Orthogonal test method for determination of the proportion of rock-like material based on properties of deformation and brittleness

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  • 1. School of Civil Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China 2. Beijing Municipal Engineering Research Institute, Beijing 100037, China
SONG Yu, female, born in 1993, PhD candidate, focusing on investigation of rheological mechanics of rocks and jointed rock.

Online published: 2021-01-22

Supported by

the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2019YJS145).

Abstract

A systematic process for obtaining the proportion of the rock-like material with properties of deformation and brittleness similar to the prototype sandstone using orthogonal test has been proposed. The indexes of and have been introduced to quantitatively represent the properties of deformation and brittleness, respectively. The rock-like material is composed with cement and microsilica as the binder material and quartz sand as the aggregate. First, orthogonal tests have been performed, and the various indexes of and with different levels of water-binder, sand-binder and microsilica-cement ratio have been divided by statistical data of natural sandstone. Second, range analysis has been applied to describe the trend of the two indexes with different levels of these three factors. Third, multivariate polynomial equations have been used to obtain the proper proportion of the rock-like material with properties of deformation and brittleness similar to the prototype sandstone. The specimens with the determined proportion are found to be within the allowable error margin compared with the prototype sandstone, and properties of deformation and brittleness of the proposed rock-like material are consistent with the sandstone. Therefore, the newly proposed rock-like material can substitute rock blocks in the following laboratory test.

Cite this article

SONG Yu, LIU Bao-guo, LIU Hao, SUN Jing-lai, YU Ming-yuan, REN Da-rui, . Orthogonal test method for determination of the proportion of rock-like material based on properties of deformation and brittleness[J]. Rock and Soil Mechanics, 2020 , 41(8) : 2675 -2684 . DOI: 10.16285/j.rsm.2019.6711

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