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A simple three-dimensional (3D) failure criterion for rocks is proposed in this study. This new failure criterion inherits all the features of the Hoek–Brown (HB) criterion in characterizing the rock strength in triaxial compression, and also accounts for the influence of the intermediate principal stress. The failure envelope surface has non-circular convex sections in the deviatoric stress plane, and is smooth, except in triaxial compression. In particular, the failure function of the proposed criterion has a similar simple expression as that of the HB criterion in terms of the principal stresses. The material parameters can be calibrated from tests in conventional triaxial compression, and predictions using this new criterion generally compare well with polyaxial testing data for a variety of rocks. Comparison of the new 3D failure criterion and two existing criteria demonstrates that the new failure criterion performs better in characterizing the rock strength. A unified expression for the 3D failure criteria is further provided, retaining the features of the classical criteria and recovering several existing ones as specific cases.
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Abbreviations
- σ 1, σ 2, σ 3 :
-
Principal stresses at failure
- σ, S :
-
Stress tensor and the deviatoric stress tensor
- I 1, σ m :
-
The first invariant of stress tensor and the mean stress
- J 2, J 3 :
-
The second and third invariants of deviatoric stress tensor
- τ oct :
-
The octahedral shear stress
- σ ′1 , σ ′2 , σ ′3 :
-
Effective principal stresses at failure
- σ ′ m , σ ′ m,2 :
-
The effective mean stress
- θ :
-
The similarity angle
- ξ, ρ, θ :
-
Haigh–Westergaard coordinates
- m b , s, a :
-
The empirical constants of the generalized Hoek–Brown criterion
- σ ci, m i :
-
The uniaxial compression strength and material constant of intact rock
- GSI, D :
-
The Geological strength index and the disturbance of rock masses
- R 3(θ):
-
The lode dependence function
- A(θ):
-
The coefficient of the failure criterion
- RMSE:
-
The root-mean-square error
- ρ test i , ρ calc i :
-
The i-th tested data and the i-th calculated one
- \(\bar{\rho }_{\text{test}}\) :
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The mean value of the test sample
- n :
-
The number of test series for a specific rock
- ɛ i :
-
The predicted error for the i-th test
- DC:
-
Coefficient of determination
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The first author is grateful for the support from the National Science Foundation of China (Grant 51308054). The opinions, findings, and conclusions do not reflect the views of the funding institutions or other individuals.
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Appendix: Unified Expression of the 3D Failure Criterion for Intact Rocks
Appendix: Unified Expression of the 3D Failure Criterion for Intact Rocks
For intact rocks, a = 0.5, the unified expression given by Eq. (21) can be written as
Then \(\sqrt {J^{\prime}_{2} } /\sigma_{\text{ci}}\) can be explicitly derived from Eq. (43)
Or in terms of Haigh–Westergaard coordinates
Finally, we obtain the following invariant representation for the unified expression
The invariant representation for the new failure criterion (see Eq. (29)) is given by
Rearranging Eq. (47) gives
which can be also derived from Eq. (46) by setting A(θ) = 2cos(π/3−θ).
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Jiang, H., Zhao, J. A Simple Three-dimensional Failure Criterion for Rocks Based on the Hoek–Brown Criterion. Rock Mech Rock Eng 48, 1807–1819 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-014-0691-9
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