Dynamic failure analysis on granite under uniaxial impact compressive load

摘要

High strain-rate uniaxial compressive loading tests were produced in the modified split Hopkinson pres-sure bar (SHPB) with pulse shaper on granite samples. It was shown that the failure of the granite cylinder was typ-ical tensile splitting failure mode by sudden splitting parallel to the direction of uniaxial compressive loading at different strain rates. Besides, it was concluded that not only the strength of granite increased, but also the fragment size decreased and the fragment numbers increased with the increasing strain rate. To quantitatively analyze the failure phenomena, the numerical calculation based on a dynamic interacting sliding microcrack model was adopted to invest-igate the influence of microcrack with the different initial crack length, crack angle, crack space and friction coef-ficient on the macro-mechanical properties of granite under different strain rates. Accordingly, the strain-dependency of the compression strength and the fragmentation degree of granite was explained reasonably.