Significant Strength Increase
This marine silty clay with layered hydrates exhibits remarkable strength and stiffness enhancement with hydrate content under low confining pressure, offering more reliable mechanical parameter predictions for hydrate exploitation in the South China Sea.
Peng-fei, Xie · Lu, Cheng · Li, Bing · Wang, Tianju · Rui, Wang · Zhang, Xuhui · Lu, Xiaobing · Zhang, Bin · Yan, Zhang · Zhang, Xinrui
Ocean Engineering 2024
Average error between predicted mechanical parameters and experimental results is within 10%