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Evolution of Freeze–Thaw Damage Characteristics and Corresponding Models of Intact and Fractured Rocks Under Uniaxial Compression

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The freeze–thaw (FT) cycle will lead to rock damage and cause hidden danger to the safety of rock engineering. In order to explore the FT damage characteristics of rocks in cold regions, 0, 20, 30, 40 and 50 FT cycle tests and uniaxial compression tests were carried out on intact and single-fracture cyan specimens with crack inclination angle β of 0°, 45° and 90°, respectively, to study the FT damage problems of rocks from the aspects of physical, mechanical and energy characteristics. The results show that the FT damage of cyan sandstone specimens is mainly dominated by the mechanical action of water–ice phase transition, resulting in relatively little influence on the saturation weight. The porosity of the cyan sandstone specimen increases gradually with the increase of FT cycle, and it has an exponential function relationship with the peak strength, Hoek–Brown model parameter s and energy storage limit, which also implies their variation with the increase of FT cycle. Based on Lemaitre’s strain equivalent hypothesis and energy dissipation principle, FT-stress damage models of intact and fractured rocks are established. It is found that the initial damage and critical damage are positively correlated with the number of FT cycles and negatively correlated with crack inclination angle. With initial damage as the characteristic parameter, a critical damage model for rocks subjected to FT cycles is proposed based on the test data and data obtained from existing references. In addition, a normalized degradation equation for the peak strength and energy storage limit of FT-damaged rocks under uniaxial compression is proposed based on classical damage mechanics and critical damage model, and its applicability is verified by test data and relevant data from references. In general, the results of this study can provide a reference for the study of FT damage of rocks in cold regions, and be conducive to clarifying the relationship between FT damage of rocks and the deterioration of mechanical properties and energy storage capacity.

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  • The change of peak strength, apparent stiffness, Hoek Brown model parameter were discussed.

  • The energy accumulation effect, energy storage limit, peak dissipated energy and energy dissipation effect were analyzed.

  • A freeze–thaw-stress damage model for intact and fractured rocks was established, the concepts of initial and critical damage were introduced.

  • The critical damage model of FT damaged rocks was obtained and discussed.

  • The normalized degradation equations of peak strength and energy storage limit of FT damaged rocks are proposed.

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We acknowledge the funding support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 52174088). The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers and editors for their constructive suggestions which greatly improve the quality of this paper. The authors are also grateful for the permission from Springer.

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    Tao Tan & Chunyang Zhang

  2. State Key Laboratory of Safety and Health in Metal Mines, Maanshan, 243000, Anhui, China

    Chunyang Zhang & Wanru Li

  3. Sinosteel Maanshan General Institute of Mining Research Co Ltd, Maanshan, 243000, Anhui, China

    Chunyang Zhang & Wanru Li

  4. Lanzhou Engineering and Research Institute of Nonferrous Metallurgy Co., Ltd., Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, China

    Ercheng Zhao

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Tan, T., Zhang, C., Li, W. et al. Evolution of Freeze–Thaw Damage Characteristics and Corresponding Models of Intact and Fractured Rocks Under Uniaxial Compression. Rock Mech Rock Eng (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-024-03996-2

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