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A Three-Dimensional Failure Criterion for Hard Rocks Under True Triaxial Compression

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Notes

  1. Hard rock usually refers to brittle rock with a uniaxial compressive strength over 60 MPa, such as most igneous and metamorphic rocks and well-indurated sedimentary rocks.

Abbreviations

σ1,σ2, and σ3 :

Maximum, intermediate, and minimum principal stresses, respectively

σ t :

Uniaxial tensile strength

σ c :

Uniaxial compressive strength

τoct and σoct :

Octahedral shear stress and octahedral normal stress

σ m,2 :

Mean effective normal stress

b :

Intermediate principal stress coefficient

θ σ :

Lode angle

g(θσ):

Deviatoric function

φ b :

Friction angle with different b values

φ 0 :

Friction angle at b = 0

c 0 :

Cohesion at b = 0

s :

Strength-difference coefficient between generalized triaxial extension and generalized triaxial compression

t :

Material constant controlling the maximum strength-increasing ratio affected by σ2

δ :

Relative error between the theoretical and testing results

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Acknowledgements

The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51621006, No. 51839003). The authors thank Professor Resat Ulusay, Professor Ergun Tuncay, Mr. Gaolei Song, and Mr. Zhi Zheng for their help with the true triaxial testing of the rock samples.

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    Xia-Ting Feng, Rui Kong, Chengxiang Yang, Xiwei Zhang, Qiang Han & Gang Wang

  2. State Key Laboratory of Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, China

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Feng, XT., Kong, R., Yang, C. et al. A Three-Dimensional Failure Criterion for Hard Rocks Under True Triaxial Compression. Rock Mech Rock Eng 53, 103–111 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-019-01903-8

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