- Title
- Water-weakening effects on the mechanical behavior of different rock types: Phenomena and mechanisms
- Creator
- Cai, Xin; Zhou, Zilong; Liu, Kewei; Du, Xueming; Zang, Haizhi
- Relation
- Applied Sciences Vol. 9, Issue 20, no. 4450
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app9204450
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- The presence of water strongly affects rock properties and would be related to a series of geological disasters. To understand water saturation effects on the mechanical behavior of different rock types and interpret the underlying mechanisms of differences in water sensitivity, three kinds of rocks, namely sandstone, granite and marble, were selected for tests. Uniaxial compression experiments were conducted on specimens under oven-dried and water-saturated conditions. Acoustic emission (AE) techniques were also applied to monitor and record AE signals during tests. Experimental results reveal that water weakens the mechanical parameters of the three tested rocks, such as uniaxial compressive strength (UCS), elastic modulus and critical strain. The sandstone undergoes the greatest weakening with the addition of pore water, the mechanical properties of the granite exhibit relatively minor reductions, while the marble is the least affected by water saturation. The water-weakening degree of rock properties depends on the porosity as well as the mineralogy, especially the proportion of quartz and swelling clays. Moreover, after water saturation, the failure pattern of the sandstone and the granite tends to transform into the shear-dominant mode from the tensile one in dry state, probably due to frictional reduction. However, the water presence does not change the failure mode of the marble.
- Subject
- water weakening; failure type; mineral composition; quartz hydrolysis; pore pressure; frictional reduction; SDG 11; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1457213
- Identifier
- uon:45320
- Identifier
- ISSN:2076-3417
- Rights
- © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Language
- eng
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