Percolation Threshold of Red-Bed Soft Rock during Damage and Destruction

• Published in: Applied sciences 2022-08, Vol.12 (15), p.7615
• Main Authors: Yu, Lei, Lai, Haoqiang, Zhou, Cuiying, Liu, Zhen, Zhang, Lihai
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Compression; Connectivity; constitutive model of damage; Constitutive models; Destruction; Mathematical models; Mechanical properties; Methods; Percolation; red-bed soft rock; renormalization group; Rocks; Theoretical analysis; threshold value
• ISSN: 2076-3417; 2076-3417
• DOI: 10.3390/app12157615

The critical damage point of the red-bed soft rock percolation phenomenon can be described as the percolation threshold. At present, there are insufficient theoretical and experimental studies on the percolation phenomenon and threshold of red-bed soft rock. In combination with theoretical analysis, compression experiment and numerical simulation, the percolation threshold and destruction of red-bed soft rock are studied in this paper. The theoretical percolation threshold of red-bed soft rock was obtained by constructing a renormalization group model of soft rock. Based on damage mechanics theory, rock damage characterization and strain equivalent hypothesis, a constitutive model of red-bed soft rock percolation damage was obtained. The percolation threshold of red-bed soft rock was determined by compression test and a damage constitutive model, which verified the rationality of the theoretical percolation threshold, and we numerically simulated the percolation of red-bed soft rock under triaxial compression. The results showed that the percolation threshold increases as the confining pressure rises, but decreases significantly with the action of water. In this study, the critical failure conditions and percolation characteristics of red-bed soft rock under different conditions were obtained. The relationship between percolation and soft rock failure was revealed, providing a new direction for studying the unstable failure of red-bed soft rock.