Journal
ROCK MECHANICS AND ROCK ENGINEERING
Volume 48, Issue 5, Pages 1867-1881Publisher
SPRINGER WIEN
DOI: 10.1007/s00603-014-0677-7
Keywords
Dynamic rock strength; Dynamic Brazilian test; Pendulum hammer-driven SHPB; Intermediate strain rate; Numerical simulation
Funding
- National Science Foundation of China [51374049, 51222401]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China [N110201001, N120101001]
- China-South Africa Joint Research Programme [2012DFG71060]
- Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China [20110042110035]
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The tensile strength of rock subjected to dynamic loading constitutes many engineering applications such as rock drilling and blasting. The dynamic Brazilian test of rock specimens was conducted with the split Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB) driven by pendulum hammer, in order to determine the indirect tensile strength of rock under an intermediate strain rate ranging from 5.2 to 12.9 s(-1), which is achieved when the incident bar is impacted by pendulum hammer with different velocities. The incident wave excited by pendulum hammer is triangular in shape, featuring a long rising time, and it is considered to be helpful for achieving a constant strain rate in the rock specimen. The dynamic indirect tensile strength of rock increases with strain rate. Then, the numerical simulator RFPA-Dynamics, a well-recognized software for simulating the rock failure under dynamic loading, is validated by reproducing the Brazilian test of rock when the incident stress wave retrieved at the incident bar is input as the boundary condition, and then it is employed to study the Brazilian test of rock under the higher strain rate. Based on the numerical simulation, the strain-rate dependency of tensile strength and failure pattern of the Brazilian disc specimen under the intermediate strain rate are numerically simulated, and the associated failure mechanism is clarified. It is deemed that the material heterogeneity should be a reason for the strain-rate dependency of rock.
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