AE Characterization of Cracking Mode in Sandstone Uniaxial and Brazilian Tests

Abstract:

Laboratory results from sandstone Brazilian splitting tests and uniaxial compression tests based on acoustic emission (AE) monitoring indicated that the acoustic emission parameters analysis method can be applied to analyse the characteristics of acoustic emission and to classify the crack modes in rock materials. It concluded that more than 99 per cent of the whole cracking signals in Brazilian tests were classified as tensile mode, and no shear cracks occurred. And more than 65 per cent of the AE signals in uniaxial tests were tensile-shear crack mode, along with about 30 percent of tensile mode and 5 percent of shear mode, and shear cracks only occurred in the unstable crack extension stages; tensile-shear cracks are the main crack modes in the crack stable extension stage.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 910)
• Pages: 35-39
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.910.35
• Online since: March 2014
• Authors: Xiao Hu Zhang*, De Chao Liu, Xiao Long Ren
• Keywords: Acoustic Emission (AE), Brazilian Test, Crack Propagation, Frequency, Sandstone

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