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Grain-Based Distinct Element Modeling of Thermoshearing of Rock Fracture: DECOVALEX-2023 Task G

입자기반 개별요소모델을 이용한 암석 균열의 Thermoshearing 거동 해석: 국제공동연구 DECOVALEX-2023 Task G

  • Received : 2022.12.19
  • Accepted : 2022.12.26
  • Published : 2022.12.31
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Abstract

In the present study, we proposed a numerical method for simulating thermally induced fracture slip using a grain-based distinct element model (GBDEM). As a part of DECOVALEX-2023, the thermo-mechanical loading test on a saw-cut rock fracture conducted at the Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology was simulated. In the numerical model, the rock sample including a saw-cut fracture was represented as a group of random Voronoi polyhedra. Then, the coupled thermo-mechanical behavior of grains and their interfaces was calculated using 3DEC. The key concerns focused on the temperature evolution, thermally induced principal stress increment, and fracture normal and shear displacements under thermo-mechanical loading. The comparisons between laboratory experimental results and the numerical results revealed that the numerical model reasonably captured the heat transfer and heat loss characteristics of the rock specimen, the horizontal stress increment due to constrained displacement, and the progressive shear failure of the fracture. However, the onset of the fracture slip and the magnitudes of stress increment and fracture displacement showed discrepancies between the numerical and experimental results. We expect the numerical model to be enhanced by continuing collaboration and interaction with other research teams of DECOVALEX-2023 Task G and validated in further study.

본 연구에서는 3차원 입자기반 개별요소모델(grain-based distinct element model, GBDEM)을 이용하여 암석 균열의 열에 의한 미끄러짐 거동을 해석하였다. 이는 DECOVALEX-2023 프로젝트 Task G에 참여하여 수행한 연구로, 해석대상은 한국건설기술연구원에서 수행된 saw-cut 균열 시료에 대한 열-역학적 하중 재하 실험 결과이다. 여기에서는 암석 시험편을 Voronoi 다면체의 집합체로 모델링하고, 개별요소법 코드인 3DEC을 통해 입자와 입자 간 경계면, 내부에 포함된 균열에서의 열-역학적 연계거동을 해석하였다. 주요 해석내용은 가열로 인한 암석 표면의 온도 분포, 열응력의 증가에 따른 주응력 변화, 균열의 전단변위와 수직변위이다. 해석 결과, 상기 수치모델은 실내실험에서 관찰된 열전달과 열손실 특성, 열에 의한 균열의 점진적 전단파괴 프로세스, 변위의 제한으로 인한 열응력의 증가 등을 합리적 수준에서 재현하고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 가열에 의한 전단파괴 시점, 열응력 증분과 변위 크기 등에서는 다소 차이를 보였다. 본 연구의 해석모델은 Task G에 참여하는 국외 연구팀들과의 의견 교류 및 협력을 통해 지속적으로 개선, 검증할 예정이다.

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Acknowledgement

The authors appreciate and thank the DECOVALEX-2023 Funding Organizations, Andra, BASE, BGE, BGR, CAS, CNSC, COVRA, US DOE, ENRESA, ENSI, JAEA, KAERI, NWMO, RWM, SURAO, SSM and Taipower for their financial and technical support of the work described in this paper. The statements made in the paper are, however, solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Funding Organizations. This research was supported by the Basic Research Project of the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (GP2020-010) funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT, Korea.

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