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Modeling or rock slope stability and rockburst by the rock failure process analysis (RFPA) method

  • Tang, Chun'an;Tang, Shibin
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Rock Mechanics Conference
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    • 2011.09a
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    • pp.89-97
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    • 2011
  • Brittle failure of rock is a classical rock mechanics problem. Rock failure not only involves initiation and propagation of single crack, but also is a complex problem associated with initiation, propagation and coalescence of many cracks. As the most important feature of rock material properties is the heterogeneity, the Weibull statistical distribution is employed in the rock failure process analysis (RFPA) method to describe the heterogeneity in rock properties. In this paper, the applications of the RFPA method in geotechnical engineering and rockburst modeling are introduced with emphasis, which can provide some references for relevant researches.

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Natural Element Analysis on Micro-cracking Behavior of Brittle Solids (취성 재료의 마이크로 크랙킹 거동에 관한 자연요소해석)

  • Kang, Sung-Soo
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.30 no.6
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    • pp.724-730
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    • 2006
  • Fracture behavior of brittle solids is closely related to microcracking. A meso-scale analysis method using the natural element method is proposed for the analysis of brittle microcracking solids. The microcracking is assumed to occur along Voronoi edges in the Voronoi diagram generated using the nodal points as the generators. The mechanical effect of microcracks is considered by controlling the material constants in the neighborhood of the microcracks. The meso-analysis method is applied to the simulation of the microcracking behaviors of brittle solids subjected to tensile macrostress. The method is also applied to the analysis of the propagation of a macrocrack accompanied by the coalescence with microcracks formed near the macrocrack-tip.

Stochastic Fatigue Crack Propagation, SFCP (확률론적 피로균열진전)

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    • Bulletin of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.23-27
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    • 1993
  • 현재까지 SFCP 해석법은 기초단계에 있으며, 아직도 정립된 방법이 없는 것이 사실이다. 따라서, 이 분야에는 많은 개선을 필요로 하고 있다. 이와 같은 개선은 이론적인 연구뿐만이 아니라, 실험적인 연구가 바탕이 되어야 라며, 동시에SFCP에 영향을 주는 초기균열의 변동성, 하중의 변동성 등을 정확한 모델링 방법에 대한 연구가 병행되어야 한다. 그리고 더 나아가서 실제 구 조물에서 피로파괴에 영향을 주는 중요한 요소인 잔류응력, 부식 등의 고려하는 방법에 관한 연구가 수행 되어져야 할 것이다. 또한, 지금까지의 연구가 주로 구조부재에 하나의 균열이 존 재한다는 가정을 내포하고 있는데, 실구조물에 적용하기 위해서는 여러개의 균열이 동시에 존 재하는 경우에 대한 연구와 균열이 성장하면서 합체(coalescence)하는 경우에 대한 연구도 수행 되어야 한다. 이와 같은 연구가 꾸준히 진행되어 소기의 성과를 거둠으로써, 구조물의 피로파괴 확률을 정확하게 추정할 수 있을 것이며, 이에 따라 합리적인 설계가 가능해질 것이다.

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Assessment of Steam Generator Tubes with Multiple Axial Through-Wall Cracks (축방향 다중관통균열이 존재하는 증기발생기 세관 평가법)

  • Moon, Seong-In;Chang, Yoon-Suk;Kim, Young-Jin;Lee, Jin-Ho;Song, Myung-Ho;Choi, Young-Hwan
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.28 no.11
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    • pp.1741-1751
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    • 2004
  • It is commonly requested that the steam generator tubes wall-thinned in excess of 40% should be plugged. However, the plugging criterion is known to be too conservative for some locations and types of defects and its application is limited to a single crack in spite of the fact that the occurrence of multiple through-wall cracks is more common in general. The objective of this research is to propose the optimum failure prediction models for two adjacent through-wall cracks in steam generator tubes. The conservatism of the present plugging criteria was reviewed using the existing failure prediction models for a single crack, and six new failure prediction models for multiple through-wall cracks have been introduced. Then, in order to determine the optimum ones among these new local or global failure prediction models, a series of plastic collapse tests and corresponding finite element analyses for two adjacent through-wall cracks in thin plate were carried out. Thereby, the reaction force model, plastic zone contact model and COD (Crack-Opening Displacement) base model were selected as the optimum ones for assessment of steam generator tubes with multiple through-wall cracks. The selected optimum failure prediction models, finally, were used to estimate the coalescence pressure of two adjacent through-wall cracks in steam generator tubes.

