Journal
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
Volume 11, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app11052285
Keywords
strength; confined tension; confined extension; intermediate principal stress; Brazilian test; failure criteria
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- New Mexico Consortium
- Los Alamos National Laboratory [LA-UR-20-30383]
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The strength of rocks in the confined tension region is significantly influenced by the intermediate principal stress, with increasing stress leading to higher strength. Additionally, as the confining pressure increases, there is a transition from tension-dominated failure to shear processes dominating failure.
Strength of rocks in the confined tension region, where the minimum principal stress is tensile, has only infrequently been measured and is not well understood. Quasi-static confined Brazilian tests under a range of confining stresses (2.76 to 27.58 MPa) where used to determine the strength of sandstone in the confined tension region. The test results indicate that the strength in the confined tension region was a strong function of the intermediate principal stress: increasing the intermediate principal stress significantly increased the strength of the sandstone. The strength data were well fit by the Mogi-Coulomb criterion, which accounts for the intermediate principal stress. Unconfined Brazilian strength data were not well fit to the Mogi-Coulomb criterion derived from the confined Brazilian test data, consistent with a transition from tensile to shear processes dominating failure with increasing confining pressure. Observations of post-failure fracture surfaces reveal more indication of shear processes with increasing confining pressure. Numerical simulations from combined finite-discrete element method are compared to the experimental results and reflect similar conditions for failure compared to the experimental tests in the confined tension region.
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