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SUMMARY Uniaxial compression tests with combined acousto-optical monitoring techniques are conducted on flawed granite specimens, with the aim of investigating the fracture-related acoustic emission (AE) event rate characteristics at the unstable cracking phase in flawed rocks. The interevent time (IET) function F(τ) is adopted to interpret the AE time-series from damage stress (σcd) to ultimate failure, and photographic data are used to evaluate unstable cracking behaviours in flawed granite. The results show that a high AE event rate is always registered but intermittently interrupted by macrofracturing at the unstable cracking phase. The reversed U-shaped curve relation between the AE event rate and the loading time is documented in unstable flawed granite for the first time. The acoustic quiescence has a mechanismic linkage and quantitative correlation with stress drop, and this synchronous acousto-mechanical behaviour is a typical result of the initiation, growth and coalescence of macrocracks initiated from the flaw tips. Moreover, the reactivation and intensification of fracture process zones (FPZs) by increasing loads are the dominant mechanism triggering unstable crack growth in flawed granite.

AE event rate characteristics of flawed granite: from damage stress to ultimate failure