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Aoki, Kazuhiro; Imai, Hirotaro; Seshimo, Kazuyoshi; Kimura, Megumi; Kirita, Fumio; Nakanishi, Ryuji
JAEA-Research 2024-005, 177 Pages, 2024/10
JAEA-Research-2024-005.pdf:12.02MB
This study presents a method for evaluating displacements on active faults that lack clear markers of fault offset. The method uses geological surveys, core studies, and chemical analyses along with hydraulic and mechanical tests. We applied this method to three test sites along the Shionohira Fault (Shionohira and Betto sites) and the Kuruma Fault (Minakamikita site). Laboratory friction tests on the fault gouge using a variable-speed, rotating shear friction apparatus were conducted. The samples from the Shionohira and Betto sites showed velocity weakening or strengthening, but no velocity dependence was observed at the Minakamikita site. A small-scale test to induce fault slip was conducted using the SIMFIP method. At the Shionohira site, fault slip can be modeled as a Coulomb rupture and shows a frictional dependence on slip velocity. On the other hand, at the Minakamikita site, a complex response using multiple fractures and slip planes was observed. Based on the water pressure response, the hydraulic properties of the area between the faults were evaluated. The transmissivity and specific storage are larger at Shionohira than at Minakamikita. Fault slip data such as shear plane attitude or shear sense were obtained from core samples and stress inversion analysis was performed. We attempted to elucidate the history of the movement and stress that formed the fracture zone. The results reconstructed five activity stages at Shionohira site and two stages at Minakamikita site. As shown in this report, the frictional properties, fault rupture mode, hydraulic properties and the history of fault motion were found to be different between the Shionohira and Kuruma sites. However, the results are based on a few locational data, so case studies at other sites and more applications to other faults should be considered to improve the reliability of the evaluation.
Takai, Shizuka; Shimada, Taro; Takeda, Seiji; Koike, Katsuaki*
Mathematical Geosciences, 56(2), p.333 - 360, 2024/02
Times Cited Count：0 Percentile：0.00(Geosciences, Multidisciplinary)To enable proper remediation of accidental groundwater contamination, the contaminant plume evolution needs to be accurately estimated. In the estimation, uncertainties in both the contaminant source and hydrogeological structure should be considered, especially the temporal release history and hydraulic transmissivity. Although the release history can be estimated using geostatistical approaches, previous studies use the deterministic hydraulic property field. Geostatistical approaches can also effectively estimate an unknown heterogeneous transmissivity field via the joint data use, such as a combination of hydraulic head and tracer data. However, tracer tests implemented over a contaminated area necessarily disturb the in situ condition of the contamination. Conversely, measurements of the transient concentration data over an area are possible and can preserve the conditions. Accordingly, this study develops a geostatistical method for the joint clarification of contaminant plume and transmissivity distributions using both head and contaminant concentration data. The applicability and effectiveness of the proposed method are demonstrated through two numerical experiments assuming a two-dimensional heterogenous confined aquifer. The use of contaminant concentration data is key to accurate estimation of the transmissivity. The accuracy of the proposed method using both head and concentration data was verified achieving a high linear correlation coefficient of 0.97 between the true and estimated concentrations for both experiments, which was 0.67 or more than the results using only the head data. Furthermore, the uncertainty of the contaminant plume evolution was successfully evaluated by considering the uncertainties of both the initial plume and the transmissivity distributions, based on their conditional realizations.
