Based on our previous work on acoustic resonance spectroscopy (ARS) measurement, the ARSs in low frequency modes were measured for 10 synthetic oil-saturated rock samples with the porosities rang-ing from 22% to 30%, and the effects of porosity on ARS of the synthetic porous rock samples in a cylindrical resonant cavity were studied. The experimental results show that as the location of a syn-thetic rock sample changes from the top to the middle of the resonant cavity, the resonance frequency (RF) will gradually increase and the corresponding resonance amplitude (RA) will decrease. In the middle of the cavity, the RF reaches its maximum, while the RA reaches its minimum. When the syn-thetic rock porosity increases, the RF will decrease and the RA will decrease. Furthermore, the RF of a synthetic rock sample was numerically calculated with an average volume model in the resonant cavity. Our numerical results show that as the location of the sample changes from the top to the middle of the cavity, the RF gradually increases and the RF reaches its maximum value in the middle of the cavity. However, the RF decreases as the porosity of the sample increases in the middle of the cavity. The porosity effects on the ARS described above were confirmed by our experimental result as well as the theoretical analyses, which is important for porosity and fracture characterizations in a rock sample using the ARS in a low frequency mode.
A measurement system for acoustic resonant spectroscopy (ARS) is estab-lished,and the effects of resonant cavity geometry,inner perturbation samples and envi-ronmental temperature on the ARS are investigated. The ARSs of the small samples with various sizes and acoustic properties are measured. The results show that at the normal pressure,the resonant frequency decreases gradually with the increase of liquid tem-perature in the cylindrical cavity,while the resonant amplitude increases. At certain pres-sure and temperature,both the resonant frequency and the amplitude decrease greatly when there exist air bubbles inside the cavity fluid. The ARS is apparently affected by the sample porosity and the sample location in the resonant cavity. At the middle of the cavity,the resonant frequencies reach their maximum values for all of the measurement samples. The resonant frequencies of the porous rock samples are smaller than those of the com-pacted samples if other acoustic parameters are the same. As the sample is moved from the top to the middle of the cavity along its axis,the resonant amplitude increases gradu-ally for the compacted rocks while decreases for the unconsolidated rocks. Furthermore,the resonant amplitude increases firstly and then decreases if the porosity of the rock sample is relatively small. In addition,through the comparisons between the experimental and theoretical results,it is found that the effects of the acoustic parameters and sizes of the samples and the size of the cylindrical cavity on the laboratory results agree well with the theoretical ones qualitatively. These results may provide basic reference for the ex-periment study of rock acoustic properties in a low frequency using ARS.
CHEN Dehua1,2,WANG Xiuming2,3,CONG Jiansheng1,XU Delong1,SONG Yanjie1 & MA Shuilong4 1. Department of Geophysics,Daqing Petroleum Institute,Daqing 163318,China
