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A Three-Dimensional Constitutive Model for Rocks Based on a Strain-Dependent Elastic Modulus

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LITHOSPHERE
Volume 2021, Issue -, Pages -

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GEOSCIENCEWORLD
DOI: 10.2113/2022/1409110

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  1. Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan
  2. China Scholarship Council

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The research group improved a simple 2D and 3D constitutive model for rocks to better simulate the stress-strain curves of real rocks, providing simplified equations and a convex failure criterion.
Our research group previously proposed a simple two-dimensional (2D) constitutive model for rocks to simulate not only the axial stress-axial strain relationship, but also the axial stress-lateral strain relationship, with few complicated equations. However, the failure envelope that it predicted was linear, and it did not consider the effect of the intermediate principal stress (sigma(2)). In the present study, the authors modify this simple 2D model to have a convex failure criterion. Then, the model is extended to a simple three-dimensional (3D) model that well approximates true triaxial stress-strain curves for real rocks under specific values of sigma(2) and sigma(3) and uses only four parameters. However, the predicted peak stress-s2 relationship is linear. Finally, a modified 3D model was developed, which exhibited the true triaxial convex failure criterion. The equations in this model are simpler than the conventional true triaxial failure criteria. The proposed models can be implemented with a finite element method to improve the design of rock structures.

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