Takai, Shizuka; Shimada, Taro; Takeda, Seiji; Koike, Katsuaki*
Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 251, p.104097_1 - 104097_12, 2022/12
Times Cited Count：3 Percentile：23.69(Environmental Sciences)When assessing the risk from an underground environment that is contaminated by radioactive nuclides and hazardous chemicals and planning for remediation, the contaminant plume distribution and the associated uncertainty from measured data should be estimated accurately. While the release history of the contaminant plume may be unknown, the extent of the plume caused by a known source and the associated uncertainty can be calculated inversely from the concentration data using a geostatistical method that accounts for the temporal correlation of its release history and groundwater flow modeling. However, the preceding geostatistical approaches have three drawbacks: (1) no applications of the three-dimensional plume estimation in real situations, (2) no constraints for the estimation of the plume distribution, which can yield negative concentration and large uncertainties, and (3) few applications to actual cases with multiple contaminants. To address these problems, the non-negativity constraint using Gibbs sampling was incorporated into the geostatistical method with groundwater flow modeling for contaminant plume estimation. This method was then tested on groundwater contamination in the Gloucester landfill in Ontario, Canada. The method was applied to three water soluble organic contaminants: 1,4-dioxane, tetrahydrofuran, and diethyl ether. The effectiveness of the proposed method was verified by the general agreement of the calculated plume distributions of the three contaminants with concentration data from 66 points in 1982 (linear correlation coefficient of about 0.7). In particular, the reproduced large spill of organic contaminants of 1,4-dioxane in 1978 was more accurate than the result of preceding minimum relative entropy-based studies. The same peak also appeared in the tetrahydrofuran and diethyl ether distributions approximately within the range of the retardation factor derived from the fraction of organic carbon.
Wakui, Takashi; Yamasaki, Kazuhiko*; Futakawa, Masatoshi
Jikken Rikigaku, 22(2), p.96 - 104, 2022/06
Pulsed laser irradiation and indentation tests on radiation shielding glasses and a lead-free glass were carried out. The size of irradiation damage of the glass with high lead content was larger than that with low content. The micro plastic behavior of glasses was quantitatively determined using the inverse analyses based on indentation results. Flow stress decreased with an increase of lead content and that in irradiated area was lower than that in unirradiated area. On the other hand, plastic flow resistance increased with an increase of the lead content and that in irradiated area was higher than that in unirradiated area. Fracture energy and critical size of plastic zone around tip of crack in unirradiated and irradiated areas were calculated based on experimental results including constants evaluated using the inverse analysis. These values decreased with an increase of the lead content and these values in irradiated area were lower than that in unirradiated area.
Onoe, Hironori
Keisan Kogaku, 24(1), p.3851 - 3854, 2019/01
In this study, inverse analysis using observed data of pumping test was carried for confirmation of the applicability of inverse analysis method of groundwater flow based on in-situ data. Target of this inverse analysis was spatial distribution of hydrogeological heterogeneity of the fault. Inverse analysis had been applied to the area around the Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory, which is constructed by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency in order to construct scientific and technological basis for geological disposal of High-level Radioactive Waste. As a result of this study, the estimated results of inverse analysis are consistent with previous study result, and it was concluded that inverse analysis using hydraulic response due to pumping test is effective for hydrogeological characterization in deep underground.
Onoe, Hironori; Yamamoto, Shinya*; Kohashi, Akio; Ozaki, Yusuke; Sakurai, Hideyuki*; Masumoto, Kiyoshi*
JAEA-Research 2018-003, 84 Pages, 2018/06
JAEA-Research-2018-003.pdf:17.44MB
In this study, numerical experiments considered hydrogeological structures, which has high heterogeneity around the Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory and inverse analysis using in-situ data were carried out. The results showed that concentration of hydrogeological structure to be estimated and location of monitoring point is important for application of inverse analysis. Furthermore, it is concluded that inverse analysis using hydraulic response due to pumping test is effective for hydrogeological characterization.
Aoyagi, Kazuhei; Kamemura, Katsumi*; Nago, Makito*; Sugawara, Kentaro*; Matsubara, Makoto*
Proceedings of ITA-AITES World Tunnel Congress 2017 (WTC 2017) (USB Flash Drive), 10 Pages, 2017/06
An in situ stress state is one of the important factors in the design of deep underground facility of high-level radioactive waste disposal repository. This study establishes a practical and effective method for estimating in situ stress state on the basis of the measured convergence during gallery excavation. The convergence was measured in various directions of the loop gallery at 350m depth of the Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory; this allows determination of the stress state corresponding to the rock mass deformation behavior in an approximately 120 m* 200 m area. To estimate in situ stress state around that area, a back analysis method considering the existence of faults and fractures around the gallery was developed. The analyzed results showed a good agreement with the trend of in situ stress state estimated from hydraulic fracturing method.
