Mechanical Characteristics for Rocks under Different Paths and Unloading Rates under Confining Pressures

Abstract EN

To investigate mechanical characteristics of rocks under different unloading conditions, triaxial tests are carried out with initial confining pressures of 10, 20, and 30 MPa and unloading rates of 0.05~1 MPa/s in three stress paths.

Results show that the increment of axial strain is far less than that of the lateral strain.

The unloading rates of confining pressures have less influence on variation of strain and lateral increment in path I.

The variation of axial increment strain in the same time is slightly larger than the variation of lateral increment; D-value is influenced by unloading rates of confining pressures in path II.

The variation of axial strain increment decreases firstly and then increases with the variation of confining pressures.

The relation decreases and then increases with unloading rates increases in path III.

The dilatancy angle decreases with initial confining pressures increases.

The vary rates of dilatancy angle from initial point of dilatancy angle to peak point of dilatancy angle increase with the unloading rates of confining pressures.

In the same rates, the vary rates of dilatancy angle from the initial point of the dilatancy angle to peak point of the dilatancy angle in path I are greater than those in path II.