Modeling of crack initiation, propagation and coalescence in rocks
One of the most successful criteria proposed so far to describe the initiation and propagation of cracks under quasi-static loading in rock-like materials is a stress-based criterion developed by Bobet (Fracture coalescence in rock materials: experimental observations and numerical predictions. Sc....
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| author | Einstein, Herbert H. Goncalves da Silva, Bruno Miguel |
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| description | One of the most successful criteria proposed so far to describe the initiation and propagation of cracks under quasi-static loading in rock-like materials is a stress-based criterion developed by Bobet (Fracture coalescence in rock materials: experimental observations and numerical predictions. Sc. D, Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997) which is embedded in FROCK, a Displacement Discontinuity code that was developed by the rock mechanics group at MIT. Even though the predictions obtained with this criterion generally correspond to the experimental results, there are cases in which the quasi-static crack propagation results obtained with FROCK are not satisfactory. For this reason, a qualitative study using the Finite Element code, ABAQUS, was conducted to analyze stress-, strain- and energy-based criteria used for modeling crack development. Based on the ABAQUS relative quantitative analysis, it was found that the strain- and stress-based criteria may be more appropriate than the energy-based criterion to model quasi-static crack development. Thus, a strain-based and a normal stress-dependent criterion were implemented in FROCK. The cracking patterns obtained with these proposed criteria were compared with those obtained using Bobet’s original stress-based criterion and with experimental observations made in molded gypsum specimens. The proposed strain-based criterion implemented in FROCK appeared to yield better results than Bobet’s stress-based criterion. The influence of the friction angle (φ) on the cracking patterns was studied with the proposed normal stress-dependent criterion and showed that friction angles closer to 0[superscript ∘] yielded the best results, which may indicate that, at least for the microscale, the critical shear stress at which rock fails does not depend upon the normal stresses applied. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1031512022-10-01T22:04:55Z Modeling of crack initiation, propagation and coalescence in rocks Einstein, Herbert H. Goncalves da Silva, Bruno Miguel Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Goncalves da Silva, Bruno Miguel Einstein, Herbert H. One of the most successful criteria proposed so far to describe the initiation and propagation of cracks under quasi-static loading in rock-like materials is a stress-based criterion developed by Bobet (Fracture coalescence in rock materials: experimental observations and numerical predictions. Sc. D, Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997) which is embedded in FROCK, a Displacement Discontinuity code that was developed by the rock mechanics group at MIT. Even though the predictions obtained with this criterion generally correspond to the experimental results, there are cases in which the quasi-static crack propagation results obtained with FROCK are not satisfactory. For this reason, a qualitative study using the Finite Element code, ABAQUS, was conducted to analyze stress-, strain- and energy-based criteria used for modeling crack development. Based on the ABAQUS relative quantitative analysis, it was found that the strain- and stress-based criteria may be more appropriate than the energy-based criterion to model quasi-static crack development. Thus, a strain-based and a normal stress-dependent criterion were implemented in FROCK. The cracking patterns obtained with these proposed criteria were compared with those obtained using Bobet’s original stress-based criterion and with experimental observations made in molded gypsum specimens. The proposed strain-based criterion implemented in FROCK appeared to yield better results than Bobet’s stress-based criterion. The influence of the friction angle (φ) on the cracking patterns was studied with the proposed normal stress-dependent criterion and showed that friction angles closer to 0[superscript ∘] yielded the best results, which may indicate that, at least for the microscale, the critical shear stress at which rock fails does not depend upon the normal stresses applied. 2016-06-17T20:46:08Z 2016-06-17T20:46:08Z 2013-07 2012-08 2016-05-23T12:07:11Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0376-9429 1573-2673 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103151 Gonçalves da Silva, Bruno, and Herbert H. Einstein. “Modeling of Crack Initiation, Propagation and Coalescence in Rocks.” International Journal of Fracture 182.2 (2013): 167–186. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4074-4736 en http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10704-013-9866-8 International Journal of Fracture Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht application/pdf Springer Netherlands Springer Netherlands |
| spellingShingle | Einstein, Herbert H. Goncalves da Silva, Bruno Miguel Modeling of crack initiation, propagation and coalescence in rocks |
| title | Modeling of crack initiation, propagation and coalescence in rocks |
| title_full | Modeling of crack initiation, propagation and coalescence in rocks |
| title_fullStr | Modeling of crack initiation, propagation and coalescence in rocks |
| title_full_unstemmed | Modeling of crack initiation, propagation and coalescence in rocks |
| title_short | Modeling of crack initiation, propagation and coalescence in rocks |
| title_sort | modeling of crack initiation propagation and coalescence in rocks |
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