This paper presents the results of a series of biaxial compressive tests of granite cubes sizing of 75 mm, 100mm and 125 mm. Testing was done with a newly developed biaxial test apparatus, having a capacity of 500 metric tonnes in each direction and is equipped with servo-controlled load and displacement systems. Cubic samples tested biaxially exhibited a failure mechanism that is characterized by a varying degree of rock spalling, which is initiated at the free faces in the s1–s2 plane when the stress level reaches approximately sc/2 in both directions. An empirical biaxial failure is derived from a regression analysis of test results, and a new biaxial failure criterion for the jointed rockmass is proposed in an analogous way to the Hoek-Brown criterion, based on the test result and combining with GSI.
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Empirical Failure Criterion For Biaxially Loaded Granite
X. Yang
X. Yang
Luoyang Institute of Science and Technology
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Paper presented at the 12th ISRM Congress, Beijing, China, October 2011.
Paper Number:
ISRM-12CONGRESS-2011-159
Published:
October 16 2011
Citation
Yun, X. , Mitri, H.S. , and X. Yang. "Empirical Failure Criterion For Biaxially Loaded Granite." Paper presented at the 12th ISRM Congress, Beijing, China, October 2011.
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