A New Method to Determining the Strength Parameters of Fractured Rock Mass

Abstract:

A Hydropower Station is located in the middle reach of the Dadu River in southwest China. The natural slope angles are generally 40°~65° and the relative elevation drop is more than 600m. Complex different fractures such as faults, dykes and dense fracture zones due to unloading are developed. Many abutment slopes were formed during construction of the abutments. The stability of these steep and high slopes during construction and operation period plays an important role for the safe construction and operation of the hydropower station. According to the statistical distribution of joints and fractures at the construction site, the slope is divided into a number of engineering geological zones. For each zone, a stochastic fracture network and a numerical model which is close to the real state of the fractured rock mass are established by the Monte-Carlo method. The mechanical response of fractured rock masses with different sizes of numerical models is studied using FLAC3D. The REV characteristic scale is identified for rock masses in the slopes with stochastic fracture network. Numerical simulation is performed to obtain the stress-strain curve, the mechanical parameters and the strength of the jointed rock mass in the zone. A constitutive relationship reflecting the mechanical response of the jointed rock mass in the zone is established. The Comparison between the traditional method and the method in this paper has been made at the end.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 898)
• Pages: 378-382
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.898.378
• Online since: February 2014
• Authors: Yun Hua Guo*, Wei Shen Zhu
• Keywords: Damage Fracture Model, Representative Elementary Volume, Slope Stablility Analysis, Stochastic Mechanics

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