Study on Crack Classification Criterion and Failure Evaluation Index of Red Sandstone Based on Acoustic Emission Parameter Analysis

Abstract

The acoustic emission (AE) characteristics of rock during loading can reflect the law of crack propagation and evolution in the rock. In order to study the fracture mode in the process of rock fracture, the AE characteristics and crack types of red sandstone during fracture were investigated by conducting Brazilian indirect tensile tests (BITT), direct shear tests (DST), and uniaxial compression tests (UCT). The evolution law of AE event rate, RA and AF values, and the distribution law of RA–AF data of red sandstone samples in three test types were analyzed. Based on the kernel density estimation (KDE) function and the coupling AE parameters (RA–AF values) in DST and BITT, the relatively objective dividing line for classifying tensile and shear cracks was discussed, and the dividing line was applied to the analysis of fracture source evolution and the failure precursor of red sandstone. The results show that the dividing line for classifying tensile and shear cracks of red sandstone is AF = 93RA + 75. Under uniaxial compression loading, the fracture source of red sandstone is primarily shear source in the initial phase of loading and tensile source in the critical failure phase, and the number is far greater than shear source. K = AF/(93RA + 75) can be defined as the AE parameter index, and its coefficient of variation CV (k) can be used as the failure judgment index of red sandstone. When CV (k) < 1, it can be considered that red sandstone enters the instability failure phase.

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