Abstract
The brittle failure of hard rock due to the excavation unloading in deep rock engineering often causes serious problems in mining and tunneling engineering, and the failure process is always affected by groundwater. In order to investigate the effects of stress paths and water conditions on the mechanical properties and failure behavior of rocks, a series of triaxial compression tests were conducted on dry and saturated sandstones under various loading and unloading paths. It was found that when the sandstone rock samples are saturated by water, the cohesion, the internal friction angle and the Young’s modulus will decrease but the Poisson′s ratio will increase. The fracturing characteristics of the sandstone specimens are related to the initial confining pressure, the stress paths and the water conditions from both macroscopic and microscopic viewpoints. The failure of sandstone in unloading test is more severe than that under loading test, particularly for dry sandstone samples. In unloading test, the energy is mainly consumed for the circumferential deformation and converted into kinetic energy for the rock bursts. The sandstone is more prone to produce internal cracks under the effect of water, and the absorbed energy mainly contributes to the damage of rock. It indicates that the possibility of rockburst in saturated rock is lower than the samples in dry condition. It is important to mention that water injection in rock is an effective way to prevent rockburst in deep rock engineering.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Chongqing Basic Research and Frontier Exploration Project
Subject
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes,Computer Science Applications,Process Chemistry and Technology,General Engineering,Instrumentation,General Materials Science
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