Kohashi, Akio; Onoe, Hironori; Yamamoto, Shinya*; Honda, Makoto*; Sakurai, Hideyuki*; Masumoto, Kiyoshi*
JAEA-Research 2015-022, 89 Pages, 2016/03
JAEA-Research-2015-022.pdf:27.85MB
In Japan, high-level radioactive waste (HLW) will be emplaced in a stable host rock formation deeper than 300 meters underground for geological disposal. It is important to understand heterogeneous distribution of hydraulic conductivity from the viewpoints of the safety assessment of geological disposal of HLW and construction of underground facilities. Inverse analysis based on the transient data is an efficient technique for estimating the heterogeneous distribution. In this study, numerical experiments with the adjoint state method and the ensemble Kalman filter were carried out in order to understand effective method for application of these inverse analysis. As a result of this study, the capability of each analysis techniques was shown.
Naoe, Takashi*; Futakawa, Masatoshi; Naito, Akira*; Kogawa, Hiroyuki; Ikeda, Yujiro; Motohashi, Yoshinobu*
JSME International Journal, Series A, 48(4), p.280 - 285, 2005/10
Target vessel materials used in spallation neutron source will be exposed to proton and neutron irradiation and mercury immersion environments. In order to evaluate the surface degradation of the vessel candidate materials due to such environment, the triple-ion beam irradiation taking the spallation reaction into account and mercury immersion tests were carried out. Mechanical properties of the gradient surface layer ware evaluated by the inverse analysis with multi-layer model that considers distribution of surface characteristic was applied to the load and depth curves measured by using the instrumented indentation machine. Transmission electron microscopic observations ware performed to evaluate the changes of microstructure in irradiated surface layer using focused ion-beam cut micro-specimen. It was confirmed that the ductility loss is enhanced by the irradiation and mercury immersion, and simulated stress and strain curves of the ion-irradiated surface layer ware adequately in good agreement with the curves of experimental equivalent neutron-irradiated material.
Naoe, Takashi*; Futakawa, Masatoshi; Naito, Akira*; Ioka, Ikuo; Kogawa, Hiroyuki
Jikken Rikigaku, 5(1), p.15 - 21, 2005/03
no abstracts in English
Ioka, Ikuo; Futakawa, Masatoshi; Naito, Akira; Nanjo, Yoshiyasu*; Kiuchi, Kiyoshi; Naoe, Takashi*
Journal of Nuclear Materials, 329-333(Part2), p.1142 - 1146, 2004/08
Times Cited Count：0 Percentile：0.00(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)no abstracts in English
Futakawa, Masatoshi; Kubo, Shinji; Wakui, Takashi*; Onuki, Kaoru; Shimizu, Saburo; Yamaguchi, Akihisa*
Jikken Rikigaku, 3(2), p.109 - 114, 2003/06
Micro-indentation technique was applied to evaluate the mechanical properties of corroded surface layers of Ni-alloy, 316SS, Ti and Ta, which were exposed into the corrosive gaseous environment consisting of HI+I
+HO+H. The corrosion condition was chosen so as to simulate one of the environments in the thermochemical hydrogen production, IS process, where the degradation due to the corrosion attack by HI and the hydrogen embrittlement is a key issue from the viewpoint of material integrity. The micro-indentation tests using a spherical indenter and the inverse analysis with Kalman filter were performed to quantitatively estimate material constants of corroded surface layer. Ni-alloy exhibited good corrosion resistance and Ta was remarkably influenced by the hydrogen embrittlement.
