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Mechanical test data of quartz sand, garnet sand, gypsum powder (plaster), kaolin and sand-plaster mixtures used as granular analogue materials in geoscience laboratory experiments

Poppe, Sam; Holohan, Eoghan P.; Rudolf, Michael; Rosenau, Matthias; Galland, Olivier; Delcamp, Audray; Van Gompel, Gert; Buls, Nico; Soens, Bastien; Pohlenz, Andre; Mourgues, Régis; Kervyn, Matthieu;

2021 || GFZ Data Services

This dataset provides mechanical test data for quartz sand (“MAM1ST-300”, Sibelco, Mol, Belgium), gypsum powder (plaster; “Goldband”, Knauf), kaolin clay powder, garnet sand, and mixtures of quartz sand and gypsum powder, used at the Analogue Laboratory of the Department of Geography at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, for simulating brittle rocks in the upper crust (Poppe et al., 2019). The measured properties are density ρ, tensile strength T0, shear strength σ, obtained by density measurements, ring-shear tests (RST; at Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ, Germany), direct shear tests, traction tests (at University of Maine, Le Mans, France) and extension tests. The obtained tensile strengths and shear strengths reconstruct two-dimensional failure envelopes for each material. By fitting linear Coulomb and non-linear combined Griffith failure criteria to the characterised failure envelopes (Jaeger et al., 2007), the internal friction coefficient µC, Coulomb cohesion CC and Griffith cohesion CG are obtained. The influence of the material emplacement technique has been investigated in Poppe et al. (2021) to which this data set is supplementary, by repeat characterisation of the above physical parameters under three emplacement conditions, i.e. sieving, pouring (non-dried state) and compaction after pouring (oven-dried state).

We find that densities of the materials and mixtures range from ~1600 kg.m³ (sieved) and ~1700 kg.m³ (compacted) for pure quartz sand to ~600 kg.m³ (poured) to ~900 kg.m³ (compacted) for pure plaster. Tensile strengths range from ~166 Pa (sand) to ~425 Pa (plaster). Velocity ring-shear tests on a 90 wt% quartz sand – 10 wt% plaster mixture show a minor shear rate-weakening of <2% per ten-fold increase in shear velocity. The materials show a behavior ranging from Mohr-Coulomb behavior for the materials with coarser grain size (sands) to combined Griffith-Mohr-Coulomb behavior for the powder materials (plaster, kaolin), with the sand-plaster mixtures occupying a spectrum between both end-members. Peak friction coefficients range from ~0.5 (sand) to ~0.6 (plaster) with a maximum of ~0.9 (80:20 wt% sand:plaster), peak Coulomb cohesions range from 13 Pa (sand) to 248 Pa (plaster), peak Griffith cohesions range from ~10 Pa (sand) to ~425 Pa (plaster).

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MSL enriched sub domains	rock and melt physics analogue modelling of geologic processes geochemistry microscopy and tomography
Source	http://dx.doi.org/10.5880/fidgeo.2021.005
Source publisher	GFZ Data Services
DOI	10.5880/fidgeo.2021.005
Authors	Poppe, Sam 0000-0002-8787-8590 Physical Geography, Department of Geography, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; Laboratoire G-Time, Department of Geosciences, the Environment and Society, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Holohan, Eoghan P. 0000-0002-5930-6712 UCD School of Earth Sciences, University College of Dublin, Ireland; Rudolf, Michael 0000-0002-5077-5221 GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany; Rosenau, Matthias 0000-0003-1134-5381 GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany; Galland, Olivier 0000-0002-8087-428X Physics of Geological Processes, Njord Center, University of Oslo, Norway ; Delcamp, Audray 0000-0001-8249-8575 Physical Geography, Department of Geography, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; Van Gompel, Gert 0000-0002-9380-7756 Department of Radiology, UZ Brussel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; Buls, Nico 0000-0003-2830-6899 Department of Radiology, UZ Brussel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; Soens, Bastien 0000-0002-7695-6629 Analytical, Environmental and Geo-Chemistry, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium ; Laboratoire G-Time, Department of Geosciences, the Environment and Society, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Pohlenz, Andre GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany; Mourgues, Régis Géosciences Le Mans, Le Mans Université, France; Kervyn, Matthieu 0000-0002-4966-3468 Physical Geography, Department of Geography, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium;
Contributors	Poppe, Sam ContactPerson 0000-0002-8787-8590 Physical Geography, Department of Geography, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; Laboratoire G-Time, Department of Geosciences, the Environment and Society, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Poppe, Sam DataCollector 0000-0002-8787-8590 Physical Geography, Department of Geography, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; Laboratoire G-Time, Department of Geosciences, the Environment and Society, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Holohan, Eoghan P. Supervisor 0000-0002-5930-6712 UCD School of Earth Sciences, University College of Dublin, Ireland; Rudolf, Michael DataCollector 0000-0002-5077-5221 GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany; Rosenau, Matthias Supervisor 0000-0003-1134-5381 GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany; Galland, Olivier RelatedPerson 0000-0002-8087-428X Physics of Geological Processes, Njord Center, University of Oslo, Norway ; Delcamp, Audray RelatedPerson 0000-0001-8249-8575 Physical Geography, Department of Geography, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; Van Gompel, Gert DataCollector 0000-0002-9380-7756 Department of Radiology, UZ Brussel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; Buls, Nico DataCollector 0000-0003-2830-6899 Department of Radiology, UZ Brussel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; Soens, Bastien DataCollector 0000-0002-7695-6629 Analytical, Environmental and Geo-Chemistry, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium ; Laboratoire G-Time, Department of Geosciences, the Environment and Society, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Pohlenz, Andre DataCollector GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany; Mourgues, Régis RelatedPerson Géosciences Le Mans, Le Mans Université, France; Kervyn, Matthieu Supervisor 0000-0002-4966-3468 Physical Geography, Department of Geography, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; Poppe, Sam ContactPerson Laboratoire G-Time, Department of Geosciences, the Environment and Society, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium;
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Contact	Poppe, Sam Laboratoire G-Time, Department of Geosciences, the Environment and Society, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Poppe, Sam Laboratoire G-Time, Department of Geosciences, the Environment and Society, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium;
Citation	Poppe, S., Holohan, E. P., Rudolf, M., Rosenau, M., Galland, O., Delcamp, A., Van Gompel, G., Buls, N., Soens, B., Pohlenz, A., Mourgues, R., & Kervyn, M. (2021). Mechanical test data of quartz sand, garnet sand, gypsum powder (plaster), kaolin and sand-plaster mixtures used as granular analogue materials in geoscience laboratory experiments [Data set]. GFZ Data Services. https://doi.org/10.5880/FIDGEO.2021.005