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Cyclic fatigue characteristics of rock failure using infrared radiation as precursor to violent failure: Experimental insights from loading and unloading response
Author(s) -
Cao Kewang,
Ma Liqiang,
Wu Yu,
Khan Naseer Muhammad,
Spearing A.J.S.Sam,
Hussain Sajjad,
Yang Jie
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
fatigue and fracture of engineering materials and structures
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.887
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1460-2695
pISSN - 8756-758X
DOI - 10.1111/ffe.13362
Subject(s) - infrared , fatigue testing , catastrophic failure , materials science , geotechnical engineering , composite material , geology , optics , physics
In this research paper, a new method is developed that can be used as a precursor of violent rock failure. It is based on measuring the characteristics of rock failure using infrared radiation (IR) under uniaxial cyclic loading and unloading. The loading–unloading response ratio (LURR) is determined based on IR indexes such as average infrared radiation temperature (AIRT) and infrared radiation temperature rate (IRTR). The results show that the LURR based on AIRT revealed an overall rising trend and mutation that occurred in the last cycle, which can be used as a precursor of the imminent rock failure. By contrast, the LURR based on IRTR has a noticeable ‘mutation‐rapid decrease’ in the middle and later periods of cyclic loading and unloading, which can also be considered as an early precursor of rock failure. Combined with the precursors of the imminent rock failure, the categorized warning of rock failure is recognized.