河北工程大学毕业设计(论文)1FailurePropertiesofFracturedRockMassesasAnisotropicHomogenizedMediaIntroductionItiscommonlyacknowledgedthatrockmassesalwaysdisplaydiscontinuoussurfacesofvarioussizesandorientations,usuallyreferredtoasfracturesorjoints.Sincethelatterhavemuchpoorermechanicalcharacteristicsthantherockmaterial,theyplayadecisiveroleintheoverallbehaviorofrockstructures,whosedeformationaswellasfailurepatternsaremainlygovernedbythoseofthejoints.Itfollowsthat,fromageomechanicalengineeringstandpoint,designmethodsofstructuresinvolvingjointedrockmasses,mustabsolutelyaccountforsuch‘‘weakness’’surfacesintheiranalysis.Themoststraightforwardwayofdealingwiththissituationistotreatthejointedrockmassasanassemblageofpiecesofintactrockmaterialinmutualinteractionthroughtheseparatingjointinterfaces.Manydesign-orientedmethodsrelatingtothiskindofapproachhavebeendevelopedinthepastdecades,amongthem,thewell-known‘‘blocktheory,’’whichattemptstoidentifypoten-tiallyunstablelumpsofrockfromgeometricalandkinematicalconsiderations(GoodmanandShi1985;Warburton1987;Goodman1995).Oneshouldalsoquotethewidelyuseddistinctelementmethod,originatingfromtheworksofCundallandcoauthors(CundallandStrack1979;Cundall1988),whichmakesuseofanexplicitfinite-differencenumericalschemeforcomputingthedisplacementsoftheblocksconsideredasrigidordeformablebodies.Inthiscontext,attentionisprimarilyfocusedontheformulationofrealisticmodelsfordescribingthejointbehavior.Sincethepreviouslymentioneddirectapproachisbecominghighlycomplex,andthennumericallyuntractable,assoonasaverylargenumberofblocksisinvolved,itseemsadvisabletolookforalternativemethodssuchasthosederivedfromtheconceptofhomogenization.Actually,suchaconceptisalreadypartiallyconveyedinanempiricalfashionbythefamousHoekandBrown’scriterion(HoekandBrown1980;Hoek1983).Itstemsfromtheintuitiveideathatfromamacroscopicpointofview,arockmassintersectedbyaregularnetworkofjointsurfaces,maybeperceivedasahomogeneouscontinuum.Furthermore,owingtotheexistenceofjointpreferentialorientations,oneshouldexpectsuchahomogenizedmaterialtoexhibitanisotropicproperties.Theobjectiveofthepresentpaperistoderivearigorousformulationforthefailurecriterionofajointedrockmassasahomogenizedmedium,fromtheknowledgeofthejointsandrockmaterialrespectivecriteria.Intheparticularsituationwheretwomutuallyorthogonaljointsetsareconsidered,aclosed-formexpressionisobtained,givingclearevidenceoftherelatedstrengthanisotropy.Acomparisonisperformedonanillustrativeexamplebetweentheresultsproducedbythehomogenizationmethod,makinguseofthepreviouslydeterminedcriterion,andthoseobtainedbymeansofacomputercodebasedonthedistinctelementmethod.Itisshownthat,whilebothmethodsleadtoalmostidenticalresultsforadenselyfracturedrockmass,a‘‘size’’or‘‘scaleeffect’’isobservedinthecaseofalimitednumberofjoints.Thesecondpartofthepaperisthendevotedtoproposingamethodwhichattemptstocapturesuchascaleeffect,whilestilltakingadvantageofahomogenizationtechnique.Thisis河北工程大学毕业设计(论文)2achievedbyresortingtoamicropolarorCosseratcontinuumdescriptionofthefracturedrockmass,throughthederivationofageneralizedmacroscopicfailureconditionexpressedintermsofstressesandcouplestresses.Theimplementationofthismodelisfinallyillustratedonasimpleexample,showinghowitmayactuallyaccountforsuchascaleeffect.ProblemStatementandPrincipleofHomogenizationApproachTheproblemunderconsiderationisthatofafoundation(bridgepierorabutment)restinguponafracturedbedrock(Fig.1),whosebearingcapacityneedstobeevaluatedfromtheknowledgeofthestrengthcapacitiesoftherockmatrixandthejointinterfaces.ThefailureconditionoftheformerwillbeexpressedthroughtheclassicalMohr-CoulombconditionexpressedbymeansofthecohesionmCandthefrictionanglem.Notethattensilestresseswillbecountedpositivethroughoutthepaper.Likewise,thejointswillbemodeledasplaneinterfaces(representedbylinesinthefigure’splane).Theirstrengthpropertiesaredescribedbymeansofaconditioninvolvingthestressvectorofcomponents(σ,τ)actingatanypointofthoseinterfacesAccordingtotheyielddesign(orlimitanalysis)reasoning,theabovestructurewillremainsafeunderagivenverticalloadQ(forceperunitlengthalongtheOzaxis),ifonecanexhibitthroughouttherockmassastressdistributionwhichsatisfiestheequilibriumequationsalongwiththestressboundaryconditions,whilecomplyingwiththestrengthrequirementexpressedatanypointofthestructure.ThisproblemamountstoevaluatingtheultimateloadQ﹢beyondwhichfailurewilloccur,orequivalentlywithinwhichitsstabilityisensured.Duetothestrongheterogeneityofthejointedrockmass,insurmountabledifficultiesarelikelytoarisewhentryingtoimplementtheabovereasoningdirectly.Asregards,forinstance,thecasewherethestrengthpropertiesofthejointsareconsiderablylowerthanthoseoftherockmatrix,theimplementationofakinematicapproachwouldrequiretheuseoffailuremechanismsinvolvingvelocityjumps河北工程大学毕业设计(论文)3acrossthejoints,sincethelatterwouldconstitutepreferentialzonesfortheoccurrenceoffailure.Indeed,suchadirectapproachwhichisappliedinmostclassicaldesignmethods,isbecomingrapidlycomplexasthedensityofjointsincreases,thatisasthetypicaljointspacinglisbecom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