Optimum Failure Prediction Model of Steam Generator Tube with Two Parallel Axial Through-Wall Cracks (두개의 평행한 축방향 관통균열이 존재하는 증기발생기 세관의 최적 파손예측모델)

  • Lee, Jin-Ho;Song, Myung-Ho;Choi, Young-Hwan;Kim, Nak-Cheol;Moon, Seong-In;Kim, Young-Jin
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.1186-1191
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    • 2003
  • The 40% of wall criterion, which is generally used for the plugging of steam generator tubes, may be applied only to a single crack. In the previous study, a total of 9 failure models were introduced to estimate the local failure of the ligament between cracks and the optimum coalescence model of multiple collinear cracks was determined among these models. It is, however, known that parallel axial cracks are more frequently detected during an in-service inspection than collinear axial cracks. The objective of this study is to determine the plastic collapse model which can be applied to the steam generator tube containing two parallel axial through-wall cracks. Nine previously proposed local failure models were selected as the candidates. Subsequently interaction effects between two adjacent cracks were evaluated to screen them. Plastic collapse tests for the plate with two parallel through-wall cracks and finite element analyses were performed for the determination of the optimum plastic collapse model. By comparing the test results with the prediction results obtained from the candidate models, a plastic zone contact model was selected as an optimum model.

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INTERGRANULAR FAILURE ASSOCIATED WITH BOUNDARY SLIDING IN Pb-SN EUTECTIC SOLDERS USED FOR MICROELECTRONICS APPLICATIONS (Electronic Packaging에 쓰이는 공정 조성의 Pb-Sn Solders에서 Grain Boundary Sliding과 관련된 계면파괴현상)

  • Lee, Seong-Min
    • Korean Journal of Materials Research
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.334-338
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    • 1994
  • This report details the microscopic aspects of grain boundary cracking in Pb-Sn eutecticduring displacement-controlled mechanical tests performed over a range of low frequency ($10^{-3}-10^{-5}$/s)and moderate strain range (0.2 - 1 %) where is the most technologically relevant to solder jointssubjected to thermal cycling. It is shown that intergranular cracking begins with the appearance ofcrack-like features (CLF's), which can be seen due in part because they are associated with grainboundary sliding, and is able to be described by certain stages of isolated crack growth. In the initialstages CLF's are not ture cracks but instead what I shall call "proto-cracks" where grain boundarysliding begins to damage the gram boundary at the surface. At some point during the initiation stagesonce proto-cracks become ture cracks, they develop into isolated cracks and the growth of isolatedcracks is eventually accomplished by coalescence, resulting in 5 stages of cracking.ing in 5 stages of cracking.

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Fatigue Life Prediction for Multiple Surface Cracks in Finite Plates (복수표면균열을 갖는 구조요소의 피로수명 예측)

  • J.D. Kim;J.W. Lee;C.H. Hong
    • Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.75-86
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    • 1996
  • A fatigue life prediction program for multiple planar surface cracks in finite plates and T-fillet joints, based on linear elastic fracture mechanics was developed. This prediction technique include the crack coalescence, mutual interation and the stress intensity concentration effect in welded joints. Total of 44 cases were compared with lida's and Vosikovsky's experimental results and it was found that the present method was a reasonable tool for the predictioin of fatigue life.

