STUDY OF THE RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF CLAYS USING THE PROBLEM 
ON SHRINKAGE OF A CLAY LAYER AS AN EXAMPLE

N. E. Galiullina and M. G. Khramchenkov

UDC 552.52,624.131.54

The rheological properties of water-saturated clays have 
been studied based on the model described in [1, 2]. The problem on 
shrinkage of a clay layer under strain has been reduced to the well-known 
problem of N. N. Verigin. The numerical solution of the problem on 
squeezing of water from a clay layer has been found and analyzed. 
The distinctive features of the model, which are important for explanation 
of certain characteristic features of the rheology of clays, have 
been investigated. It has been shown that the solutions obtained are 
in qualitative agreement with experimental results.

1. M. G. Khramchenkov, Elements of the Physico-Chemical 
   Mechanics of Natural Porous Media [in Russian], Izd. Kazansk. Mat. 
   Obshch., Kazan' (2003).
2. M. G. Khramchenkov, Mathematical modeling of rheological 
   properties of clays and clay rocks, Inzh.-Fiz. Zh., 76, 
   No. 3, 159-164 (2003).

Kazan' State University, 17 Universitetskaya Str., Kazan', 
420008, Russia; email: Maxim.Khramchenkov@ksu.ru. Translated from 
Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 79, No. 1, pp. 110-113, January-February, 
2006. Original article submitted July 30, 2004; revision submitted 
October 27, 2004.