JIA Peng, WANG Xiao-shuai, WANG De-chao. Study on the freeze-thaw deformation characteristics
of saturated fractured rocks[J]. 2023, 44(2): 345-354.
DOI:
JIA Peng, WANG Xiao-shuai, WANG De-chao. Study on the freeze-thaw deformation characteristics
of saturated fractured rocks[J]. 2023, 44(2): 345-354.DOI: 10.16285/j.rsm.2022.0554.
Study on the freeze-thaw deformation characteristics
of saturated fractured rocks
The fractured rock mass in cold areas is damaged and deteriorated due to crevice-water frost heaving
which seriously threatens the safety of engineering construction in cold regions. In this study
freeze-thaw cycling tests were conducted on green sandstone
red sandstone and granite samples of different porosities. The strain changing with time and temperature of saturated fracture during freeze-thaw cycling under influences of fracture length
width and lithology were analyzed. The changing rules of the characteristic values of fracture strains and the failure mechanism of fractured rock were also studied. Experimental results show that the change rule of freeze-thaw strain of fractured rock mass with different fracture geometry parameters can be divided into seven stages: the cool shrinkage stage
the frost heave stage
the frost heave stabilization stage
the thermal expansion stage
the thaw shrinkage stage
the thaw shrinkage rebound stage
and the thaw shrinkage stabilization stage. The curve of freeze-thaw strain versus temperature of saturated fractured rock mass is an unclosed hysteresis loop. The phenomenon of “freeze-thaw hysteresis” occurs
and with the increase of freeze-thaw cycles
the hysteresis loop gradually moves up
leading to a gradual increase of the residual strain. Characteristic values of freeze-thaw strain of saturated fractured rock mass include: the maximum microstrain
the residual strain
the frost heave amplitude
and the thaw shrinkage amplitude. The characteristic value of strain is related to the fracture length
the width and lithology of rock mass
and the freeze-thaw failure of fractured rock mass is caused by gradual accumulation of the residual strain.