Evaluating rock mass failure in the vicinity of slot cuts

A comparative analysis of the failure of rock with surfaces of weakness in the vicinity of elongated clot cuts of rectangular cross section was performed using the boundary integral equation method and the Mohr-Kuznetsov strength criterion. The rock failure coefficient was used as the criterion of breaking. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 129–133, January–February, 2008.     

Zonal fracturing mechanism in deep crack-weakened rock masses

The mechanical behaviors of deep crack-weakened rock masses are different from those of shallow crack-weakened rock masses. The surrounding rock in shallow crack-weakened rock mass engineering is classified into loose zone, plastic zone and elastic zone, while the surrounding rock in deep crack-weakened rock mass engineering is classified into fractured zone and non-fractured zone, which occur alternatively. It is assumed that the deep rock masses contain one joint set, in which the probability density function describing the distribution of sizes is assumed to follow the Rayleigh distribution, and the probability density function describing the distribution of spacing is assumed to follow the Weibull distribution. On the basis of strength criterion of deep rock mass, the near-field stress redistribution around circular opening induced by excavation is determined. The strong interaction among cracks is investigated by using the dislocation model. The nucleation, growth, interaction and coalescence of cracks were analyzed based on the strain energy density factor theory. When cracks coalesce, failure of deep crack-weakened rock masses occurs, fractured zone is formed. Then, size and quantity of fractured zone and non-fractured zone are given out. The size and quantity of fractured zone increase with decreasing strength of rock mass. The size and quantity of fractured zone increase with increasing in situ stress. Zonal fracturing phenomenon occurs once value of in situ stress is larger than the unaxial compressive strength of rock masses. The size and quantity of fractured zone decrease with increasing λ when p₂ > p₁. The size and quantity of fractured zone increase with increasing λ when p₂ < p₁.     

大理岩试样循环加载强化作用的试验研究

利用不同晶粒大理岩块加工成完整和含孔道的圆柱试样,在伺服实验机上分别进行单轴和常规三轴循环加载试验,其中三轴循环加载包括维持围压恒定和卸载围压两种情况.结果表明,循环加载确实可使试样的强度增加,强度大致提高5%-10%.岩石的材料强度和承载能力是两个不同的概念.大理岩晶粒之间多为裂隙,轴向压缩加载时晶粒局部接触应力远高于名义应力,在岩样未达到峰值应力之前,接触处已经产生很大的变形乃至出现局部破坏,形成的碎屑在卸载时可以脱落充填到附近的空隙,提高岩样承载能力.这种强化特征是与摩擦相关的承载能力,并非材料强度;与多次循环加载造成材料强度逐步劣化不同.从卸载点附近卸载与再加载应力应变曲线的关系,可以确认卸载是否引起岩石承载能力的增加.     

Energy consumption for creep fracture of metallic materials

The energy conservation law is applied to formulate the ductile and brittle creep fracture criterion for metallic materials. The criterion contains a summary of heat and latent energies. Assuming that the heat energy is given out so it has no effect on the fracture process, the ductile creep fracture criterion is simplified. To take into account the evaluation of the damage state of materials the compressibility condition is introduced and the brittle creep fracture law is formulated.     

岩石变形演化诱致灾变破坏过程的同步实验观测

将试样变形场演化特征与试样的宏观载荷位移曲线的演化特征结合起来研究是揭示非均匀脆性介质变形演化诱致灾变破坏的一个重要途径.本文发展了一套实验系统,通过对试样表面变形场的演化、宏观载荷和位移信号的同步观测,对单轴加载下岩石试样变形演化和灾变破坏的过程进行了实验研究.揭示了试样变形场由加载初期的随机涨落到灾变破坏前出现明显的变形局部化的演化特征现象,试样最终在变形局部化区内形成宏观破裂面.     

THE CONSTITUTIVE RELATION OF CRACK-WEAKENED ROCK MASSES UNDER AXIAL-DIMENSIONAL UNLOADING

An accurate and efficient numerical method for solving the crack-crack interaction problem is presented. The method is mainly by means of the dislocation model, stress superposition principle and Chebyshev polynomial expansion of the pseudo-traction. This method can be applied to compute the stress intensity factors of multiple kinked cracks and multiple rows of periodic cracks as well as the overall strains of rock masses containing multiple kinked cracks under complex loads. Many complex computational examples are given. The dependence of the crack-crack interaction on the crack configuration, the geometrical and physical parameters, and loads pattern, is investigated. By comparison with numerical results under confining pressure unloading, it is shown that the crack-crack interaction under axial-dimensional unloading is weaker than those under confining pressure unloading. Numerical results for single faults and crossed faults show that the single faults are more unstable than the crossed faults. It is found from numerical results for different crack lengths and different crack spacing that the interaction among kinked cracks decreases with an increase in length of the kinked cracks and the crack spacing under axial-dimensional unloading.     

ROCKBURSTING CHARACTERISTICS AND STRUCTURAL EFFECTS OF ROCK MASS

This paper is concerned with the rockbursting characteristics and the structural effectsof the rock masses in the diversion tunnel of Tianshengqiao Hydropower Station. The control-ling effect of rock mass structure on the occurrence and intensity of the rockburst is demon-strated. At the same time the theory of rock mass structural effect on rockbursting has beenadvanced with rock mechanical tests carried out by the author. It laid the foundation of thecorrect selection of the underground project sites where occurs no rockburst, and it also laidthe foundation of adjusting the tunnel axes to reduce the rockburst intensity and predictingthe rockburst under the construction of underground projects.     

A fracture damage model for Jointed rock masses and its application to the stability analysis of dam abutments

Based on continuum damage mechanics, for jointed rock masses, a fracture damage model is presented in this paper. First, the damage tensors are defined through the elastic-flexibility of intact rock and the equivalent elastic-damage flexibility for rock mass. Then, by the self-consistent principle of solid mechanics, the equivalent elastic-damage flexibility tensors involving the interaction between multicracks are deduced. The damage evolution law is proposed involving the mechanism of crack propagation process: frictional sliding, crack kinking, growing of branched tension cracks, interlinking of the microcracks near branched crack tips leading to the breakthrough of macro-cracks and finally the failure of rock mass. Thus the evolution of damage variables reasonably unified with the process of crack propagation is given. Finally, a plastic-brittle damage constitutive relation including brittle coupled strain rate, developed and applied to the stability analysis of complicated rock foundation of a dam in China, is described in this paper.     

Simulation of spallation in brittle solids

A new model of dynamic fracture for brittle materials based on Perzyna's[1] idea and Seaman's experimental results[2] is developed. Numerical simulations of metal uranium[3] spalling process in its impact tests are carried out with the model. Fair agreement between the computation and experimental data has been obtained.     

聚能药包爆炸切割原理及其试验研究

本文将聚能装药结构的爆炸聚能原理应用于石材矿山的切割开采之中,首先分析了聚能药包爆炸作用对石材的切割原理,其中,着重研究了炮孔壁上的聚能开裂和裂缝扩展以及贯通的物理过程,推导了裂缝形成过程中各个阶段的力学条件;然后,将聚能切割原理应用于大理石的切割爆破之中,并对现场切割爆破效果和影响聚能效应的因素进行了分析讨论,试验研究表明,文中所得的结论与现场试验的结果相吻合。