Abstract
It is recognized that the stress-induced damage impacts the progressive failure behavior of rocks. A phenomenological model for the compressive failure of rocks is thus presented in this study. The model addresses the progressive growth of damage that leads to the strength weakening on a macroscopic scale. Considering dramatic difference between uniaxial compression and tension strengths for rocks, the admitted Mises–Schleiche Drucker–Prager strength criterion is adopted to characterize the damage initiation. On this basis, a two-parameter Weibull-type probability function is used to define the strength distribution of representative volume elements, followed by the use of damage variable for addressing the accumulated probability of failure. The proposed damage variable essentially characterizes both the critical stress level of damage initiation and progressive damage evolution law. Detailed comparisons have been carried out between the predictions and experimental observations, and issues related to the damage evolution are particularly addressed. In addition, the results further validate the proposed model considering damage initiation.
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Abbreviations
- \({\sigma _{\text{1}}},{\sigma _{\text{2}}},{\sigma _{\text{3}}}\) :
-
Major, intermediate, and minor apparent principal stresses, respectively
- \(\sigma _{1}^{*},\sigma _{2}^{*},\sigma _{3}^{*}\) :
-
Major, intermediate, and minor net principal stresses, respectively
- \({\sigma _{{\text{1}},{\text{p}}}}\) :
-
Maximum principal stress at the peak point
- \({\varepsilon _{\text{1}}},{\varepsilon _{\text{2}}},{\varepsilon _{\text{3}}}\) :
-
Major, intermediate, and minor apparent principal strains, respectively
- \({\varepsilon _{{\text{1}},{\text{p}}}}\) :
-
Maximum principal axial strain at the peak point
- \(A\) :
-
An empirical constant
- \({\sigma _{\text{c}}}\) :
-
Uniaxial compression strength
- \({\sigma _{{\text{cd}}}}\) :
-
An empirical constant
- \({\sigma _{\text{t}}}\) :
-
Uniaxial tension strength
- \({C_0}\) :
-
Uniaxial compression strength
- \(\left| {{T_0}} \right|\) :
-
Uniaxial tension strength
- \(D\) :
-
Damage variable
- \(E\) :
-
Elasticity modulus of rocks
- \({F^*}\) :
-
A fictitious loading function
- \(\nu\) :
-
Poisson’s ratio of rocks
- \(\varphi ,c\) :
-
Cohesion and angles of internal friction of rocks, respectively
- \({F_0},m\) :
-
Statistical parameters for Weibull distribution
- \({I_{\text{T}}}\) :
-
Transition condition for the MSDP criterion
- \({I_{\text{1}}}\) :
-
First invariant of the stress tensor
- \({J_{\text{2}}}\) :
-
Second invariant of the deviatoric stress tensor
- \({J_{\text{3}}}\) :
-
Third invariant of the deviatoric stress tensor
- \(a,k\) :
-
Material constants for Drucker–Prager criterion
- \(a\) :
-
Fitting constant
- \(b\) :
-
Fitting constant
- \({k_0}\) :
-
Material constant
- \({\text{p}}\) :
-
Particular values at peak point of stress–strain curves
- *:
-
Net stress
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This work was fully supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract nos. 51608540 and 51678231, and the Basal Research Fund Support by Hunan University.
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Appendix
In this section, a number of equations that denote intermediate variables were shown here for derivation requirement with respect to Eq. (23) with the boundary condition of \({\sigma _1}={\sigma _{{\text{1,p}}}}\) and \({\varepsilon _1}={\varepsilon _{{\text{1,p}}}}\). The following expression ensues
Rearranging Eq. (33) gives
In the equation, Dp is calculated using Eq. (26) at the situation of peak point, which reads
By inspiring from Eq. (14), the partial differential of the damage variable with respect to the axial strain can be written as
In the equation, \(F_{{\text{p}}}^{*}\) is calculated using Eq. (26) at the situation of peak point, which reads
with
These Eqs. (40) to (48) are shown to describe the solution of \({{\partial {F^*}} \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {{\partial {F^*}} {\partial {\varepsilon _1}}}} \right. \kern-0pt} {\partial {\varepsilon _1}}}\) involved in Eq. (36):
with
Substituting Eqs. (34) and (40) into Eq. (36), Eqs. (28) and (29) in the main paper can be obtained.
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Zhao, H., Zhou, S. & Zhang, L. A phenomenological modelling of rocks based on the influence of damage initiation. Environ Earth Sci 78, 143 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-019-8172-9
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