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A Boundary Element Analysis for Damage and Failure Process of Brittle Rock using ERACOD  

Baotang Shen (FRACOM 1td., Finland, CSIR)
Ove Stephansson (Geo Forschungs Zentrum)
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Tunnel and Underground Space / v.14, no.4, 2004 , pp. 248-260 More about this Journal
Abstract
Damage in brittle rock due to stress increase starts from initiation of microcracks, and then results in failure by forming macro failure planes due to propagation and coalescence of these discrete cracks. Conventionally, continuum approaches using macro-failure criteria or a number of elasto-plastic models have been major solution to implement rock damage and failure. However, actual brittle failure processes can be better described in phenomenological approach if initiation and propagation of discrete fractures are explicitly considered. This study presents damage and failure process of rock using a boundary element code, FRACOD, which has been developed to model fracturing process of rocks. Through a series of numerical uniaxial compressive tests, the feasibility of the developed model was verified, and realistic rock failure process was reproduced considering scale effects in rocks. In addition, the fracturing process and the corresponding rock damage in the vicinity of deep shaft in rock mass were presented as an application of this approach. This approach will be expected to contribute to finding better engineering solutions for the analysis of stability problems in brittle rock masses.
Keywords
Brittle fracture; Rock damage; Boundary element method; Fracture propagation; Numerical analysis;
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