| Computers and Concrete Volume 18, Number 2, August 2016, pages 235-266 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12989/cac.2016.18.2.235 | |
A review of experimental and numerical investigations
about crack propagation | |
Vahab Sarfarazi and Hadi Haeri
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| Abstract [Buy Article] | |
| A rock mass containing non-persistent joints can only fail if the joints propagate and coalesce through an intact rock bridge. Shear strength of rock mass containing non-persistent joints is highly affected by the both, mechanical behavior and geometrical configuration of non-persistent joints located in a rock mass. Existence of rock joints and rock bridges are the most important factors complicating mechanical responses of a rock mass to stress loading. The joint-bridge interaction and bridge failure dominates mechanical behavior of jointed rock masses and the stability of rock excavations.The purpose of this review paper is to present techniques, progresses and the likely future development directions in experimental and numerical modelling of a non-persistent joint failure behaviour. Such investigation is essential to study the fundamental failures occurring in a rock bridge, for assessing anticipated and actual performances of the structures built on or in rock masses. This paper is divided into two sections. In the first part, experimental investigations have been represented followed by a summarized numerical modelling. Experimental results showed failure mechanism of a rock bridge under different loading conditions. Also effects of the number of non-persistent joints, angle between joint and a rock bridge, lengths of the rock bridge and the joint were investigated on the rock bridge failure behaviour. Numerical simulation results are used to validate experimental outputs. | |
| Key Words | |
| non-persistent joint; experimental test; numerical simulation | |
| Address | |
| Vahab Sarfarazi: Department of Mining Engineering, Hamedan University of Technology, Hamedan, Iran Hadi Haeri: Department of Mining Engineering, Bafgh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bafgh, Iran | |
