Experimental analysis and characterization of damage evolution in rock under cyclic loading
Experimental analysis and characterization of damage evolution in rock under cyclic loading
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循环荷载下岩石损伤演化的实验分析与表征
DOI:
10.1016/j.ijrmms.2016.07.015
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发表时间:
2016-10-01
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7.2
通讯作者:
Zhang, Qian
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作者:
Song, Haipeng;Zhang, Hao;Zhang, Qian
In many rock engineering fields such as underground excavation, rock slope and mining activities, rock materials often experience cyclic loading. Due to the intrinsic micro-structure of rocks, the mechanical properties and the failure process under repeated stress differ enormously from those under static loads. 1, 2, 3 Thus, the study of the damage evolution of rocks that approach failure when subjected to cyclic loading is significant because such a study can help to better understand the damage and failure mechanism of rocks for practical engineering problems. In the past decades, some theoretical work on rock damage and failure under complex loading has been developed. Xie et al. discussed the relationship among energy dissipation, energy release and strength during failure process of rock under cyclic loading. 4 Based on micromechanics, the effective properties of brittle solids with numerous interacting microcracks have been predicted. 5 An inverted S-shaped nonlinear fatigue damage cumulative model was derived based on the law of axial irreversible deformation development of rock. 6 Many experimental cyclic loading tests have also been conducted to investigate the mechanical behavior of rocks. Macro tests clearly demonstrated that cyclic loading leads to the progressive weakening of rocks 7, 8 and showed that the uniaxial compressive strength weakens with the increase in the applied stress level and the number of loading cycles. 9 The effects of loading frequency and confining pressure conditions on the strength and deformation characteristics of sandstone sample subjected to cycling loading were also experimental analysed. 10, 11 In addition, different types of experimental techniques, such as optics and acoustics, were used to observe the failure process of rock materials during loading. For example, fluorescent microscopy was used to observe the initiation and propagation of new microcracks in bohus granite under cyclic loading. 12 Damage to marble induced by large strains accumulated during cyclic loading was recorded using the interferometric technique. 13 Transmitted ultrasonic waves were used to assess the development of microcrack damage in a cylinder of Lac du Bonnet gray granite subjected to uniaxial cyclic loading. 14 The crack activities in rock failure tests were monitored via the acoustic emission (AE) technique, and the work indicated that crack activities increases along with an increase in the cycle number. 15 However, the influence of cyclic loading on damage evolution of rock remains not very clear, and how to effectively characterize the damage and failure process based on experimental work still need to be further investigated. As a result, it is necessary to analyze the damage evolution during the entire cyclic loading process, especially using the full-field measurement technique and corresponding experimental analysis method.Among the types of experimental methods, digital image correlation (DIC) is an effective method for obtaining the displacement and strain fields on the surface of materials, with the advantages of providing full-field, real-time, online, and non-contact measurements as well as flexibility in the technique. 16, 17, 18, 19 The method has been extensively applied to various materials, such as metallic foil, 20, 21 composite, 22 the Portevin-Le Chatelier bands of aluminum alloy, 23, 24 and porous carbonate. 25 Moreover, the deformation evolution and crack development of rocks under different loadings were observed using DIC. 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 Ma et al. have defined the standard deviation of the DIC strain field as the damage variable to describe the damage …