Experimental study on failure precursory characteristics and moisture content effect of pre-cracked rocks under graded cyclic loading and unloading

Abstract

It is important to analyze the damage evolution process of surrounding rock under different water content for the stability of engineering rock mass. Based on digital speckle correlation (DSCM), acoustic emission (AE) and electromagnetic radiation (EMR), uniaxial hierarchical cyclic loading and unloading tests were carried out on sandstones with different fracture numbers under dry, natural and saturated water content, to explore the fracture propagation, failure precursor characteristics and damage response mechanism under the influence of water content effect. The results show that with the increase of water content, the peak stress and crack initiation stress decrease gradually, and the decreases are 15.28%-21.11% and 17.64%-23.04%, respectively. The peak strain and crack initiation strain increase gradually, and the increases are 19.85%-44.53% and 19.15%-41.94%, respectively. The precracked rock with different water content is mainly characterized by tensile failure at different loading stages. However, with the increase of water content, the proportion of shear cracks gradually increases, while acoustic emission events gradually decrease, the dissipative energy and energy storage limits of the rock under peak load gradually decrease, and the charge signal increases significantly, which is because the lubrication effect of water reduces the friction coefficient between crack surfaces.

Keywords

Damage mechanisms / Pre-cracked rocks / Crack propagation / Water-rock interaction / Graded cyclic loading and unloading

Acknowledgements

This work was financially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52304136), Young Talent of Lifting Engineering for Science and Technology in Shandong, China (No. SDAST2024QTA060), and Key Project of Research and Development in Liaocheng (No. 2023YD02).

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