A modified HJC model for geological materials subjected to blasting loadings

Abstract

In this paper, a modified HJC model is proposed to address the problem that the HJC model cannot simulate tensile damage cracks. The modified HJC model modifies the strength surface, strain rate effect and damage model of the original HJC model, respectively. The modified model is embedded in LS-DYNA software for single and multiple finite element validation. The effects of different parameters on the modified HJC model stress–strain curves are analyzed in the single finite element validation. In multiple finite element verification, uniaxial and triaxial compression experiments, Brazilian disc splitting experiments, SHPB dynamic compression experiments, and SHPB dynamic splitting experiments are performed. The results of single and multiple finite element numerical validation illustrate that the modified HJC model can well simulate the pre-peak and post-peak nonlinear mechanical behaviors of geological materials such as rocks and concrete. Compared with the HJC model, the damage pattern of the modified HJC model is closer to the real damage pattern. For the strain rate effect, the modified HJC model can reflect the real compressive strain rate effect and improve the sensitivity of tensile strength to strain rate. The results of the numerical simulation of the blasting funnel illustrate that: the modified HJC model can simulate explosive tensile cracking well and can explain the formation mechanism of blasting funnel due to the distinction between tensile and compressive meridian surfaces and the addition of tensile damage. The modified HJC model is more applicable to the numerical simulation of engineering blasting.