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Fatigue Damage of Wellbore Cement Sheath in Gas Storage Salt Cavern Under Alternating Internal Pressure

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This paper investigates the fatigue damage of the wellbore cement sheath under different cyclic loading conditions. According to the irreversible principle of thermodynamics, a damage evolution model considering both tension and compression fatigue damage is established. With acoustic emission monitoring, uniaxial compression and Brazilian disc splitting cyclic loading failure tests were performed. Based on the test results, the damage theory is verified using the cumulative strain, Young’s modulus and acoustic emission characteristics. The research gives a numerical algorithm of the fatigue damage theory to develop as a constitutive equation. With reference to the structural and operating parameters of a gas storage salt cavern in Jintan, a casing-cement sheath-stratum numerical model is established. By inserting the damage constitutive equation into the numerical model calculation, the damage characteristics of the cement sheath are shown. Finally, the gas storage operating parameters that meet the requirements of high injection-production efficiency and long service life are given.

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The authors wish to acknowledge the financial supports of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 42072307) and Foundation for Innovative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51621006).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, China

    Tao He & Tongtao Wang

  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Tao He

  3. Jiangsu Gas Storage Company, PetroChina, Zhenjiang, 212004, Jiangsu, China

    Baodong Shan & Guoyin An

  4. State Key Laboratory of Coal Mine Disaster and Control, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, China

    Jie Yang

  5. Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 89557, USA

    J. J. K. Daemen

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He, T., Wang, T., Shan, B. et al. Fatigue Damage of Wellbore Cement Sheath in Gas Storage Salt Cavern Under Alternating Internal Pressure. Rock Mech Rock Eng 55, 715–732 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-021-02686-7

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