Joint Inclination Effect on Strength, Stress-Strain Curve and Strain Localization of Rock in Plane Strain Compression

Author(s):  
X.B. Wang
2005 ◽  
Vol 495-497 ◽  
pp. 69-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
X.B. Wang

Peak strength, mechanical behavior, and shear band (SB) of anisotropic jointed rock (JR) were modeled by Fast Lagrangian Analysis of Continua (FLAC). The failure criterion of rock was a composite Mohr-Coulomb criterion with tension cut-off and the post-peak constitutive relation was linear strain-softening. An inclined joint was treated as square elements of ideal plastic material beyond the peak strength. A FISH function was written to find automatically elements in the joint. For the lower or higher joint inclination (JI), the higher peak strength and more apparent strain-softening behavior are observed; the failure of JR is due to the slip along the joint and the new generated SBs initiated at joint’s two ends. For the lower JI, the slope of softening branch of stress-strain curve is not concerned with JI since the new and longer SBs’s inclination is not dependent on JI, as can be qualitatively explained by previous analytical solution of post-peak slope of stress-strain curve for rock specimen subjected to shear failure in uniaxial compression based on gradient-dependent plasticity. For the higher JI, the post-peak stress-strain curve becomes steeper as JI increases since the contribution of the new SBs undergoing strain-softening behavior to axial strain of JR increases with JI. For the moderate JI, the lower strength and ideal plastic behavior beyond the elastic stage are found, reflecting that the inclined joint governs the deformation of JR. The present numerical prediction on anisotropic peak strength in plane strain compression qualitatively agrees with triaxial experimental tests of many kinds of rocks. Comparison of the present numerical prediction on JI corresponding to the minimum peak strength of JR and the oversimplified theoretical result by Jaeger shows that Jaeger’s formula has overestimated the value of JI.


2007 ◽  
Vol 353-358 ◽  
pp. 1129-1132 ◽  
Author(s):  
X.B. Wang

Effects of joint width (JW) on the macroscopic stress-strain curve, the failure process and mode of jointed rock specimen (JRS) in plane strain compression are modeled by use of FLAC. The failure criterion of intact rock outside the inclined joint is a composite Mohr-Coulomb criterion with tension cut-off and the linear strain-softening post-peak constitutive relation is adopted. The joint is treated as quadrate elements of ideal plastic material beyond the peak strength. A written FISH function is used to automatically find elements in the joint. Numerical results show that the peak strength of JRS depends on JW and is lower than that of intact rock specimen without joint. For JRS, the shear strains are concentrated into the joint or the new generated shear bands (NGSBs); the peak strength decreases with an increase of JW. At lower or higher joint inclination angle (JIA), the failure mode and pattern of NGSBs are not related to JW. The post-peak response becomes ductile at wider JW and higher JIA. The post-peak slope of stress-strain curve at lower JIA is not dependent on JW since the width and inclination angle of NGSBs are not affected by JW.


2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (9) ◽  
pp. 2360-2370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Xiang ◽  
X. Chen ◽  
J.J. Vlassak

The plane-strain bulge test is a powerful new technique for measuring the mechanical properties of thin films. In this technique, the stress–strain curve of a thin film is determined from the pressure-deflection behavior of a long rectangular membrane made of the film of interest. For a thin membrane in a state of plane strain, film stress and stain are distributed uniformly across the membrane width, and simple analytical formulae for stress and strain can be established. This makes the plane-strain bulge test ideal for studying the mechanical behavior of thin films in both the elastic and plastic regimes. Finite element analysis confirms that the plane-strain condition holds for rectangular membranes with aspect ratios greater than 4 and that the simple formulae are highly accurate for materials with strain-hardening exponents ranging from 0 to 0.5. The residual stress in the film mainly affects the elastic deflection of the membrane and changes the initial point of yield in the plane-strain stress–strain curve, but has little or no effect on further plastic deformation. The effect of the residual stress can be eliminated by converting the plane-strain curve into the equivalent uniaxial stress–strain relationship using effective stress and strain. As an example, the technique was applied to an electroplated Cu film. Si micromachining was used to fabricate freestanding Cu membranes. Typical experimental results for the Cu film are presented. The data analysis is in good agreement with finite element calculations.


SIMULATION ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 003754972110315
Author(s):  
B Girinath ◽  
N Siva Shanmugam

The present study deals with the extended version of our previous research work. In this article, for predicting the entire weld bead geometry and engineering stress–strain curve of the cold metal transfer (CMT) weldment, a MATLAB based application window (second version) is developed with certain modifications. In the first version, for predicting the entire weld bead geometry, apart from weld bead characteristics, x and y coordinates (24 from each) of the extracted points are considered. Finally, in the first version, 53 output values (five for weld bead characteristics and 48 for x and y coordinates) are predicted using both multiple regression analysis (MRA) and adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) technique to get an idea related to the complete weld bead geometry without performing the actual welding process. The obtained weld bead shapes using both the techniques are compared with the experimentally obtained bead shapes. Based on the results obtained from the first version and the knowledge acquired from literature, the complete shape of weld bead obtained using ANFIS is in good agreement with the experimentally obtained weld bead shape. This motivated us to adopt a hybrid technique known as ANFIS (combined artificial neural network and fuzzy features) alone in this paper for predicting the weld bead shape and engineering stress–strain curve of the welded joint. In the present study, an attempt is made to evaluate the accuracy of the prediction when the number of trials is reduced to half and increasing the number of data points from the macrograph to twice. Complete weld bead geometry and the engineering stress–strain curves were predicted against the input welding parameters (welding current and welding speed), fed by the user in the MATLAB application window. Finally, the entire weld bead geometries were predicted by both the first and the second version are compared and validated with the experimentally obtained weld bead shapes. The similar procedure was followed for predicting the engineering stress–strain curve to compare with experimental outcomes.


2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 318-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana Borodulina ◽  
Artem Kulachenko ◽  
Mikael Nygårds ◽  
Sylvain Galland

Abstract We have investigated a relation between micromechanical processes and the stress-strain curve of a dry fiber network during tensile loading. By using a detailed particle-level simulation tool we investigate, among other things, the impact of “non-traditional” bonding parameters, such as compliance of bonding regions, work of separation and the actual number of effective bonds. This is probably the first three-dimensional model which is capable of simulating the fracture process of paper accounting for nonlinearities at the fiber level and bond failures. The failure behavior of the network considered in the study could be changed significantly by relatively small changes in bond strength, as compared to the scatter in bonding data found in the literature. We have identified that compliance of the bonding regions has a significant impact on network strength. By comparing networks with weak and strong bonds, we concluded that large local strains are the precursors of bond failures and not the other way around.


1966 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 331-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
T C Hsu

Three different definitions of the yield point have been used in experimental work on the yield locus: proportional limit, proof strain and the ‘yield point’ by backward extrapolation. The theoretical implications of the ‘yield point’ by backward extrapolation are examined in an analysis of the loading and re-loading stress paths. It is shown, in connection with experimental results by Miastkowski and Szczepinski, that the proportional limit found by inspection is in fact a point located by backward extrapolation based on a small section of the stress-strain curve, near the elastic portion of the curve. The effect of different definitions of the yield point on the shape of the yield locus and some considerations for the choice between them are discussed.


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