FIDGEO.2020.005