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博士生导师
硕士生导师
主要任职:President of international exchange committee of the Chinese Society of Rock Mechanics and Engineering CSRME
其他任职:国际岩石力学与岩石工程学会(ISRM)中国国家小组副主席
性别:男
毕业院校:东北大学
学位:博士
所在单位:土木工程系
办公地点:综合实验四号楼330
联系方式:tca@mail.neu.edu.cn
Influence of pore pressure on tensile fracture growth in rocks: a new explanation based on numerical testing
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论文类型:期刊论文
发表时间:2015-09-01
发表刊物:FRONTIERS OF EARTH SCIENCE
收录刊物:SCIE、Scopus
卷号:9
期号:3
页面范围:412-426
ISSN号:2095-0195
关键字:pore pressure; effective stress; heterogeneous; numerical simulation; fracture growth; rock
摘要:The diffusion of pore fluid pressures may create both spatial and temporal effective stress gradients that influence or control the development and evolution of fractures within rock masses. To better understand the controls on fracturing behavior, numerical simulations are performed using a progressive fracture modeling approach that shares many of the same natural kinematic features in rocks, such as fracture growth, nucleation, and termination. First, the pinch-off breaking test is numerically performed to investigate the tensile failure of a rock specimen in a uniform pore pressure field. In this numerical simulation, both mechanical and hydrological properties of a suite of rocks are measured under simulated laboratory conditions. The complete tensional failure process of the rock specimen under pore pressure was reproduced. Second, a double-notched specimen is numerically extended to investigate how the water flow direction or pore pressure gradient influences the fracture growth. An exhaustive sensitivity study is conducted that examines the effects of varying both hydrological and mechanical boundary conditions. The simulation results indicate that local fluid pressure gradients strongly influence the state of stress in the solids and, thereby, fracture growth. Fracture and strength behavior is influenced not only by the pore pressure magnitude on a local scale around the fracture tip, but also by the orientation and distribution of pore pressure gradients on a global scale. Increasing the fracture growth rate increases the local model permeability and decreases the sample strength. The results of this study may provide useful information concerning the degree of hydrological and mechanical coupling action under geologic conditions.