Papers by Keyword: Peak Strength

Abstract: Mechanical behavior and failure mode of jointed rock is one of the significant researches in rock mechanics field. In this work, combined with similar material testing and discrete element numerical method(PFC) to investigate the mechanical behavior and failure mode of the rock-like materials with multi-fissures. The numerical analyses agree well with physical experimentation. It is found that, fissures will weaken the strength of the rock-like material, and when the angle of the fissures is about 25°, the strength of the material reaches a minimum value. The weakening effect of fissure on specimen strength would decrease gradually along with the increase of fissure angle. Compared with the effects of fissure angle, the influence of cracks number to the strength is relatively small. The fissure inclination angle was the main factor of the failure modes. With the different fissure inclination angles, the crack tip of Micro-cracks presents different developmental pattern. However, the influence of fissure distribution density on the failure mode mainly reflects at the fracture penetration mode.

Abstract: Through the conventional triaxial test about plain reactive powder concrete under different confining pressures at 0Mpa, 25 Mpa,50 Mpa and 75 Mpa, this paper obtained the stress-strain curves in axial direction and radial direction of plain reactive powder concrete under different confining pressures, compared and analyzed the effects of confining pressures on peak strength, peak strain, Elastic modulus, Poisson ratio and failure modes of plain reactive power concrete also. The results showed that peak strength increases with the increase of confining pressure, when confining pressure increases from 0Mpa to 25Mpa, the peak strength increases most rapidly. The results also showed that peak strain increases linearly with the increase of confining pressure, when confining pressure increase from 0Mpa to 75Mpa gradually, the peak strain increases from 0.2 percent to 0.93 percent, meanwhile Poisson ratio increase with the increase of confining pressures, yet Elastic modulus changes slight at different confining pressures, failure modes of plain reactive powder concrete at different confining pressures exhibit different modes, when confining pressure is 0Mpa, failure mode presents as splitting failure, shear failure mode at 25Mpa, while shear failure merge local crushing at 50MPa and 75MPa.

Abstract: In this paper pre-cracked rock is used to study the strength affect by the coal rock internal fissures, through uniaxial compression tests to observe the different perspectives cracks on rock strength by using the precast specimens. The experimental results show that: the strength of specimens with crack angle increases, decreases and then increases, till reaches a maximum at 90°. Based on the force divided, destruction of different angles of prefabricated crack growth path can be divided into: shear failure, tensile failure and tensile shear composite damage.

Abstract: Fractured rock mass is one of the most important engineering materials for civil engineering in rock mass and rock layer, and has special failure model and constitutive relationship different from other man-made materials. A new numerical model is introduced and applied in studying the deformation, strength, and the failure mode of fractured rock mass, with the consideration of the damaged plasticity theory for intact rock, and joints distribution in fractured rock mass. A series of numerical experiments on jointed rock mass samples are performed to verify the validity of the new numerical model for fractured rock sample. Some feature datum from lab experiment is used to compare the results from numerical tests by the new model. According to these results, the initiation and propagation of induced fracture, and the failure mode of the fractured rock mass samples, are agreed with their associated feature datum by lab experiments.

Abstract: Uniaxial compression and acoustic emission experiments of calcareous mudstone with different water content were carried out by using microcomputer controlled electro-hydraulic servo compression testing machine control system of YAW series equipped by coal-rock acoustic and electric data acquisition system of CTA-1-type. Mchanical properties and acoustic emission law of calcareous mudstone were studied. It is concluded from experiment result that rock’s elastic modulus and compressive strength both decrease with increase water content but peak stress shows the opposite trend. It is also found that calcareous mudstone is brittleness with low water content but when water content reaches saturation, calcareous mudstone presents plastic features. Acoustic emission curve fits well with stress-strain curve: acoustic emission activity begins intensifying when stress reaches 70% of peak stress, correspondingly, acoustic emission is up to maximum at peak stress. Based on Weibull hypothesis and acoustic emission experiment, damage law of water bearing calcareous mudstone is researched and damage evolution equation with time variable is advanced.

Abstract: In this paper, failure behavior of basalt specimen containing 3D-flaw with different angles is investigated under triaxial compression. The process of crack growth was observed by computerized comography (CT). Based on the experimental results, the following conclusions were obtained: Under 3D loading condition, the angle of pre-existing flaw has a dominating influence on the zone of stress concentration. When the flaw angle is parallel to the direction of vertical loading, the failure peak strength is greater than that of sample containing other flaw angle, and the final failure mode is irregular. When the pre-existing flaw angle is about 60 degree with horizontal loading direction, stress concentration is easy to form at the tip of pre-existing flaw, and lead many small radicalized cracks to propagate. Under 3D loading condition, the cracking surface generally is distorted and lead crack to propagate in irregular direction, and then form irregular space failure with mixed mode. The experimental results observed here has shown that the experimental system and method in this study is efficient and robust.

Abstract: More and more engineering practice indicates rock mass is prone to lose its stability through crack coalescence under dynamic loading, such as blasting and earthquake. However, the crack coalescence pattern of rock specimens containing two or more flaws has not been studied comprehensively under dynamic loading. In this paper, the mechanism of the crack coalescence and peak strength of sandstone-like materials containing two parallel flaws are studied under uniaxial static and dynamic loading with strain rates 1.7×10-5 s-1 and 1.7×10-1 s-1. Through the comparisons of the propagation length, coalescence pattern of the cracks and strength increase of the pre-cracked specimens under static and dynamic loading, the dynamic response of the crack coalescence is found different from static loading under different geometric setting of the flaws. The inertia effect of the crack propagation is revealed under dynamic loading, that is to say, the growth of the secondary cracks tends to the original propagation direction, and the direct and immediate coalescence is taken place easily between two pre-existing flaws, which is different from the kinking coalescence under static loading. So, the inertia effect of the crack propagation is regarded as the main cause of the strength increase of the brittle material under dynamic loading for medium strain rates. In virtue of the explanation, another cause of the mode II shear fracture occurred under earthquake is opened out.