Abstract
Fracture characteristics are the basis of silty clay fracture research, and its quantitative description is helpful to explore the engineering properties of silty clay. The silty clay samples with different moisture contents and different aspect ratios were prepared by the controlled variable method for the drying shrinkage test. The crack image processing and crack feature extraction were performed by PS and IPP software, and the relationship between the crack propagation characteristic parameters and the change in humidity and sample moisture content during drying shrinkage were analyzed to explore the crack development law. The results show that under the continuous action of the environment, cracks were generated at the initial high temperature (46 °C). When the temperature changed from a high temperature (46 °C) to a low temperature (27 °C), the moisture content decreased faster, and the crack developed rapidly. Later, from low temperature (12 °C) to high temperature (46 °C), the water content and crack parameters remained basically unchanged; the cracks of the samples with a high moisture content appeared early, developed rapidly, and damaged seriously. When the aspect ratio was 6:1, the crack developed vertically, and when the aspect ratio was less than 6:1, the secondary crack was about 90° from the upper crack.
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