Identification

Data Identification:

citation:

Citation:

Title:

Triaxial compressive strength tests on 'Comiso' Limestone (Ragusa Formation; Sicily, Italy) samples

Date:

CI_Date:

Date Type:

creation

date:

2023-09-19

Identifier:

RS_Identifier:

code:

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608119

Abstract:

This dataset contains raw experimental triaxial testing data as outlined in "Castagna, A., Ougier‐Simonin, A., Benson, P. M., Browning, J., Walker, R. J., Fazio, M., & Vinciguerra, S. (2018). Thermal damage and pore pressure effects of the Brittle‐Ductile transition in Comiso limestone. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123(9), 7644-7660.s, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2017JB015105". The data is provided in a .zip folder containing the files of 16 experiments that are accompanied by a README file for introduction. Files format is Microsoft Excel Worksheet (.xlsx) and data are tabulated. Each file contains the corresponding relevant sample’s details, and each column of data is clearly labelled, units included. For each experiment, time, radial and axial pumps volume displacements and pressures, top and bottom pore fluid pumps volume displacements and pressures, internal temperature, LVDT signals were recorded. Twenty right cylindrical samples of ‘Comiso’ limestone (Ragusa Formation; Sicily) were tested in triaxial compression at a range of confining pressures simulating depths of 290 m, 620 m, 1.2 km, and 2.0 km respectively, assuming an average density of the over-burden load of 2470 kg/m3. Prior to strength test, each sample was either oven dried (ca. 12 hours at 85 °C followed by cooling in a desiccator for 1 hour) or water saturated (samples in distilled water under vacuum for 24 hours). A subset of these samples has also been thermally treated at 150, 300, 450 and 600oC to induce thermal cracking prior to the mechanical testing. All tests were conducted at 10-5 s-1 axial strain rate in assumed drained conditions when relevant, and at room temperature. For saturated tests, the initial loading was applied in two steps, first by increasing Pc hydrostatically (σ1=σ2=σ3) until the desired confining pressure was reached, and then introducing pore fluid pressure, as per the functionality of the experimental set-up. The experiments were conducted by Drs A. Castagna, M. Fazio and P. Benson using the Snachez triaxial cell at the Rock Mechanics Laboratory of the University of Portsmouth. All responsible for the collection and initial interpretation of the data. Only 17 experiments are reported in this set of data; the missing 3 datasets are believed to be only available on the local computer storage of the triaxial apparatus used at that time.

Point of Contact:

Responsible Party:

Individual Name:

Philip Benson

Organisation Name:

University of Portsmouth

Position Name:

School of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Contact Info:

CI_Contact:

Address:

Delivery Point:

Burnaby Building

city:

Portsmouth

Postal Code:

PO1 3QL

e-mail:

not available

role:

originator

Responsible Party:

Individual Name:

Angela Castagna

Organisation Name:

University of Leicester

Contact Info:

CI_Contact:

Address:

e-mail:

not available

role:

originator

Responsible Party:

Individual Name:

Richard Walker

Organisation Name:

University of Leicester

Contact Info:

CI_Contact:

Address:

e-mail:

not available

role:

originator

Responsible Party:

Individual Name:

Sergio Vinciguerra

Organisation Name:

University of Leicester

Contact Info:

CI_Contact:

Address:

e-mail:

not available

role:

originator

Responsible Party:

Individual Name:

Marco Fazio

Organisation Name:

University of Portsmouth

Contact Info:

CI_Contact:

Address:

e-mail:

not available

role:

originator

Responsible Party:

Individual Name:

Enquiries

Organisation Name:

British Geological Survey

Contact Info:

CI_Contact:

phone:

CI_Telephone:

voice:

0115 936 3143

facsimile:

0115 936 3276

Address:

Delivery Point:

Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth

city:

NOTTINGHAM

administrative Area:

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

Postal Code:

NG12 5GG

country:

United Kingdom

e-mail:

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

role:

distributor

Responsible Party:

Individual Name:

Enquiries

Organisation Name:

British Geological Survey

Contact Info:

CI_Contact:

phone:

CI_Telephone:

voice:

0115 936 3143

facsimile:

0115 936 3276

Address:

Delivery Point:

Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth

city:

NOTTINGHAM

administrative Area:

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

Postal Code:

NG12 5GG

country:

United Kingdom

e-mail:

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

role:

originator

Responsible Party:

Individual Name:

Enquiries

Organisation Name:

British Geological Survey

Contact Info:

CI_Contact:

Address:

e-mail:

not available

role:

distributor

Responsible Party:

Individual Name:

Enquiries

Organisation Name:

British Geological Survey

Contact Info:

CI_Contact:

Address:

e-mail:

not available

role:

pointOfContact

Resource Maintenance:

MD_MaintenanceInformation:

maint. / update frequency:

notApplicable

Graphic overview:

Browse Graphic:

File Name:

https://resources.bgs.ac.uk/images/geonetworkThumbs/08a0f1e6-2053-2610-e063-0937940a19a4.png

Descriptive Keywords:

Keywords:

keyword:

http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept?cp=13&langcode=en&ns=5

keyword:

