Advances in Civil Engineering

Fracture Behaviour of Rock in Complex Geological Environments


Publishing date
01 Sep 2021
Status
Closed
Submission deadline
07 May 2021

Lead Editor

1Central South University, Changsha, China

2King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

3Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden

4Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China

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Fracture Behaviour of Rock in Complex Geological Environments

This issue is now closed for submissions.

Description

With the increasing engineering activities on mining and construction in complex geological environments (e.g. deep mining, construction in cold regions, and construction of nuclear waste repositories), the stability of rock engineering under various geological environments has attracted attention both from academics and engineering practice. It is well known that the natural rock mass is made up of heterogeneous materials with various discontinuities. Rock failure occurs through a complex process involving crack propagation and coalescence of discontinuities.

The different engineering conditions can change rock fracture behaviours significantly, and the special rock fracture mechanics models are required. More specifically, the degradation in fracture toughness, fracture characteristics, and fracture behaviour in rock masses in complex geological environments require more attention. The current understanding of how cracks initiate and propagate in the rock mass, namely the fracture mechanism of jointed rocks, is limited, which requires research from theoretical analyses and experimental tests to numerical simulations to be conducted to tackle this challenge.

The aim of this Special Issue is to gather original fundamental and applied research concerning fracture characteristics of rocks under different engineering conditions, such as thermal shock, freeze-thaw cycle, dry-wet cycle, acid-alkali corrosion, etc. Contributions on fracture mode, fracture toughness, fracture surface morphology, micro-fracture mechanism, crack coalescence modes and failure criteria are especially encouraged. Both original research papers and review articles are welcome.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

  • Damage and crack evolution in jointed rock masses
  • Rock fracture toughness under different conditions
  • Morphology of rock fracture surfaces
  • Micro-mechanism of rock failure in different geological environments
  • Numerical simulation of failure process of fractured rocks
  • Real-time SEM observations of rock failure processes
  • Acoustic emission technology to track rock cracks
  • Crack coalescence modes and the failure criteria

Articles

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  • - Research Article

A Case Study of Thaumasite Sulfate Attack in Tunnel Engineering

Chongbang Xu | Xingyu Zhou | ... | Xuefeng Li
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2021
  • - Article ID 6935414
  • - Research Article

Research on the Strength Characteristics and Crack Propagation Law of Noncoplanar Nonthrough Jointed Rock Mass by PFC2D

Qingzhi Chen | Yuanming Liu | ... | Wei Wang
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2021
  • - Article ID 4436942
  • - Research Article

Seepage and Dynamic Characteristics of Carbonaceous Mudstone Coarse-Grained Soil Embankment with Different Gradations

Zhong-ming He | Xiao-qu Liu | ... | Jian-ping Xiong
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2021
  • - Article ID 1342691
  • - Research Article

Study of the Failure Mode of a Jointed Rock Mass due to a Stress Wave

Xi Kun Qian | Cong Cong Li
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2021
  • - Article ID 2581382
  • - Research Article

Experimental Study on Influence of Joint Surface Morphology on Strength and Deformation of Nonthrough Jointed Rock Masses under Direct Shear

Yuanming Liu | Qingzhi Chen | ... | Xingchao Tian
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2021
  • - Article ID 7459777
  • - Research Article

Flexural Fatigue Behaviors of Silicon Carbide Recycled Concrete in Corrosive Environments

Jinzhi Zhou | Tiantian Fu | ... | Ziyang Shuang
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2021
  • - Article ID 4959229
  • - Research Article

Experimental Investigation on Effects of Bacterial Concentration, Crack Inclination Angle, Crack Roughness, and Crack Opening on the Fracture Permeability Using Microbially Induced Carbonate Precipitation

Yulin Zou | Hao Bai | ... | Yundong Shou
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2021
  • - Article ID 6658915
  • - Research Article

A Damage Constitutive Model of Rock Subjected to Freeze-Thaw Cycles Based on Lognormal Distribution

Hang Lin | Linyuan Liang | ... | Rihong Cao
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2021
  • - Article ID 9958436
  • - Research Article

Experimental Analysis of Bending Stiffness Characteristics of Grouted Double Mortise-Tenon Joint for Prefabricated Metro Station Structure

Xiuren Yang | Fang Lin | Meiqun Huang
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2021
  • - Article ID 9917744
  • - Research Article

Numerical Analysis for the Caving Characteristics of Rock Mass with Inclined Joints in Caving Mining

Jinbo Sui | Fengyu Ren | ... | Huan Liu
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