Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOMECHANICS
Volume 20, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
ASCE-AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)GM.1943-5622.0001642
Keywords
Rock mechanics; F-T cycles; Chemical erosion; Porosity; Mode-I fracture toughness; Rock damage
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11302167, 11572244, 51478272]
- National Natural Science Foundation
- Guangdong Province of China [U1301241]
- International Cooperation and Exchange of the National Natural Science Foundation of China [51520105012]
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The safety and durability of rock mass engineering face rigorous testing in cold regions, prompting experimental study of the effect of chemical corrosion and freeze-thaw (F-T) cycles. By taking the actual environment of the joint rock in the hydro-fluctuation belt of a typical bank slope in the Three Gorges Reservoir region of China as an example, the interactive relationship between chemical corrosion and F-T cycles is studied. An F-T cycle test scheme is adopted to explore the F-T degradation of mechanical properties and the damage degradation mechanism of mode-I fracture sandstone immersed in different chemical solutions. Experimental results show that there is significant F-T damage that deteriorates mechanical properties under different chemical corrosion attacks but that peak strain and yield properties of the specimen increase. In the first 0-20 F-T cycles, the deterioration of the mechanical properties of sandstone immersed in the alkaline Na2SO4 (pH = 12.0) solutions is the smallest; that in the acid Na2SO4 (pH = 3.0) solutions is the greatest. With the increasing number of F-T cycles, the F-T degradation degree of the mechanical properties in Na2SO4 (pH = 12.0) solutions gradually increase, but that is still smaller than that in the acid Na2SO4 (pH = 3.0) solutions, and is relatively great compared with that in neutral solutions. The damage to the microstructure inside sandstone gradually increases with repeated F-T cycles; the edges and corners of the mineral grains gradually disappear or become smoother. In addition, the roughness of the mineral grains gradually decreases, eliciting a looser structure. Statistical analysis reveals an obvious relationship between the damage degree of mechanical parameters and ion concentration in chemical solutions, with higher ion concentrations leading to greater deterioration degrees of physical and mechanical parameters. Correlations among physical and mechanical properties of specimens, F-T damage variable degree, and ion concentration are obtained.
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