Journal
ROCK MECHANICS AND ROCK ENGINEERING
Volume 50, Issue 7, Pages 1739-1751Publisher
SPRINGER WIEN
DOI: 10.1007/s00603-017-1201-7
Keywords
Mixed mode I/III; Marble rock; Novel disc shape specimen; K-Ic-K-IIIc data; Fracture models
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Fracture growth in underground rock structures occurs under complex stress states, which typically include the in- and out-of-plane sliding deformation of jointed rock masses before catastrophic failure. However, the lack of a comprehensive theoretical and experimental fracture toughness study for rocks under contributions of out-of plane deformations (i.e. mode III) is one of the shortcomings of this field. Therefore, in this research the mixed mode I/III fracture toughness of a typical rock material is investigated experimentally by means of a novel cracked disc specimen subjected to bend loading. It was shown that the specimen can provide full combinations of modes I and III and consequently a complete set of mixed mode I/III fracture toughness data were determined for the tested marble rock. By moving from pure mode I towards pure mode III, fracture load was increased; however, the corresponding fracture toughness value became smaller. The obtained experimental fracture toughness results were finally predicted using theoretical and empirical fracture models.
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