Failure Characteristics of Rock-Like Material with Multi-Fissures under Uniaxial Compression

Abstract

Mechanical behavior and failure mode of jointed rock is one of the significant researches in rock mechanics field. In this work, combined with similar material testing and discrete element numerical method(PFC) to investigate the mechanical behavior and failure mode of the rock-like materials with multi-fissures. The numerical analyses agree well with physical experimentation. It is found that, fissures will weaken the strength of the rock-like material, and when the angle of the fissures is about 25°, the strength of the material reaches a minimum value. The weakening effect of fissure on specimen strength would decrease gradually along with the increase of fissure angle. Compared with the effects of fissure angle, the influence of cracks number to the strength is relatively small. The fissure inclination angle was the main factor of the failure modes. With the different fissure inclination angles, the crack tip of Micro-cracks presents different developmental pattern. However, the influence of fissure distribution density on the failure mode mainly reflects at the fracture penetration mode.