Mechanical hysteresis in rocks at low strain amplitudes and seismic frequencies

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A sensitive capacitance displacement transducer has been used to record hysteresis loops in the stress-strain diagrams of laboratory samples of granite, basalt, sandstone and concrete subjected to cyclic axial strains with amplitudes of order 10-5 and periods of 10-300 sec. The ends of the loops are always cusped, whether the load cycle is sinusoidal or not, and at low strain amplitudes the loop shape becomes symmetrical and appears to be independent of amplitude. Thermal relaxation influences the observed loop shapes, so that the strain cycles represent a compromise between adiabatic and isothermal compressions. However, this does not affect the conclusion that stress-strain loops are always cusped. This observation does not appear to be consistent with linear theories of damping of acoustic and seismic waves, which indicate elliptical loops.

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