scholarly journals Development of a polyaxial platen for testing true triaxial behavior of rocks

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prasoon Garg ◽  
Bhardwaj Pandit ◽  
Brijes Mishra ◽  
G.L. Sivakumar Babu
Keyword(s):  
Stress State ◽  
Principal Stress ◽  
Axial Stress ◽  
Intermediate Principal Stress ◽  
Intact Rock ◽  
Triaxial Stress ◽  
Triaxial Tests ◽  
True Triaxial ◽  
True Triaxial Tests

Mining at greater depths can lead to stress-induced failure, especially in areas of high horizontal in-situ stress. The induced stresses around the opening are known to be in a poly-axial stress state where, σ_1≠ σ_2≠ σ_3 with special case of σ_3= 0 and σ_1, σ_2 ≠ 0 at its boundary. The conventional triaxial testing does not represent the actual in-situ strength of the rock in regions of high horizontal stress, as it ignores the influence of intermediate principal stress (σ_2). The typical poly-axial testing (biaxial and true-triaxial tests) of intact rock mostly requires sophisticated and expensive loading systems. This study investigated the mechanical behavior of intact rock under a poly-axial stress state using a simple and cost-effective design. The apparatus consists of biaxial frame and a confining device. The biaxial frame has two platens that apply equal stress in both directions (σ_1=σ_2) on a 50.8 mm cubical specimen when placed inside the uniaxial loading device. The confining device performed separate biaxial tests under constant intermediate principal stress (σ_2 = constant) and true-triaxial tests when used along with the biaxial frame. This study then compared the failure modes and peak strength of Berea Sandstone specimens with other biaxial/triaxial devices to validate the design of the poly-axial apparatus. We also performed uniaxial tests on both standard cylindrical samples and prismatic specimen of different slenderness ratios. These tests provided a complete understanding of the failure mode transition from standard uniaxial compressive tests to triaxial stress conditions on cubical specimen. Additionally, this study determined best-fitted strength envelopes for biaxial and triaxial stress state. Based on regression analysis, we found a quadratic polynomial to be a good fit to biaxial strength envelope. For true-triaxial strength envelope, we found the 3D failure criterion by Nadai (1950) to be a good fit with R^2 of 0.964

Anisotropic Behavior of Geomaterial under Three-Dimensional Stress States

2010 ◽  
Vol 160-162 ◽  
pp. 1425-1431
Author(s):  
Kun Yong Zhang ◽  
Yan Gang Zhang ◽  
Chi Wang
Keyword(s):  
Stress State ◽  
Principal Stress ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Complex Stress State ◽  
Triaxial Tests ◽  
Induced Anisotropy ◽  
Principal Stresses ◽  
True Triaxial ◽  
Stress Effects ◽  
Stress Induced Anisotropy

Most soil constitutive models were developed based on the traditional triaxial tests with isotropic assumption, in which the load is applied as the major principal stress direction and the other two principal stresses are symmetric. When such isotropic models are applied to practical analysis, stress induced anisotropy under complex stress state and the middle principal stress effects are often neglected, thus there are many disagreements between the calculated results and the infield testing data. To simulate the practical loading process, true triaxial tests were carried out on geomaterial under three-dimensional stress state. It was found that the stress induced anisotropy effects are remarkable and the middle principal stress effects are obvious because of the initial three-dimensional stress state. Such kind of stress-induced anisotropy could have important impact on the numerical analysis results and should be taken into consideration when developing the constitutive model.

scholarly journals The Behavior of a Coarse Granular Material under Complex Stress Conditions

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Yuefeng Zhou ◽  
Jiajun Pan ◽  
Zhanlin Cheng ◽  
Yongzhen Zuo
Keyword(s):  
Granular Material ◽  
Principal Stress ◽  
Stress Ratio ◽  
Intermediate Principal Stress ◽  
Friction Reduction ◽  
Western China ◽  
Triaxial Tests ◽  
Confining Stress ◽  
True Triaxial ◽  
Prediction Approach

In recent years, dozens of high rockfill dams are under construction or planning for hydropower exploration in western China. In dam construction, the mechanical behavior of coarse granular material greatly affects the compatible deformation of dam body. In this article, an indirect in situ density prediction approach for coarse granular material is firstly proposed to solve the technical obstacle on prediction of the material density in thick overburden layer of a dam site in southwest China. Adopting a self-developed large-scale true triaxial apparatus with a special friction-reduction technique, four series of true triaxial tests were then performed to investigate the behavior of a coarse granular material with a maximum particle diameter of 60 mm. Test results show that the peak strength of the material increases together with the increasing confining stress and the increasing intermediate principal stress ratio. The material dilatancy is restricted by both the confining stress and the intermediate principal stress ratio. With the increase in intermediate principal stress ratio, the internal friction angle increases firstly and then decreases slightly, but the slope of stress path reduces gradually. The tested peak states were compared with several well-known strength criteria under the framework of generalized stress, showing a good fitness with the Lade–Duncan criterion and underestimation by the Mohr–Coulomb criterion and the Matsuoka–Nakai criterion. The strength envelope in the π plane shrinks with the increasing confining stress.

