Journal
ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE
Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.201792
Keywords
dilatancy behaviour; permeability evolution; crack density; unloading stress path
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51674049]
- Graduate Research and Innovation Foundation of Chongqing [CYB19046, CYB19045]
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The behavior of sandstone under different initial confining pressures and unloading rates was studied in triaxial experiments. It was found that sandstones exhibited shear dilatancy before failure, with crack density increasing as initial confining pressure increased. The normalized permeability was positively correlated with unloading rates, with a linear/nonlinear relationship between the permeability and volumetric strain depending on the unloading rates.
Mechanical response, deformation behaviour and permeability evolution of surrounding rock under unloading conditions are of significant importance in rock engineering activities. In this research, triaxial experiments of sandstone subjected to different initial confining pressures and unloading rates under fixed axial stress were conducted. The results showed that sandstones experienced shear dilatancy before failure. However, the dilatancy factor did not decrease with increasing confining pressure, i.e. the dilatancy behaviour was not suppressed, which contradicted the phenomenon under increasing axial stress. The crack density also increased with increasing initial confining pressure. Furthermore, the normalized permeability was positively correlated with unloading rates. The sandstone permeability was closely related to the shear dilatancy behaviour. In the accelerated dilatancy stage, the relationship between normalized permeability and volumetric strain was linear at low unloading rates and nonlinear at high unloading rates. The linear/nonlinear relationship between them can directly affect the temporality of respective mutation, so as to guide the prevention of geological disasters at different excavations rates.
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