Study of the compressive strength and damage constitutive model of frozen sand has an important significance for construction design and prevention-control of soil destabilization damage in frozen soil engineering. In this paper, a new triaxial apparatus was used to carry out a series of triaxial compression tests of frozen sand under different confining pressure and strain rate, based on which a segmental strength criterion is established to describe the damage of microelement strength of frozen sand. Assuming that the microelement strength of frozen sand obeys the Weibull distribution, a statistical damage constitutive model of frozen sand is established by statistics and continuous medium mechanics. Based on the test data, the model parameters were calculated and the relationship between the strength distribution parameters, the strain rate, and the confining pressure was obtained. Finally, the calculated values of the damage constitutive model are compared with the experimental values, and it is found that the model can simulate the stress-strain process curve of frozen sand well and can reflect the transition of the curve from elasto-plasticity to strain-hardening when the strain rate increases from low to high. The results of this study have an important significance in engineering construction of cold regions and artificial ground freezing projects.
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