Geology

Thesaurus Name:

Citation:

Title:

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Date:

CI_Date:

date:

2008-06-01

Date Type:

publication

Keywords:

keyword:

Strain

keyword:

Compression tests

keyword:

Pore pressure

keyword:

Brittle deformation

keyword:

Sedimentary rocks

keyword:

NGDC Deposited Data

keyword:

Water

keyword:

Deformation (materials)

keyword:

Elastic theory

keyword:

Bulk sampling

keyword:

Carbonate rocks

keyword:

Limestone

Thesaurus Name:

Citation:

Title:

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

Date:

CI_Date:

date:

2022

Date Type:

revision

Keywords:

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keyword:

NGDC Deposited Data

Type:

dataCentre

Keywords:

keyword:

NERC_DDC

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Access Constraints:

otherRestrictions

Other Constraints:

licenceOGL

Other Constraints:

http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/metadata-codelist/LimitationsOnPublicAccess/noLimitations

Other Constraints:

Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

MD_LegalConstraints:

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The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.

Other Constraints:

Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

language:

eng

topicCategory:

geoscientificInformation

Distribution

Distribution:

Distribution Format:

Format:

Format Name:

MS Excel

Distributor:

Distributor Contact:

Responsible Party:

Individual Name:

Enquiries

Organisation Name:

British Geological Survey

Contact Info:

CI_Contact:

phone:

CI_Telephone:

voice:

0115 936 3143

facsimile:

0115 936 3276

Address:

Delivery Point:

Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth

city:

NOTTINGHAM

administrative Area:

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

Postal Code:

NG12 5GG

country:

United Kingdom

e-mail:

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

role:

distributor

Distributor:

Distributor Contact:

Responsible Party:

Individual Name:

Enquiries

Organisation Name:

British Geological Survey

Contact Info:

CI_Contact:

Address:

e-mail:

not available

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distributor

Transfer Options:

Digital Transfer Options:

onLine:

CI_OnlineResource:

linkage:

https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item182315

name:

Data

function:

download

Digital Transfer Options:

onLine:

CI_OnlineResource:

linkage:

https://doi.org/10.5285/e331aaf6-84cb-4b6e-9fa6-166bd90a42f0

name:

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

function:

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Data Quality

Data Quality:

Scope:

DQ_Scope:

level:

nonGeographicDataset

Level Description:

MD_ScopeDescription:

other:

non geographic dataset

Report:

Domain Consistency:

Result:

Conformance Result:

specification:

Citation:

Title:

INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology

Date:

CI_Date:

Date Type:

publication

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2011

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pass:

Domain Consistency:

Result:

Conformance Result:

specification:

Citation:

Title:

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date:

CI_Date:

Date Type:

publication

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2010-12-08

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See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

pass:

Lineage:

LI_Lineage:

statement:

Twenty right cylindrical samples of ‘Comiso’ limestone (Ragusa Formation; Sicily) were tested in triaxial compression at a range of confining pressures simulating depths of 290 m, 620 m, 1.2 km, and 2.0 km respectively, assuming an average density of the over-burden load of 2470 kg/m3. Prior to strength test, each sample was either oven dried (ca. 12 hours at 85 °C followed by cooling in a desiccator for 1 hour) or water saturated (samples in distilled water under vacuum for 24 hours). A subset of these samples has also been thermally treated at 150, 300, 450 and 600oC to induce thermal cracking prior to the mechanical testing. All tests were conducted at 10-5 s-1 axial strain rate in assumed drained conditions when relevant, and at room temperature. For saturated tests, the initial loading was applied in two steps, first by increasing Pc hydrostatically (σ1=σ2=σ3) until the desired confining pressure was reached, and then introducing pore fluid pressure, as per the functionality of the experimental set-up. The experiments were conducted by Drs A. Castagna, M. Fazio and P. Benson using the Snachez triaxial cell at the Rock Mechanics Laboratory of the University of Portsmouth. All responsible for the collection and initial interpretation of the data. Only 17 experiments are reported in this set of data; the missing 3 datasets are believed to be only available on the local computer storage of the triaxial apparatus used at that time. The datasets presented are the logging files as created between the 24th of February and 23rd of June 2016 with initial interpretations from Dr A. Castagna.

Metadata

File Identifier:

08a0f1e6-2053-2610-e063-0937940a19a4

language:

eng

Resource type:

nonGeographicDataset

Hierarchy Level Name:

non geographic dataset

Metadata Contact:

Responsible Party:

Organisation Name:

British Geological Survey

Contact Info:

CI_Contact:

phone:

CI_Telephone:

voice:

+44 115 936 3100

Address:

Delivery Point:

Environmental Science Centre, Keyworth

city:

NOTTINGHAM

administrative Area:

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

Postal Code:

NG12 5GG

country:

United Kingdom

e-mail:

enquiries@bgs.ac.uk

role:

pointOfContact

Date Stamp:

2024-04-24

Metadata Standard Name:

http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/M25/current/GEMINI/

Metadata Standard Name:

UK GEMINI

Metadata Standard Version:

2.3

Dataset URI:

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608119