Experimental investigations on mechanical performance of rocks under fatigue loads and biaxial confinements

Abstract

In this research, a series of biaxial compression and biaxial fatigue tests were conducted to investigate the mechanical behaviors of marble and sandstone under biaxial confinements. Experimental results demonstrate that the biaxial compressive strength of rocks under biaxial compression increases firstly, and subsequently decreases with increase of the intermediate principal stress. The fatigue failure characteristics of the rocks in biaxial fatigue tests are functions of the peak value of fatigue loads, the intermediate principal stress and the rock lithology. With the increase of the peak values of fatigue loads, the fatigue lives of rocks decrease. The intermediate principal stress strengthens the resistance ability of rocks to fatigue loads except considering the strength increasing under biaxial confinements. The fatigue lives of rocks increase with the increase of the intermediate principal stress under the same ratio of the fatigue load and their biaxial compressive strength. The acoustic emission (AE) and fragments studies showed that the sandstone has higher ability to resist the fatigue loads compared to the marble, and the marble generated a greater number of smaller fragments after fatigue failure compared to the sandstone. So, it can be inferred that the rock breaking efficiency and rock burst is higher or severer induced by fatigue loading than that induced by monotonous quasi-static loading, especially for hard rocks.

Keywords

biaxial confinements / fatigue loading / acoustic emission / fragments / intermediate principal stress

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