scholarly journals Exploring the Effect of Asperity Order on Mechanical Character of Joint Specimen from the Perspective of Damage

Geofluids ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Zhouhao Yuan ◽  
Yicheng Ye ◽  
Binyu Luo

The joint morphology is multiscale. The effect of each asperity order on the mechanical properties of joints is different. The shear mechanical properties of joint specimens are related to its surface damage characteristics. At present, there are still few studies on the effect of roughness on the shearing mechanical properties of joint from the perspective of damage of each asperity order. In this paper, the standard roughness profile was chosen as initial morphology. The standard roughness profile was decomposed into waviness and unevenness by the method combine the ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) and the cut-off criterion. Then, the joint specimen which contains waviness and unevenness and the specimen which only contains waviness were prepared by the 3D engraving technology. The 40 sets of joint specimens with different asperity order were subjected to direct shear tests under different normal stresses. Based on the 3D scanning technology and ICP iterative method, the damaged area and the damage volume were calculated. Based on the damage volume data and the acoustic emission (AE) data, the effect of asperity order to the joint mechanical behaviour was studied. The results indicate that (1) under low normal stress, the unevenness plays a control role in the failure mode of the joint specimen. Under low normal stress, the joint surface containing only waviness exhibits slip failure, and the joint surface with unevenness exhibits shear failure. With the increase of the normal stress, the failure mode of the specimen containing only waviness changes from slip failure to shear failure; (2) the unevenness controls the damage degree of the joint specimen. The damaged area, damage volume, AE energy rate, and accumulative AE energy of the joint specimen with unevenness are larger than those of the specimen with only waviness, and this difference increases with the normal stress increase; (3) the difference between the joint specimen with unevenness and specimen with only waviness mainly exists in the prepeak nonlinear stage and the postpeak softening stage. The characteristic parameters of acoustic emission generated in the postpeak softening stage of the joint specimen with unevenness are greater than those of the specimen with only waviness. This phenomenon can be used to explain the stress drop difference at the postpeak softening stage; (4) the AE b value can be used to evaluate the damage of joint specimens. Analysing the damage difference of each asperity order under different normal stresses is of great significance to the analysis of the influence of the morphology of the joint surface on the mechanical properties of the joint.


Geofluids ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Saisai Wu ◽  
Xiaohan Zhang ◽  
Junping Li ◽  
Zhao Wang

The behavior of rock mass is governed by the properties of both the rock material and discontinuities in the rock mass. Surrounding environments including the existence of water also have a great influence on the behavior and mechanical properties of rocks. In this study, a novel-designed compression and seepage testing system, associated with an acoustic emission system, was designed and constructed. The changes in the specimens resulting from the uniaxial compression were monitored by an acoustic emission technique. The characteristics of the acoustic emission parameters at different stages including compaction and crack initiation, crack propagation, and catastrophic failure were analyzed. The existence of seepage had direct influences on the mechanical properties and failure patterns of the specimens. The specimens tested in pure compression conditions demonstrated strong burst proneness and ruptured into separate pieces, while for the specimens with seepage, no burst proneness was observed and the specimens tended to fail along a macroscopic shear failure plane. The highest average energy of the acoustic signal occurred at the stage of initial rupture of rock specimens, rather than at the stage of widespread rupture. The studies explored the possibilities of using the acoustic emission technique to investigate the problems associated with the seepage in geotechnical and rock engineering and provided meaningful results for further research in this field.



2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianxun Chen ◽  
Qingsong Wang ◽  
Jiaqi Guo ◽  
Yanbin Luo ◽  
Yao Li ◽  
...  

Firstly, I-RPT ultrasonic detector was used to test the wave velocity of karst limestone with different initial microstructure and water content. Then, RMT-150B rock testing machine and DS2-16B acoustic emission system were used to test the acoustic emission (AE) under uniaxial compression. Mechanical properties and AE characteristics were obtained during rock failure. The detailed relationship between stress-strain and AE characteristics was studied in this paper. Research results indicated the following: (1) For samples with many primary fissures and defects, wave velocity in dry state was larger than that in its natural state. From natural state to saturated state, the wave velocity tended to increase. For samples with good integrity, wave velocity increased with increasing of water content. (2) In the dry state, the samples presented tension failure. In saturated state, the samples presented tension-shear failure. For samples with cracks and good integrity, samples showed brittle failure. For samples with many corrosion pores which showed ductile damage under natural and saturated state, the spalling phenomenon was enhanced under saturated state. (3) With increasing of water content, the peak stress and AE peak reduced dramatically. In brittle failure, AE peak could be considered a sign of failure. In ductile failure, AE activity decreased gradually with the decrease of stress. (4) The mechanical properties and AE characteristics corresponding to four main fracture propagation types were also discussed.