scholarly journals An Extension Failure Criterion for Brittle Rock

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Aizhong Lu ◽  
Ning Zhang ◽  
Guisen Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Principal Stress ◽  
Poisson’S Ratio ◽  
Compressive Strain ◽  
Strength Criterion ◽  
Maximum Principal Stress ◽  
Intermediate Principal Stress ◽  
Brittle Rock ◽  
Poisson's Ratio ◽  
Triaxial Tests ◽  
True Triaxial

Under the triaxial compressive state, the compressive strain is supposed to happen in the direction of the maximum principal stress, but tensile strain happens in the direction of the minimum principal stress. Moreover, as the intermediate principal stress is not too high, the corresponding strain can also be tensile. If the brittle rock is assumed as linear elastic in the prefailure stage, a new strength criterion based on the sum of the two tensile strains was presented. The new criterion considers the differences in mechanical parameters (i.e., elastic modulus and Poisson’s ratio) under tension and compression. The parameters of the criterion only include Poisson’s ratio and uniaxial strength. And the effect of the intermediate principal stress σ 2 can be reflected. Certain featured failure phenomenon of rock material can be explained well by the proposed criterion. The results of conventional and true triaxial tests can verify the criterion well. Finally, the criterion is compared with the Mohr–Coulomb and Drucker–Prager criteria.

scholarly journals Effect of Intermediate Principal Stress on the Strength, Deformation, and Permeability of Sandstone

Energies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 2694 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhenlong Song ◽  
Minghui Li ◽  
Guangzhi Yin ◽  
Pathegama Ranjith ◽  
Dongming Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pressure Drop ◽  
Principal Stress ◽  
Intermediate Principal Stress ◽  
Stress Conditions ◽  
Triaxial Stress ◽  
Mechanical Behaviors ◽  
Seepage Velocity ◽  
True Triaxial ◽  
Gas Seepage ◽  
True Triaxial Stress

Although the mechanical behaviors and flow aspects of sandstone have been previously investigated, studies of the effect of the intermediate principal stress (σ2) on the strength, deformation, and permeability of sandstone are lacking. In this work, the mechanical behaviors and permeability of sandstone under true triaxial stress conditions were investigated using a newly developed true triaxial geophysical apparatus. The experimental results showed that with increasing σ2, the peak strength, octahedral effective normal stress, and octahedral effective shear stress of the sandstone increased, and the rate of increase decreased. This is because a larger intermediate principal stress coefficient b has an inhibitory effect on rock strength. In our study, as the ratio of σ2/σ3 increased, the specimen entered compressive strain in the σ2 direction during the first stress drop. The stress and strain path deviations occur during rock failure. The amount of deviation increased as the σ2 increased before the peak stress. This phenomenon indicates that elastic mechanics are not suitable for understanding this sandstone rock during its failure. The permeability evolution of the sandstone under true triaxial stress conditions was measured and analyzed to investigate the effect of σ2. During the complete true triaxial stress-strain experiments, the variation we found in gas seepage velocity could be divided into two stages. Before the first pressure drop, the gas seepage velocity was mainly affected by volume strain. After the first pressure drop, the seepage velocity was affected by the deviator strain, which can change the seepage channels.

The Brittle-Ductile Transition Character of Rocks and Its Effect on Rockbursts

2004 ◽  
Vol 261-263 ◽  
pp. 171-176
Author(s):  
Guang Zhang ◽  
Jing Xi Chen ◽  
Bin Hu
Keyword(s):  
Stress State ◽  
Stress Path ◽  
Triaxial Tests ◽  
Affecting Factors ◽  
True Triaxial ◽  
Brittle Ductile Transition ◽  
True Triaxial Tests

The brittle-ductile character is one of the important mechanical indexes of rocks and also one of the important affecting factors of rockburst. Both conventional and true triaxial tests have shown that the brittle-ductile character of rocks varies with the variation in rocks stress state and stress path, but these two kinds of tests have revealed totally different laws of brittle-ductile transition. This present paper analyses the results from two tests firstly and then summarizes the effect of rock’s brittle-ductile transition character on rockburst and finally points out the deficiency in present studies of rockburst.

Neutron Evaluation of Stress in Industrial Screws

2005 ◽  
Vol 490-491 ◽  
pp. 269-274
Author(s):  
Agnès Fabre ◽  
Ivan Lillamand ◽  
Jean-Éric Masse ◽  
Laurent Barrallier
Keyword(s):  
Stress State ◽  
Service Life ◽  
Neutron Diffraction ◽  
Axial Stress ◽  
Stress Gradient ◽  
In Situ Measurements ◽  
Nondestructive Technique

Neutron diffraction measurements were used in this study in order to determine the axial stress state in loaded screw from a specific assembly. The knowing of stress gradient is need to qualify a standard gauge used to calibrate the response of in-situ measurements using ultrasonic nondestructive technique. US is well adapted to perform measurements of the evolution of stress state on industrial screws during service life of the bolded assemblies.

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