Numerical study on zonal disintegration of rock mass around deep underground openings

2011 ◽  
pp. 237-242
Author(s):  
P Jia ◽  
C Tang ◽  
Y Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Rock Mass ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Zonal Disintegration ◽  
Underground Openings ◽  
Deep Underground

Numerical Study of Zonal Disintegration within a Rock Mass around a Deep Excavated Tunnel

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yujun Zuo ◽  
Tao Xu ◽  
Yongbin Zhang ◽  
Yiping Zhang ◽  
Shucai Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rock Mass ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Zonal Disintegration

Numerical Study on Zonal Disintegration of Deep Rock Mass Using Three-Dimensional Bonded Block Model

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qingteng Tang ◽  
Wenbing Xie ◽  
Xingkai Wang ◽  
Zhili Su ◽  
Jinhai Xu
Keyword(s):  
Rock Mass ◽  
Fracture Zone ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Confining Pressure ◽  
Surrounding Rock ◽  
Zonal Disintegration ◽  
Block Model ◽  
Deep Rock Mass ◽  
Damaged Zone ◽  
Deep Rock

Zonal disintegration, a phenomenon of fractured zones and intact zones distributed alternately in deep rock mass, is different from the excavation-damaged zone of shallow rock mass. In this study, bonded block model of 3DEC was employed to study the fracture mode and origination condition of zonal disintegration. Initiation, propagation, and coalescence progress of fracture around the roadway boundary under different triaxial stress conditions are elaborated. Numerical simulation demonstrated that zonal disintegration may occur when the direction of maximum principal stress is parallel to the roadway axis. It is interesting to find that the fracture around the roadway boundary traced the line of a spiral line, while slip-line fractures distributed apart from the roadway boundary. The extent of the alternate fracture zone decreased as the confining pressure increased, and alternate fracture zone was no longer in existence when the confining pressure reaches a certain value. Effects of roadway shape on zonal disintegration were also studied, and the results indicated that the curvature of the fracture track line tends to be equal to the roadway boundary in shallow surrounding rock of the roadway, while the fractures in deep surrounding rock seems unaffected by the roadway shape. Those findings are of great significance to support design of deep underground openings.

Numerical Study on Influence of Joint Characters on Rock Mechanical Parameters

2011 ◽  
Vol 201-203 ◽  
pp. 2909-2912
Author(s):  
Yan Feng Feng ◽  
Tian Hong Yang ◽  
Hua Wei ◽  
Hua Guo Gao ◽  
Jiu Hong Wei
Keyword(s):  
Rock Mass ◽  
Compression Strength ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Failure Process ◽  
Deformation Modulus ◽  
Rock Joints ◽  
Structured Surfaces ◽  
Trace Length ◽  
The Impact

Rock mass is the syntheses composed of kinds of structure and structured surfaces. The joint characters is influencing and controlling the rock mass strength, deformation characteristics and rock mass engineering instability failure in a great degree. Through using the RFPA2D software, which is a kind of material failure process analysis numerical methods based on finite element stress analysis and statistical damage theory, the uniaxial compression tests on numerical model are carried, the impact of the trace length of rock joints and the fault throws on rock mechanics parameters are studied. The results showed that with the gradual increase of trace length,compression strength decreased gradually and its rate of variation getting smaller and smaller, the deformation modulus decreased but the rate of variation larger and larger; with the fault throws increasing, the compression strength first increases and then decreases, when the fault throw is equal to the trace length, the deformation modulus is the largest. When the joint trace length is less than the fault throw, the rate of the deformation modulus is greater than that of trace length, but the deformation modulus was not of regular change.

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