We acknowledge the funding support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.42141010,51879184 and 12172253).
Dynamic tensile failure is a common phenomenon in deep rock practices,and thus accurately evaluating the dynamic tensile responses of rocks under triaxial pressures is of great significance.The Brazilian disc(BD)test ...
funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.41972264);Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.LR22E080002);the Observation and Research Station of Geohazards in Zhejiang,Ministry of Natural Resources,China(Grant No.ZJDZGCZ-2021).
The geometric characteristics of fractures within a rock mass can be inferred by the data sampling from boreholes or exposed surfaces.Recently,the universal elliptical disc(UED)model was developed to represent natural...
funding support from the Sichuan Science and Technology Program (Grant No. 2021YJ0511);the State Key Laboratory for Geo-Mechanics and Deep Underground Engineering,China University of Mining&Technology (Grant No.SKLGDUEK2111);the Key Laboratory of Rock Mechanics and Geohazards of Zhejiang Province (Grant No. ZJRMG-2020-01)。
Cracked straight-through Brazilian disc(CSTBD) samples prepared using two rock materials were used for thermal treatment from room temperature to 700℃. Uniaxial splitting experiments were performed using an automatic...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51779021);Chongqing Natural Science Foundation(Grant No.cstc2019jcyj-msxm2176);Scientific and Technological Research Program of Chongqing Municipal Education Commission(Grant No.KJQN201800745).
In deep underground engineering,understanding of time-related stress memory properties is critical to evaluate the in situ stress conditions of a rock mass.In this study,the time-sensitivity mechanism of the rock stre...
Minerals Research Institute of Western Australia, Mining3 and CSIRO for funding this work
This paper investigates the effect of cutter clearance angle on variation of depth of cut and cutting process with an actuated disc cutting(ADC).ADC is a cyclic cutting method with two main characteristics:(i)a disk-s...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51475163);the National Hightech R&D Program of China(Grant No.2012AA041803)
Predicting the cutter consumption and the exact time to replace the worn-out cutters in tunneling projects constructed with tunnel boring machine(TBM) is always a challenging issue. In this paper, we focus on the anal...
provided by the Innovative Research Groups of Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grant No. 51321065);NSFC (Grant No. 51479131);The research of Kaiwen Xia was partially supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) through the Discovery (Grant No. 72031326)
Tensile strength is an important material property for rocks. In applications where rocks are subjected to dynamic loads, the dynamic tensile strength is the controlling parameter. Similar to the study of static tensi...
co-financed by the EU(European Social Fund-ESF);Greek National Funds through the Operational Program "Education and Lifelong Learning" of the National Strategic Reference Framework(NSRF)-Research;Funding Program:THALES:Reinforcement of the interdisciplinary and/or inter-institutional research and innovation
The general contact problem of a disc squeezed between jaws of arbitrary curvature is considered employing Muskhelishvili’s complex potentials.Taking advantage of the general solution introduced,the closed-form expre...