Abstract
Red sandstone samples with V-shaped intersecting double-cracks are used as the tested materials. The strength, failure and crack evolution of intersecting cracked rock samples under shear load are studied by laboratory tests and numerical simulation. A virtual-bond method based smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) algorithm is developed and used to simulate the fracture of V-shape cracked sandstone samples under direct shear. It overcomes the disadvantages of traditional SPH algorithm for calculating discontinuous problems by introducing the particle damage coefficient. The results shows that intersecting crack distance and angle have an influence on peak stress, crack initiation stress, crack coalescence mode, and failure mode. The crack evolution and stress field interaction of V-shape cracked rock under shear is systematically explained by the SPH algorithm.
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