Paper Title:

Research on the Fracture Mechanism of Coal with Three Collinear Cracks Filling with Gas

Periodical Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 142)
Main Theme Intelligent Materials, Applied Mechanics and Design Science
Edited by Helen Zhang and David Jin
Pages 201-204
DOI 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.142.201
Citation Wen Cheng Jin et al., 2011, Applied Mechanics and Materials, 142, 201
Online since November, 2011
Authors Wen Cheng Jin, Zhe Ming Zhu, Zhe Yuan Hu
Keywords Boundary Collocation Method, Collinear Crack, Complex Function, Stress Intensity Factor (SIF)
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Abstract

Coal usually contains many cracks which affect the stability of mining zone. In order to research the fracture mechanism of cracked coal, a special case of three collinear cracks filling with gas is considered. A set of complex stress functions which satisfy all the required conditions are first derived, based on Muskelishvili’s results. The least square boundary collocation method is used to enforce the external boundaries approximately, and the stress intensity factors (SIF) can then be computed according to the related formulae. The value of SIFs for different crack orientations, different crack distance under different loading are calculated. The results shows that the most unfavorable crack orientation is in the 45° angle and the confining stress and the distance between cracks have a considerable effect on the SIF value.