Experimental Investigations on Crack Propagation Characteristics of Granite Rectangle Plate with a Crack (GRPC)‎ under Different Blast Loading Rates

Abstract EN

The experimental system of 3D digital image correlation (3D-DIC) is set up to eliminate a certain extent of out-of-plane motion for accurate measuring the full-field strain field during crack propagation, and the effect of blast loading rates of fracture behavior of granite rectangle plate with a crack (GRPC) is investigated.

The experimental results indicated that the maximum values of the strain concentration zone do not fully represent the crack tip during the whole process of crack propagation.

The axial strain threshold value tip (ASTVT) plotting with lines and coordinate contours corresponding with the actual crack at the shooting area can be used to describe the position of the crack.

The axial strain 1.3% is more practical to obtain crack velocity and average crack velocity, and the average crack velocity decreases as the blast loading rates increase.

Through observing the relationship between crack width and time, it can be found that there are three stages, and the crack width increases as the blast loading rates increase.