A non-linear elastic approach to study the effect of ambient humidity on sandstone
Bibliographic record
Abstract
We demonstrate that strong elastic pump wave pulses soften sandstone more in humidified conditions than they do in dry conditions and that this effect is repeatable and reversible. We assess these changes via the non-linear interactions of a strong pump wave with a weaker probe wave. We find that there is an exponential time constant (τ≈13days) associated with this process that is independent of the amplitudes of the pump and the probe, the phase delay between the two waves (the time between transmission of the pump and probe waves), the sampling rate, and whether the sample is being dried or humidified. We demonstrate that the humidity-dependent differences in the amount of softening are induced by only a very small amount of absorbed water vapor and argue that this water is intercalated within clay particles. We also show that our pump–probe experiments detect these humidity-dependent differences in the amount of softening easily and repeatably using an experimental design that does not rely on resonance conditions. This means that, in principle, our experiments could be more easily generalized to other experimental geometries to investigate non-linear elastic properties in complex or irregular sample geometries. Our method and findings have potential relevance in oil and gas exploration, civil engineering, and understanding of the mechanism of earthquakes.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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