The influence of the intermediate principal stress on rock failure behaviour: A numerical study

Engineering Geology

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 109-118

  Pan, Peng Zhi ^a   Feng, Xia Ting ^a   Hudson, J A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Elasto plastic cellular automaton; Heterogeneity; Intermediate principal stress effect; Polyaxial compression; Rock failure process

Indexed keywords

COMPLETE STRESS-STRAIN CURVE; DRUCKER-PRAGER; ELASTO-PLASTIC CELLULAR AUTOMATON; FAILED ELEMENTS; FAILURE INITIATION; FAILURE PROCESS; FAILURE STATE; HETEROGENEITY; HETEROGENEOUS ROCKS; INTERMEDIATE PRINCIPAL STRESS; INTERMEDIATE PRINCIPAL STRESS EFFECT; INTERMEDIATE STRESS; LOCAL FAILURE; MOHR COULOMB MODEL; NUMERICAL STUDIES; PRE-PEAK; PRINCIPAL STRESS; ROCK FAILURE PROCESS; ROCK FAILURES; ROCK SPECIMEN; ROCK STRENGTH; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STRESS LOADING; WEIBULL;

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; COALESCENCE; ELASTOPLASTICITY; NUMERICAL METHODS; ROCK MECHANICS; STRESS CONCENTRATION; STRESS-STRAIN CURVES; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

ROCKS;

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COULOMB CRITERION; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; HETEROGENEITY; MOHR THEORY; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; ROCK MECHANICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRESS; WEIBULL THEORY;

EID: 84855201608     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2011.10.008     Document Type: Article

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