Ensaios não convencionais para determinação da tenacidade à fratura em rochas: análise e comparação / Non-conventional tests for determining the fracture toughness in rocks: analysis and comparison
AUTOR(ES)
Humberto Iván Pehovaz Alvarez
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2004
RESUMO
Since early 1970 s new fracture mechanics concepts have been developed to explain rock fracture behavior. Fracture toughness has been measured and considered as an important intrinsic property of rock indicating the magnitude of fracture strength or its ability to resist crack propagation. Rock fracture mechanics has been widely applied to tectonics, energy recovery and storage technology and rock engineering. It is relevant in blasting, hydraulic fracturing, mechanical fragmentation, rock slope analysis, geophysics, earthquake mechanics, geothermal energy extraction and many other practical problems. Over the last three decades, several methods for studying the mode I fracture propagation have been developed and a series of papers have been written to increase the knowledge of the mode I fracture toughness in rocks. A great number of fracture toughness testing methodologies have appeared in the literature. Some related mode I rock fracture toughness test procedures have been standardized by ISRM in 1988 and in 1995. However, these testing methods present some relative difficulties in sample preparation, set-up complexity, interpretation and results trustworthiness. The aim of this study is to compare the fracture toughness ISRM suggested testing methods with other suggested methodologies for other researchers. Some of the non-standardized tests may be useful, if they lead to reliable results, and if their procedures are simpler than those suggested by ISRM
ASSUNTO(S)
rocks tenacidade à fratura ensaios de laboratório granite mode i laboratory tests basalt basalto modo i granito fracture toughness rochas
