Numerical investigation of blasting-induced crack initiation and propagation in rocks

作者：Zhu Zheming^*; Mohanty Bibhu; Xie Heping

来源：International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, 2007, 44(3): 412-424.

DOI：10.1016/j.ijrmms.2006.09.002

• dynamic fracture
• blasting
• numerical model
• stress wave
• crack

To investigate the dynamic fracture mechanism related to blast-induced borehole breakdown and crack propagation, circular rock models containing a single centrally located source of explosive were numerically blasted using the AUTODYN 2D code. According to the material properties and loading conditions, four kinds of equations of state, linear, shock, compaction and ideal gas, are used. A modified principal stress failure criterion is applied to determining material status. The dynamic stresses at the selected target points in a rock sample are computed as a function of time following application of explosive load. It is shown that shear stress (resulting from intense compressive stress) causes a crushed zone near the borehole, the major tensile principal stress causes radial cracks, and the reflected stress wave from free boundary causes circumferential cracks some distance away from the free boundary. The influences of the factors of boundary condition, coupling medium, borehole diameter, decoupling and joint on rock dynamic fracture are discussed.

• 出版日期2007-4
• 单位四川大学