Abstract
The investigation of rock damage behaviour is an important requirement for ensuring stability control and safety prediction in rock engineering. In this study, based on the linear energy dissipation law and energy dissipation coefficient, a theoretical method is introduced for characterising the damage of intact rocks under uniaxial compression conditions. The existing uniaxial compression test data of 14 kinds of rock materials (including 6 types of granite , 4 types of sandstone , 2 types of marble, 1 type of slate, and 1 type of limestone) were used to verify the effectiveness of the damage characterization method. The results indicate that the damage evolution process of rocks under uniaxial compression can be fully expressed by the proposed theoretical damage characterisation method, and the damage variable exhibits a quadratic functional relationship with the loading stress level. Moreover, with the linear energy storage law serving as a theoretical basis, the peak dissipated strain energy in a rock damage expression under uniaxial compression can be accurately calculated. The new theoretical damage characterisation method overcomes the shortcomings of conventional damage characterisation methods (e.g. estimating the peak dissipated strain energy through a hypothesis), and provides a new means for analysing rock damage from an energy viewpoint.
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