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Recent research has paid little attention to the shear damage of discontinuities with different joint wall material (DDJM). In this paper, we present an investigation on the evolution of the shear behaviour and the damage of three typical types of natural DDJM in a sliding-prone stratum of China. Experimental direct shear tests were performed on 14 pairs of natural DDJM specimens to examine the changes in the shear strengths and surface damages of the DDJM with increasing normal stresses and an increasing number of shear cycles by evaluating surface damages via damage zone distribution, damage area percentage, and variation of joint roughness coefficient (JRC). The results indicate that the differences in the shear damage between the two halves are closely related to the difference in strength of the two joint walls of the DDJM specimens with similar initial JRC values of the two joint surfaces. Simultaneously, parallel numerical direct shear tests were conducted in PFC3D. The performance of the numerical modeling was examined by comparing the parameters of shear strength, damage area and damage depth of DDJM specimens with those obtained in the experimental direct shear tests. Then the validated models were used to explore the evolution of the damage depth of DDJM specimens during the shearing process. The results demonstrate that the proposed numerical approach has the ability to reproduce the shear behavior and damage of DDJM reasonably and could be used to examine the internal damage of DDJM which are not easy to investigate via laboratory experiments.
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This research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41877259), the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2019YFC1509705; No. 2017YFC1501301), the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province of China (No. 2018CFB666) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41807271). The authors are grateful to these organizations for providing financial support.
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Wu, Q., Jiang, Y., Tang, H. et al. Experimental and Numerical Studies on the Evolution of Shear Behaviour and Damage of Natural Discontinuities at the Interface Between Different Rock Types. Rock Mech Rock Eng 53, 3721–3744 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-020-02129-9
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