Abstract Extensive efforts have been made in the understanding of the failure characteristics of straight fissure, but the failure patterns of rock mass with intermittent non-straight fissures have not been examined comprehensively. To address this problem, the present study investigated the cracking behaviors of natural marble specimens containing double S-shaped fissures under compression. Seven types of coalescence patterns for S-shaped fissures are classified, two of which are firstly reported and featured by the occurrence of the self-coalescence phenomenon. It is found that the decrease of strength is accompanied by the internal crack at the stage of crack growth and propagation, following the occurrence of the external crack, at relatively large flaw and ligament angle. The numerical simulations with the corresponding parameters were carried out for comparison. This research provides helpful information for understanding the failure modes induced by crack propagation of intermittent double S-shaped fissures.


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    Title :

    Experimental Study on Cracking Behaviour of Intermittent Double S-shaped Fissures under Uniaxial Compression


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    Publication date :

    2019-03-27


    Size :

    12 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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