2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Jiawei Liu ◽  
Haijian Su ◽  
Hongwen Jing ◽  
Chengguo Hu ◽  
Qian Yin

In order to overcome the disadvantage of traditional joint fabrication method—inability to reproduce the rough surfaces of practical rock joints—3D-printing technology was applied to restructure five kinds of rough joint according to the failure surface formed by the triaxial prepeak unloading test in this study. And uniaxial compression test was carried out on the rock-like specimens containing closed 3D-printing rough joint to study the effects of joint inclination and joint length on the mechanical properties (peak strength, peak strain, elastic modulus, and secant modulus), cracking process, and failure modes. Besides, digital image correlation (DIC) method and acoustic emission (AE) system are used to investigate the whole evolution process of strain fields and crack propagation during loading. It is found that the mechanical parameters decrease first and then go up as the joint inclination increases, while presenting a continuous downward trend with the increase of joint length. Inclination of 45° and the larger joint length bring more extensive reduction to mechanical properties of specimens. Specimens exhibit typical brittle failure characteristics. The failure mode of specimens affected by different joint inclination is tension-shear failure. And the joint scale rises; the failure mode of specimens changes from tensile failure to shear failure. Larger joint scale results in the longer prepeak fluctuation phase on axial stress-strain curves and more dispersed distribution of high-value AE counts.



2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 1184-1198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanyong Tuo ◽  
Jinxiang Chen ◽  
Mengye Xu ◽  
Zhijie Zhang ◽  
Zhensheng Guo

In the present study, the shear failure mode and mechanical properties of the core structure of biomimetic fully integrated honeycomb plates with sealing edges were investigated experimentally and through the finite element method. The findings are as follows: (1) the failure mode of the sealing edges and honeycomb walls perpendicular to the shear direction is mainly debonding between the fiber and matrix, whereas fiber breakage, debonding between the fiber and matrix and exfoliation of the resin matrix occur in the sealing edges parallel to the shear direction. Meanwhile, the reasonableness and feasibility of the double shear testing apparatus designed in this study were verified, thus confirming the results of research are reliable and valid. (2) Shear failure of the core structure of fully integrated honeycomb plates is mainly fiber debonding appearing in the middle surface of the core structure, which is a failure of the material interface. Stripping failure in the joint interface of the core layer and upper and lower plates does not occur, which indicates that the biological structure possesses excellent integral mechanical properties. (3) The sealing edges parallel to the shear direction and the honeycomb walls that are oriented 30 degrees to the shear direction are the first to fail, followed by the sealing edges and honeycomb walls perpendicular to the shear direction, which is consistent with the microscopic failure phenomenon observed in both directions. To prevent failure at the material interface, the fully integrated honeycomb plates manufactured in this experiment require further improvements. Thus, countermeasures are proposed, such as pre-treating the fiber surface. These findings will specify future research directions to perfect fully integrated honeycomb plates and improve the shear mechanical properties of core structures.



2006 ◽  
Vol 326-328 ◽  
pp. 1709-1712 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hai Bo Li ◽  
Hai Peng Feng ◽  
Bo Liu ◽  
Jun Ru Li

In order to study the strength and deformation properties of rock joint under different shear velocities, normal stresses and undulation angles, series testes are conducted by a RMT-150C testing machines with artificial concrete rock joint samples in the present paper. Base on the experimental results, it can be found that the peak shear strengths decrease with the increment of shear velocity, and the decreasing rates tend to decrease with the increasing shear velocity. The shear strength of rock joints increase with the increasing undulation angles, and linearly increase with the increment of normal stress. It is also indicated that the shear stiffness increase with the increasing normal stress, undulation angle as well as the shear velocity with a decreasing tendency.



2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-300
Author(s):  
Yuxin Ban ◽  
Qiang Xie ◽  
Xiang Fu ◽  
Rini Asnida Abdullah ◽  
Jingjing Wang

Evidence indicate that the stability of rock mass is highly associated with the shear behaviours of jointed surfaces under the effect of in situ stress conditions. Understanding the shear failure mechanism of jointed surface has great significance for tunneling and drilling engineering. Direct shear tests were conducted on jointed rock-like specimens to investigate the influence of joint roughness and normal stress on shear failure characteristics. In the present study, regular triangular sawtooth was produced to simulate different asperities. Based on the direct shear test, the specimens exhibited four types of failure modes: damage tend to occur on the sawtooth tips under low normal stress; whereas damage occurred on a large scale under high normal stress; a localized region of the sawtooth was worn when the dilation angle was small; meanwhile the sawtooth tips or base were cut off when the dilation angle was large. In addition, Acoustic Emission (AE) technology was adopted to synchronously monitor the development of cracks during testing. Further attempt has been carried out to simulate the crack initiation, propagation and coalescence using Particle Flow Code (PFC). The numerical model has successfully verified and explained the crack behaviors determined by the shear failure mechanism in the physical test. Additionally, the irregular profile was introduced in the PFC, it was found that the failure behavior in sawtooth profile has established a good conclusion to fully understand the failure mechanism in the irregular profile. This work can provide some reference for evaluating the behavior of underground engineering composed of jointed rock masses during the shearing.



PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. e0252050
Author(s):  
M. Yahya Al-Fasih ◽  
M. E. Mohamad ◽  
I. S. Ibrahim ◽  
Y. Ahmad ◽  
M. A. Mohd Ariffin ◽  
...  

Effects of different surface textures on the interface shear strength, interface slip, and failure modes of the concrete-to-concrete bond are examined through finite element numerical model and experimental methods in the presence of the horizontal load with ‘push-off’ technique under different normal stresses. Three different surface textures are considered; smooth, indented, and transversely roughened to finish the top surfaces of the concrete bases. In the three-dimensional modeling via the ABAQUS solver, the Cohesive Zone Model (CZM) is used to simulate the interface shear failure. It is observed that the interface shear strength increases with the applied normal stress. The transversely roughened surface achieves the highest interface shear strength compared with those finished with the indented and smooth approaches. The smooth and indented surfaces are controlled by the adhesive failure mode while the transversely roughened surface is dominated by the cohesive failure mode. Also, it is observed that the CZM approach can accurately model the interface shear failure with 3–29% differences between the modeled and the experimental test findings.



2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (16) ◽  
pp. 1850196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qinyou Yang ◽  
Zailin Yang ◽  
Yong Yang ◽  
Guowei Zhang ◽  
Yu Zhang

Single crystal copper ellipsoidal nanoshells under outer normal tensile loadings are investigated by the molecular dynamics method. Normal stress and Mises stress are introduced to describe the mechanical properties. The uniform thickness nanoshells, the variable thickness nanoshells and the variable radius nanoshells are simulated to elucidate the effect of thickness on yielding behaviors and other mechanical properties. Potential energies, stresses and dislocations of nanoshells are discussed in the paper. The dislocations of these nanoshells form an octagon or that with an external quadrangle. The variable thickness nanoshells break this shape slightly. The potential energies of nanoshells have stable stages and then increase. The outer normal stresses and Mises stresses of different models differ from eath other. The thickness of nanoshells affects the elastic stage and the variable thickness nanoshell has different mechanical properties with others. When the radiuses of nanoshells with the same thickness are different, their dislocation shapes are the pressed octagon. Thier normal yield stresses are different, but their Mises yield stress are same. Also, the outer shape determines the trend of curves. The structure of a sphere is steadier than that of an ellipsoid.



2016 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 31-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.M. Al-Mukhtar

The engineering parts joining by the spot welding require acceptable properties to survive the loading conditions XE "temperature". Several studies show that the welding variables have an effect on the properties of spot nugget XE "nugget" and on the future cracking. This review summarizes the resistance spot welding process (RSW). It introduces the basic spot welding principles, experiments XE"experiments" , limitation and defects XE "defects". The new concepts and awareness were presented. The results from the series of scientific works and literature are discussed. The metal’s weldability, XE "spotweldability" strength, XE"strength" and fracture are the main topics in several structural analysis. The welding variables effect on the mechanical properties and performance XE "mechanicalproperties" of the structures is the key analysis. In general, the increasing of the heat input by adjusting the current, time, and pressure producing higher weld area in turn enhance the toughness. However, by increasing the weld area, the defects and cracking tend to appear. Hence, a desired weld size with the mechanical properties is required. The nugget fracture mode is changing from plug or button tearing to shear failure mode depending on the weld properties. The crack grows either from the internal defects or around the nugget.



BioResources ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1927-1944 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tengteng Zheng ◽  
Yanpeng Cheng ◽  
Shuai Li ◽  
Yan Zhang ◽  
Yingcheng Hu

In this study, a wood-based X-type lattice sandwich structure was fabricated by an insertion glue method using medium density fiberboard (MDF) and plywood as panels. Birch was used for the core. The mechanical properties and failure modes of the wood-based X-type lattice sandwich structure were investigated by an out-of-plane compressive test, a short beam shear test, and their matching analytical models. The out-of-plane compressive test and the compression analytical model showed that the failure mode of the plywood and birch combination was mainly shear failure in the core. The cores were broken or had sliding surfaces, while the failure mode of the MDF and birch combination was mainly shear failure of the core at both ends. Although the compression properties of the MDF and birch combination were better, the specific strength and modulus of the plywood and birch combination was larger, which align with the characteristics of lightweight and strong strength. The failure mode of the plywood and birch combination was delamination at both ends of the panel or core breakage, which indicated that this combination had better short beam shear properties. The theoretical models of the compressive /short beam shear properties were in good agreement with experimental results obtained for the plywood and birch combination.



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