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Title: | Modeling rock failure using the numerical manifold method followed by the discontinuous deformation analysis | Authors: | Ning, Youjun An, Xinmei Lü, Qing Ma, Guowei |
Keywords: | DRNTU::Engineering::Environmental engineering | Issue Date: | 2012 | Source: | Ning, Y., An, X.-M., Lü, Q., & Ma, G. (2012). Modeling rock failure using the numerical manifold method followed by the discontinuous deformation analysis. Acta mechanica sinica, 28(3), 760-773. | Series/Report no.: | Acta mechanica sinica | Abstract: | A complete rock failure process usually involves opening/sliding of preexisting discontinuities as well as fracturing in intact rock bridges to form persistent failure surfaces and subsequent motions of the generated rock blocks. The recently developed numerical manifold method (NMM) has potential for modelling such a complete failure process. However, the NMM suffers one limitation, i.e., unexpected material domain area change occurs in rotation modelling. This problem can not be easily solved because the rigid body rotation is not represented explicitly in the NMM. The discontinuous deformation analysis (DDA) is specially developed for modelling discrete block systems. The rotationinduced material area change in the DDA modelling can be avoided conveniently because the rigid body rotation is represented in an explicit form. In this paper, a transition technique is proposed and implemented to convert a NMM modelling to a DDA modelling so as to simulate a complete rock failure process entirely by means of the two methods, in which the NMM is adopted to model the early fracturing as well as the transition from continua to discontinua, while the DDA is adopted to model the subsequent motion of the generated rock blocks. Such a numerical approach also improves the simulation efficiency greatly as compared with a complete NMM modelling approach. The fracturing of a rock slab with pre-existing non-persistent joints located on a slope crest and the induced rockfall process are simulated. The validity of the modelling transition from the NMM to the DDA is verified and the applicability of the proposed numerical approach is investigated. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/98104 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/12319 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s10409-012-0055-1 | Schools: | School of Civil and Environmental Engineering | Rights: | © 2012 The Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. | Fulltext Permission: | none | Fulltext Availability: | No Fulltext |
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