Experimental study on modification of water-based filtercake to improve the bonding strength at the wellbore cement-formation interface

The objective of this experimental study is to improve the cementing bond quality of sandstone oil-gas well along the wellbore cement-formation interface(WCFI),so as to ensure long-term zonal isolation throughout the lifecycle of the well by using NsO solution as filtercake modifier which was developed in the laboratory.According to designed experimental method and API RP 10,the effectiveness of filtercake modifier(NSO)on the bonding strength at the WCFI was assessed by using designed simulated wellbore as sandstone formation.The experimental results indicated that the samples which were treated with NsO solution had higher bond strength over untreated samples.The strength generally increased with curing period as for treated samples,0.198,0.374,0.433 and 0.473 MPa for 3,7,15,and 30 days respectively while for the untreated samples the bond strength were 0.050,0.070,0.81 and 0.100 MPa for the same period.The water-based filtercake modification techniques had significantly enhanced the bonding strength of WCFI by increasing rates above 296%.Improvement of bond strength to the treated sample was due to filtercake modification as a result of formation of cementitious material as revealed in FTIR spectral such as Calcium-Silicate-Hydrate(C-S-H)and other geopolymers like Calcium-Aluminium-Silicate-Hydrate(C-A-S-H)and Sodium-Aluminium-Silicate-Hydrate(N-A-S-H)along the interface which filled the existed pores hence reducing porosity hence high strength of bond.The low transmittance value for the NsO treated samples revealed that there were more cementitious materials existing at the WCFI which led to improvement of bonding strength as compared to the untreated samples.The lower/poor bond strength for the untreated samples is due to existence of untreated,thick water-based filtercake films at WCFI,which prevented the complete hydration process between rock grains and cement slurry components to make chemical binder of cement slurry material and formation.2022 The Authors.Publishing services provided by Elsevier B.V.on behalf of KeAi Communication Co.Ltd.This is an open access article under the cc BY license(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.o/).

Buckling analysis of planar linear uniform deployable structures consisting of scissor-like element in space under compression

This paper comprehensively investigates the buckling load and the stability of a planar linear array deployable structure composed of scissor-like element(SLE)under compression.At present,the researches on deployable structure are mainly focused on configuration design and dynamics characteristics of the mechanisms,but less on structural instability.In fact,when the external load exceeds the structural critical load value,the deployable structure will be permanently deformed or even collapse directly and no longer have any bearing capacity.To address this issue,a new stability model is derived using linear elastic analysis method and substructure method to evaluate the buckling characteristics of the deployable structure with n SLEs when it is carried out in space,which can accurately obtain the structural instability load and can be used quantitatively to optimize the structure for making it have the most stable configuration.In addition,the effects of the number of elements,the length,material properties and flexibility of the bar,and the deployment degree on the buckling of the scissor deployable structure are investigated,and the results of the theoretical analysis are compared with simulation and analytical results,respectively,confirming that the proposed stability model not only is able to effectively predict the structural instability load but also determine which part of the deployable structure is unstable.It can be concluded that the stability of the deployable structure gradually decreases with the increase of the number of elements or the bar flexibility.In the calculation process,the critical load of each sub-element should be considered,and the minimum value of the critical loads of all subunits can be regarded as the instability load of the whole structure.

Forward collision warning system for motorcyclist using smart phone sensors based on time-to-collision and trajectory prediction

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to develop a proof-of-concept(POC)Forward Collision Warning(FWC)system for the motorcyclist,which determines a potential clash based on time-to-collision and trajectory of both the detected and ego vehicle(motorcycle).Design/methodology/approach–This comes in three approaches.First,time-to-collision value is to be calculated based on low-cost camera video input.Second,the trajectory of the detected vehicle is predicted based on video data in the 2 D pixel coordinate.Third,the trajectory of the ego vehicle is predicted via the lean direction of the motorcycle from a low-cost inertial measurement unit sensor.Findings–This encompasses a comprehensive Advanced FWC system which is an amalgamation of the three approaches mentioned above.First,to predict time-to-collision,nested Kalmanfilter and vehicle detection is used to convert image pixel matrix to relative distance,velocity and time-to-collision data.Next,for trajectory prediction of detected vehicles,a few algorithms were compared,and it was found that long short-term memory performs the best on the data set.The lastfinding is that to determine the leaning direction of the ego vehicle,it is better to use lean angle measurement compared to riding pattern classification.Originality/value–The value of this paper is that it provides a POC FWC system that considers time-to-collision and trajectory of both detected and ego vehicle(motorcycle).