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Failure analysis of prestressing steel wires

  • Toribio, J.;Valiente, A.
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.1 no.4
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    • pp.411-426
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    • 2001
  • This paper treats the failure analysis of prestressing steel wires with different kinds of localised damage in the form of a surface defect (crack or notch) or as a mechanical action (transverse loads). From the microscopical point of view, the micromechanisms of fracture are shear dimples (associated with localised plasticity) in the case of the transverse loads and cleavage-like (related to a weakest-link fracture micromechanism) in the case of cracked wires. In the notched geometries the microscopic modes of fracture range from the ductile micro-void coalescence to the brittle cleavage, depending on the stress triaxiality in the vicinity of the notch tip. From the macroscopical point of view, fracture criteria are proposed as design criteria in damage tolerance analyses. The transverse load situation is solved by using an upper bound theorem of limit analysis in plasticity. The case of the cracked wire may be treated using fracture criteria in the framework of linear elastic fracture mechanics on the basis of a previous finite element computation of the stress intensity factor in the cracked cylinder. Notched geometries require the use of elastic-plastic fracture mechanics and numerical analysis of the stress-strain state at the failure situation. A fracture criterion is formulated on the basis of the critical value of the effective or equivalent stress in the Von Mises sense.

Three-dimensional numerical modeling of effect of bedding layer on the tensile failure behavior in hollow disc models using Particle Flow Code (PFC3D)

  • Sarfarazi, Vahab;Haeri, Hadi
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.68 no.5
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    • pp.537-547
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    • 2018
  • This research presents the effect of anisotropy of the hollow disc mode under Brazilian test using PFC3D. The Brazilian tensile strength test was performed on the hollow disc specimens containing the bedding layers and then these specimens were numerically modeled by using the two dimensional discrete element code (PFC3D) to calibrate this computer code for the simulation of the cracks propagation and cracks coalescence in the anisotropic bedded rocks. The thickness of each layer within the specimens varied as 5 mm, 10 mm and 20 mm and the layers angles were changed as $0^{\circ}$, $25^{\circ}$, $50^{\circ}$, $75^{\circ}$ and $90^{\circ}$. The diameter of internal hole was taken as 15 mm and the loading rate during the testing process kept as 0.016 mm/s. It has been shown that for layers angles below $25^{\circ}$ the tensile cracks produce in between the layers and extend toward the model boundary till interact and break the specimen. The failure process of the specimen may enhance as the layer angle increases so that the Brazilian tensile strength reaches to its minimum value when the bedding layers is between $50^{\circ}$ and $75^{\circ}$ but its value reaches to maximum at a layer angle of $90^{\circ}$. The number of tensile cracks decreases as the layers thickness increases and with increasing the layers angle, less layer mobilize in the failure process.

Simulation study on effects of loading rate on uniaxial compression failure of composite rock-coal layer

  • Chen, Shao J.;Yin, Da W.;Jiang, N.;Wang, F.;Guo, Wei J.
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.333-342
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    • 2019
  • Geological dynamic hazards during coal mining can be caused by the failure of a composite system consisting of roof rock and coal layers, subject to different loading rates due to different advancing velocities in the working face. In this paper, the uniaxial compression test simulations on the composite rock-coal layers were performed using $PFC^{2D}$ software and especially the effects of loading rate on the stress-strain behavior, strength characteristics and crack nucleation, propagation and coalescence in a composite layer were analyzed. In addition, considering the composite layer, the mechanisms for the advanced bore decompression in coal to prevent the geological dynamic hazards at a rapid advancing velocity of working face were explored. The uniaxial compressive strength and peak strain are found to increase with the increase of loading rate. After post-peak point, the stress-strain curve shows a steep stepped drop at a low loading rate, while the stress-strain curve exhibits a slowly progressive decrease at a high loading rate. The cracking mainly occurs within coal, and no apparent cracking is observed for rock. While at a high loading rate, the rock near the bedding plane is damaged by rapid crack propagation in coal. The cracking pattern is not a single shear zone, but exhibits as two simultaneously propagating shear zones in a "X" shape. Following this, the coal breaks into many pieces and the fragment size and number increase with loading rate. Whereas a low loading rate promotes the development of tensile crack, the failure pattern shows a V-shaped hybrid shear and tensile failure. The shear failure becomes dominant with an increasing loading rate. Meanwhile, with the increase of loading rate, the width of the main shear failure zone increases. Moreover, the advanced bore decompression changes the physical property and energy accumulation conditions of the composite layer, which increases the strain energy dissipation, and the occurrence possibility of geological dynamic hazards is reduced at a rapid advancing velocity of working face.