Yamamoto, Junichiro*; Futakawa, Masatoshi; Kurata, Yuji; Naoe, Takashi*
Nihon Kikai Gakkai Kanto Shibu Ibaraki Koenkai (2002) Koen Rombunshu, p.1 - 2, 2002/09
no abstracts in English
Naoe, Takashi*; Futakawa, Masatoshi; Wakui, Takashi*; Kogawa, Hiroyuki
Nihon Kikai Gakkai Kanto Shibu Ibaraki Koenkai (2002) Koen Rombunshu, p.3 - 4, 2002/09
no abstracts in English
; Saegusa, Hiromitsu
JNC TY7400 2000-004, 62 Pages, 2000/05
JNC-TY7400-2000-004.pdf:1.45MB
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JNC TN9400 2000-021, 104 Pages, 2000/03
JNC-TN9400-2000-021.pdf:5.21MB
ln this report, research works performed in the Structura1 Safety Engineering Group of OEC/JNC are summarized as the final report of the doctoral fellowship. The main objective of this study is for the enhancement of the nondestructive evaluation techniques for structural components of both magnetic and nonmagnetic material. Studies in three topics have been carried out aiming at the quantitative evaluation of crack with the eddy current testing and the validation of a natural magnetic field based NDE method for detecting mechanical damages in a paramagnetic material. ln the first part of the study, an approach to the reconstruction of the natural crack was proposed and implemented with an idealized crack model for its validation. ln the second part, the correlation of the natural magnetization and the mechanical damages in the SUS304 stainless steel was investigated by using an experimental approach. ln part 3, an inverse method of the measured magnetic fields is proposed for the reconstruction of magnetic charges in the inspected material by using an optimization method and wavalet. As the first work, an approach to the reconstruction of an idealized natural crack of non-vanishing conductivity is proposed with use of signals of eddy current testing. Two numerical models are introduced at first for modeling the natural crack in order to represented it with a set of crack parameters. A method for the rapid prediction of the eddy current testing signals coming from these idealized cracks is given then by extending a knowledge based fast forward solver to the case of a non-vanishing conductivity. Based on this fast forward solver, the inverse algorithm of conjugate gradient method is updated to identify the crack parameters. Several examples are presented finally as a validation of the proposed strategy. The results show that both the two numerical models can give reasonable reconstruction results for signal of low noise. The model concerning the touch of ...
Ogawa, Hiromichi; Takebe, Shinichi;
JAERI-Research 94-002, 12 Pages, 1994/07
JAERI-Research-94-002.pdf:0.61MB
no abstracts in English
町田 昌彦
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JP, 2022-083279 Patent licensing information Patent publication (In Japanese)
【課題】数少ない測定結果から放射線源の分布を精度良く推定する。 【解決手段】線源推定装置1は、対象区域を分割して得られた複数の領域のそれぞれに存在すると仮定された放射線源を示す線源ベクトルωを作成する線源ベクトル作成部13と、測定点における測定値を示す線量ベクトルYを作成する線量ベクトル作成部15と、線源ベクトルωが示す放射線源の数と測定点の数とに対応する行列Xを計算する行列計算部16と、対象区域における放射線源の分布を推定する線源推定部17と、を備える。線源推定部17は、線源ベクトルωと行列Xとの積を線量ベクトルYの擬似ベクトルと見做し、線源ベクトルωをスパースベクトルとして、擬似ベクトルから線源ベクトルωを復元する逆解析を行うことにより、放射線源の分布を推定する。
Ozaki, Yusuke; Kohashi, Akio; Onoe, Hironori; Yamamoto, Shinya*; Sakurai, Hideyuki*; Masumoto, Kiyoshi*
no journal, ,
no abstracts in English
Wakui, Takashi; Saito, Shigeru; Wakai, Eiichi; Sakai, Tomoki*; Mori, Kotaro*; Futakawa, Masatoshi
no journal, ,
One of dominant factors to determine the lifetime of the mercury target in J-PARC is the radiation damage. Authors suggested the tensile properties evaluation technique from numerical tensile tests using material properties estimated from inverse analyses on indentation tests. The technique was applied to ion-irradiated materials, and the validity of the technique was investigated by comparing the result with results of the PIE on the targets of SNS. By conducting indentation tests on samples cut out from used targets, it is expected that the residual lifetime estimation can be conducted considering various effects; fatigue, temperature, LME, etc. superimposed on the radiation damage from evaluating hardness and tensile properties obtained by the technique. The technique and comparison results will be discussed.
