Estimation of the damage of a porous limestone from continuous (P- and S-) wave velocity measurements under uniaxial loading and different hydrous conditions

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Dec 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010geoji.183.1362e&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Journal International, Volume 183, Issue 3, pp. 1362-1375.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Geomechanics, Wave Propagation, Mechanics, Theory And Modelling

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The damage of a porous rock (Euville oolitic limestone) was studied through uniaxial stress-cycling tests. An experimental device, allowing the simultaneous and continuous measurement of strains (in two perpendicular directions) and five elastic wave hree P waves and two S waves) velocities in two different directions under fully controlled hydrous conditions, was developed for the work presented in this paper. Hence, the damage was monitored in a really precise and continuous way through the evolution of dynamic and static elastic moduli. The evolutions of wave velocities and elastic moduli, which reproduce very remarkably the shape of the stress-strains curves, showed that the limestone, initially isotropic, became progressively anisotropic during uniaxial loading due to microcrack damage. Indeed, even if the creation of microcracks is probably scattered and isotropic before the coalescence of microcracks, as shown in past studies, pre-existing microcracks and penny-shaped pores which are perpendicular (or almost perpendicular) to the uniaxial stress direction closed, whereas axially-oriented microcracks opened. The anisotropy of the damage is completely reversible but some of the damage is irreversible. VP(90°), which cannot record the opening of these microcracks, started to decrease just before the macroscopic failure of the sample and can detect, therefore, very precisely the macroscopic failure of the material. The influence of water on the strength and deformation of the Euville limestone was analysed by considering both the hydromechanical and physio-chemical (`Rehbinder effect', intergranular pressure solution and subcritical cracking) effects of water.

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