TRUE TRIAXIAL TESTS WITH NEW MOGI-TYPE TRUE TRIAXIAL TEST APPARATUS AND ITS LOADING BOUNDARY EFFECT
HE Haoyu,SHI Lu,LI Xiaochun,BAI Bing
(State Key Laboratory of Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering,Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Wuhan,Hubei 430071,China)
Abstract:A new developed Mogi-type true triaxial test apparatus was introduced. True triaxial tests for marble with mutually overlapping platens were presented. True triaxial tests and three dimensional FE modelling study were carried out on the loading boundary effect. The results indicate that the peak value of strength increases with the ?2(intermediate principal stress). When the strength reaches its maximum value,it tends to decrease. The brittleness increases with increasing ?2. The intermediate principal stress retards the dilatancy onset. The influence of corner effect on the stress and strain distributions of rock specimen subjected to the traditional platens is apparent in true triaxial test due to stress concentration in the corner. And the strength of rock specimen subjected to the mutually overlapping platens is a bit larger than that subjected to traditional platens.