The macro mechanical properties of materials with characteristics of large scale and complicated structural composition can be analyzed through its reconstructed meso-structures.In this work,the meso-structures of tal...The macro mechanical properties of materials with characteristics of large scale and complicated structural composition can be analyzed through its reconstructed meso-structures.In this work,the meso-structures of talus deposits that widely exist in the hydro-power engineering in the southwest of China were first reconstructed by small particles according to the in-situ photographs based on the self-adaptive PCNN digital image processing,and then numerical direct shear tests were carried out for studying the mechanical properties of talus deposits.Results indicate that the reconstructed meso-structures of talus deposits are more consistent with the actual situation because the self-adaptive PCNN digital image processing has a higher discrimination in the details of soil-rock segmentation.The existence and random distribution of rock blocks make the initial shear stiffness,the peak strength and the residual strength higher than those of the "pure soil" with particle size less than 1.25 cm apparently,but reduce the displacements required for the talus deposits reaching its peak shear strength.The increase of rock proportion causes a significant improvement in the internal friction angle of talus deposit,which to a certain degree leads to the characteristics of shear stress-displacement curves having a changing trend from the plastic strain softening deformation to the nonlinear strain hardening deformation,while an unconspicuous increase in cohesion.The uncertainty and heterogeneity of rock distributions cause the differences of rock proportion within shear zone,leading to a relatively strong fluctuation in peak strengths during the shear process,while movement features of rock blocks,such as translation,rotation and crossing,expand the scope of shear zone,increase the required shear force,and also directly lead to the misjudgment that the lower shear strength is obtained from the samples with high rock proportion.That,however,just explains the reason why the shear strength gained from a small amount of indoor test data is not consistent with engineering practice.展开更多
The microscopic characteristics of skeletal particles in rock and soil media have important effects on macroscopic mechanical properties.A mathematical procedure called spherical harmonic function analysis was here de...The microscopic characteristics of skeletal particles in rock and soil media have important effects on macroscopic mechanical properties.A mathematical procedure called spherical harmonic function analysis was here developed to characterize micromorphology of particles and determine the meso effects in a discrete manner.This method has strong mathematical properties with respect to orthogonality and rotating invariance.It was used here to characterize and reconstruct particle micromorphology in three-dimensional space.The applicability and accuracy of the method were assessed through comparison of basic geometric properties such as volume and surface area.The results show that the micromorphological characteristics of reproduced particles become more and more readily distinguishable as the reproduced order number of spherical harmonic function increases,and the error can be brought below 5%when the order number reaches 10.This level of precision is sharp enough to distinguish the characteristics of real particles.Reconstructed particles of the same size but different reconstructed orders were used to form cylindrical samples,and the stress-strain curves of these samples filled with different-order particles which have their mutual morphological features were compared using PFC3D.Results show that the higher the spherical harmonic order of reconstructed particles,the lower the initial compression modulus and the larger the strain at peak intensity.However,peak strength shows only a random relationship to spherical harmonic order.Microstructure reconstruction was here shown to be an efficient means of numerically simulating of multi-scale rock and soil media and studying the mechanical properties of soil samples.展开更多
基金Project(2013BAB06B00) supported by the National Key Technology R&D Programof ChinaProject(2011CB013504) supported by the National Basic Research Program of ChinaProject(50911130366) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
文摘The macro mechanical properties of materials with characteristics of large scale and complicated structural composition can be analyzed through its reconstructed meso-structures.In this work,the meso-structures of talus deposits that widely exist in the hydro-power engineering in the southwest of China were first reconstructed by small particles according to the in-situ photographs based on the self-adaptive PCNN digital image processing,and then numerical direct shear tests were carried out for studying the mechanical properties of talus deposits.Results indicate that the reconstructed meso-structures of talus deposits are more consistent with the actual situation because the self-adaptive PCNN digital image processing has a higher discrimination in the details of soil-rock segmentation.The existence and random distribution of rock blocks make the initial shear stiffness,the peak strength and the residual strength higher than those of the "pure soil" with particle size less than 1.25 cm apparently,but reduce the displacements required for the talus deposits reaching its peak shear strength.The increase of rock proportion causes a significant improvement in the internal friction angle of talus deposit,which to a certain degree leads to the characteristics of shear stress-displacement curves having a changing trend from the plastic strain softening deformation to the nonlinear strain hardening deformation,while an unconspicuous increase in cohesion.The uncertainty and heterogeneity of rock distributions cause the differences of rock proportion within shear zone,leading to a relatively strong fluctuation in peak strengths during the shear process,while movement features of rock blocks,such as translation,rotation and crossing,expand the scope of shear zone,increase the required shear force,and also directly lead to the misjudgment that the lower shear strength is obtained from the samples with high rock proportion.That,however,just explains the reason why the shear strength gained from a small amount of indoor test data is not consistent with engineering practice.
基金Project(2015CB057903)supported by the National Basic Research Program of ChinaProjects(51679071,51309089)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China+2 种基金Project(BK20130846)supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province,ChinaProject(2013BAB06B00)supported by the National Key Technology R&D Program,ChinaProject(2015B06014)supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,China
文摘The microscopic characteristics of skeletal particles in rock and soil media have important effects on macroscopic mechanical properties.A mathematical procedure called spherical harmonic function analysis was here developed to characterize micromorphology of particles and determine the meso effects in a discrete manner.This method has strong mathematical properties with respect to orthogonality and rotating invariance.It was used here to characterize and reconstruct particle micromorphology in three-dimensional space.The applicability and accuracy of the method were assessed through comparison of basic geometric properties such as volume and surface area.The results show that the micromorphological characteristics of reproduced particles become more and more readily distinguishable as the reproduced order number of spherical harmonic function increases,and the error can be brought below 5%when the order number reaches 10.This level of precision is sharp enough to distinguish the characteristics of real particles.Reconstructed particles of the same size but different reconstructed orders were used to form cylindrical samples,and the stress-strain curves of these samples filled with different-order particles which have their mutual morphological features were compared using PFC3D.Results show that the higher the spherical harmonic order of reconstructed particles,the lower the initial compression modulus and the larger the strain at peak intensity.However,peak strength shows only a random relationship to spherical harmonic order.Microstructure reconstruction was here shown to be an efficient means of numerically simulating of multi-scale rock and soil media and studying the mechanical properties of soil samples.
