Abstract
To reveal the shear-seepage coupling characteristics of fractured specimens under cyclic loading and unloading, the specific test device and test method were designed in this study. The cyclic loading and unloading shear-seepage coupling test on the fractured rock mass under different confining pressures and seepage pressures was carried out by processing “double L-shaped” specimens, and the change laws of the shear characteristics and seepage characteristics of fractured specimens with different roughness were experimentally investigated. The results indicated that the peak shear stress, residual shear stress, and shear stiffness of rough fractures all increase with increasing confining pressure, while the change in normal dilatation displacement is the opposite. Under a constant normal stress, the permeability of rough fracture decreases, increase, and then stabilizes with increasing shear displacement. The peak shear stress of the smooth fracture is 3.7 times lower than that of the rough fracture with the same shear displacement, and the smooth sandstone specimens are all in a shear shrinkage state, with the normal shrinkage displacement of less than 1.0 mm. In addition, during unloading, permeability increases to some extent but cannot recover to the original value. The confining pressure causes permanent damage to the permeability of fractured rock mass. The permeability of sandstone specimens changes primarily in the early loading stage and late unloading stage. Based on the test results, the relationship between permeability and confining pressure follows a negative exponential function under cyclic loading and unloading conditions.
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The shear-seepage coupling test device and test method were designed.
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The effect of seepage pressure on the hydro-mechanical coupling of rough fractures has a threshold value.
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The permeability of rough fractured specimen changes in the staged manner of “decrease-increase-stability” with increasing shear displacement.
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The initial stage of loading and the later stage of unloading are the main stages of permeability change of fractured sandstone specimens.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.U1602232), the Liaoning Province Science and technology plan, China (2019JH2-10100035), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (N170108029), the fundamental research funds for the central universities (Grant No.2101018), Study on dynamic characterization method and catastrophe criterion of surrounding rock damage under large-scale mining in deep multi-mining area (SMDPC202103) and the China Scholarship Council (CSC No.201906080071) for a joint Ph.D. fellowship, which enabled Tianjiao Yang to visit the Environmental Geomechanics Laboratory, the Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics, McGill University, Canada.
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Yang, T., Wang, P., Wang, S. et al. Experimental Study on Shear-Seepage Coupling Characteristics of Single Fractured Rock Mass Under Cyclic Loading and Unloading. Rock Mech Rock Eng 56, 2137–2156 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-022-03125-x
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