Behavior of Marble under Compression
Publication: Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Volume 8, Issue 3
Abstract
Results of experimental and theoretical studies of the micromechanical behavior of marble under compression are presented. A cylindrical marble specimen was submerged in a molten metal alloy under compression and the alloy was driven into voids and fractures by pore pressure. The alloy was solidified at a certain stage of the experiment in order to preserve the geometry of microcracks as they existed under load and to distinguish these cracks from those generated during sample polishing. With a surface tension of 400 mN/m, the alloy could penetrate into flat cracks with apertures as fine as 0.08 μm under a pore pressure of 10.3 MPa (1,500 psi). This technique also facilitated observation of the microcracks in three dimensions. A comprehensive image analysis was performed on the cracking pattern developed in the marble samples. The propagation of the cracking process was modeled using nonlinear discontinuous deformation analysis (DDA) with a finite-element meshed block system.
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Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Volume 8 • Issue 3 • August 1996
Pages: 157 - 170
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Copyright © 1996 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Aug 1, 1996
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