Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering

, Volume 51, Issue 3, pp 677–694 | Cite as

Laboratory Investigation on Physical and Mechanical Properties of Granite After Heating and Water-Cooling Treatment

  • Fan Zhang
  • Jianjian Zhao
  • Dawei Hu
  • Frederic Skoczylas
  • Jianfu Shao
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Abstract

High-temperature treatment may cause changes in physical and mechanical properties of rocks. Temperature changing rate (heating, cooling and both of them) plays an important role in those changes. Thermal conductivity tests, ultrasonic pulse velocity tests, gas permeability tests and triaxial compression tests are performed on granite samples after a heating and rapid cooling treatment in order to characterize the changes in physical and mechanical properties. Seven levels of temperature (from 25 to 900 °C) are used. It is found that the physical and mechanical properties of granite are significantly deteriorated by the thermal treatment. The porosity shows a significant increase from 1.19% at the initial state to 6.13% for samples heated to 900 °C. The increase in porosity is mainly due to three factors: (1) a large number of microcracks caused by the rapid cooling rate; (2) the mineral transformation of granite through high-temperature heating and water-cooling process; (3) the rapid cooling process causes the mineral particles to weaken. As the temperature of treatment increases, the thermal conductivity and P-wave velocity decrease while the gas permeability increases. Below 200 °C, the elastic modulus and cohesion increase with temperature increasing. Between 200 and 500 °C, the elastic modulus and cohesion have no obvious change with temperature. Beyond 500 °C, as the temperature increases, the elastic modulus and cohesion obviously decrease and the decreasing rate becomes slower with the increase in confining pressure. Poisson’s ratio and internal frictional coefficient have no obvious change as the temperature increases. Moreover, there is a transition from a brittle to ductile behavior when the temperature becomes high. At 900 °C, the granite shows an obvious elastic–plastic behavior.

Keywords

Granite High temperature Heating and water-cooling treatment Physical and mechanical properties 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.School of Civil Engineering, Architecture and EnvironmentHubei University of TechnologyWuhanChina
  2. 2.State Key Laboratory of Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Institute of Rock and Soil MechanicsChinese Academy of SciencesWuhanChina
  3. 3.University of LilleLaboratory of Mechanics of LilleVilleneuve d’AscqFrance
  4. 4.Ecole Centrale de LilleLaboratory of Mechanics of LilleVilleneuve d’AscqFrance

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