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Influence Mechanism of High Temperature on Drilling Rate and Hardness of Sandstone

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The change characteristic of drillability and hardness of a rock under different thermal situations is a fundamental problem that must be clarified in deep engineering. In order to study the effect of high temperature on the drilling rate and hardness of a rock, the micro-drilling, indentation hardness and Leeb hardness tests were carried out on the sandstone samples that were preheated to different temperatures. The microstructure of the samples was observed by scanning electron microscope (SEM) to reveal the physical essence of changes in drilling rate and hardness. The results showed that the drilling rate increases gradually with temperature increase. The fastest increase rate was between 300 °C and 500 °C, and the increase rate was lower when the temperature exceeded 500 °C. The indentation hardness and Leeb hardness both had a decrease and then an increase with the increase in temperature, and the inflection point was around 700 °C. According to SEM images, the changes in drilling rate and hardness of samples treated below 700 °C were induced by the development and expansion of cracks (mainly intergranular cracks), which is a quantitative change process. The change in drilling rate and hardness above 700 ℃ was controlled by melting, which became a qualitative change process. The samples’ drilling rate, indentation hardness and Leeb hardness showed excellent linear correlations with their P-wave velocity and linear or local linear relationships with uniaxial compressive strength (UCS).

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Acknowledgments

This study is funded by “the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (Grant No. BK20180662),” “the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41807233),” the Graduate Research and Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province (SJCX21-1043) and the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions.

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  1. Institute of Mine Water Hazards Prevention and Controlling Technology, School of Resources and Geosciences, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, 221116, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China

    Weiqiang Zhang, Zuoquan Wang, Zhoujian Shi, Peng Xu & Zhiwei Chang

  2. State Key Laboratory for Geomechanics and Deep Underground Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, 221116, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China

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Zhang, W., Wang, Z., Shi, Z. et al. Influence Mechanism of High Temperature on Drilling Rate and Hardness of Sandstone. Nat Resour Res 31, 2589–2601 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11053-022-10076-1

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