Chemical Damage Constitutive Model Establishment and the Energy Analysis of Rocks under Water–Rock Interaction

Qi Xu, Angran Tian (), Xinyu Luo, Xin Liao and Qiang Tang ()
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Qi Xu: School of Rail Transportation, Soochow University, Xiangcheng District, Suzhou 215131, China
Angran Tian: School of Rail Transportation, Soochow University, Xiangcheng District, Suzhou 215131, China
Xinyu Luo: School of Rail Transportation, Soochow University, Xiangcheng District, Suzhou 215131, China
Xin Liao: Faculty of Geosciences and Environmental Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 611756, China
Qiang Tang: School of Rail Transportation, Soochow University, Xiangcheng District, Suzhou 215131, China

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 24, 1-15

Abstract: The physical and mechanical properties of rocks can be reduced significantly by an acidic environment, resulting in engineering weaknesses, such as building foundation instability, landslides, etc. In order to investigate the mechanical properties of rocks after hydrochemical erosion, a chemical damage constitutive model was established and used to analyze chemical damage variables and energy transformation. It is assumed that the strength of the rock elements obeyed Weibull distribution, considering the nonuniformity of rock. The chemical damage variable was proposed according to the load-bearing volume changes in the rock under water–rock chemical interactions. The chemical damage constitutive model was derived from coupling the mechanical damage under the external load and the chemical damage under hydrochemical erosion. In order to verify the accuracy of the model, semi-immersion experiments and uniaxial compression experiments of black sandy dolomite were carried out with different iron ion concentrations. Compared with the experimental data, the chemical damage constitutive model proposed could predict the stress–strain relationship reasonably well after water–rock interaction. The effects of water–rock interaction on the rock were a decrease in peak stress and an increase in peak strain. The peak strain increased by 4.96–29.58%, and the deterioration rate of peak strength was 0.19–4.18%. The energy transformation of the deterioration process was analyzed, and the results showed that the decrease in releasable elastic energy, U e , is converted into dissipated energy, U d , after hydrochemical erosion.

Keywords: chemical damage constitutive model; water–rock interaction; chemical corrosion; semi-immersion test; dissipated energy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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