Shear mode rock fracture toughness determination with a circular plate type specimen under three-point bending

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Fracture toughness is an important rock property for rock fracturing and fragmentation applications. Theory and practice of opening mode (mode I) and shearing mode (mode II) fracture toughness tests are still in a developing stage for the cylindrical rock cores. A new circular plate type test specimen is used for mode II fracture toughness testing on rock cores. This involves a straight edge notched circular plate type core disc geometry under three-point bending load; new method and its associated specimen geometry is referred as straight edge notched disc bend (SNDB) specimen under three-point bending. Mode II fracture toughness results of the tests with this new geometry were compared to the results of the tests commonly employed for mode II fracture toughness testing. Specimen geometries were modeled and mode II stress intensity factors were computed by finite element modeling using ABAQUS program. For comparison purposes, mode II or shearing mode fracture toughness KIIc of two different rock types were determined by different testing methods commonly employed in recent practice. Core specimens of Ankara andesite and Afyon marble rock types were tested with cracked chevron notched Brazilian disc and cracked straight through Brazilian disc specimens under Brazilian type loading, semi-circular bend specimen and straight edge notched disc bending specimen geometries under three-point bending.For all testing groups, cylindrical cores with diameters varying from 7.5 cm to 12.5 cm were prepared with notch lengths changing from 1.5 cm to 2.6 cm. Effect of specimen thickness on mode II fracture toughness was investigated for three different testing methods. Fracture toughness values remained constant when thickness of the specimens was increased for cracked straight through Brazilian disc, semi-circular bend and straight notched disc bend methods. For cracked straight through Brazilian disc method KIIc values of Ankara andesite and Afyon marble were 0.99 MPa√m and 0.86 MPa√m, respectively. Mode II fracture toughness with semi-circular bend specimen was 0.43 MPa√m for andesite and 0.46 MPa√m for marble. When the results of the two three-point bending type tests were compared straight notched disc under three-point bending resulted in higher KIIc values (0.61 MPa√m for andesite and 0.62 MPa√m for marble) than the results found by semi-circular bend tests.
Surface fault ruptures., Rock deformation.
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/21203
Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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S. Şener Karakaş, “Shear mode rock fracture toughness determination with a circular plate type specimen under three-point bending,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2011.
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