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A new meso-mechanical testing scheme based on SEM was developed to carry out the experiment of microfracturing process of rocks. The microfracturing process of the pre-crack marble sample on surrounding rock in the immerged Long-big tunnel in Jinping Cascade II Hydropower Station under uniaxial compression was recorded by using the testing scheme. According to the stereology theory, the propagation and coalescent of cracks at meso-scale were quantitatively investigated with digital technology. Therefore, the basic geometric information of rock microcracks such as area, angle, length, width, perimeter, was obtained from binary images after segmentation. The failure mechanism of specimen under uniaxial compression with the quantitative information was studied from macro and microscopic point of view. The results show that the image of microfracturing process of the specimen can be observed and recorded digitally. During the damage of the specimen, the distribution of microcracks in the specimen is still subjected to exponential distribution with some microcracks concentrated in certain regions. Finally, the change law of the fractal dimension of the local element in marble sample under different external load conditions is obtained by means of the statistical calculation of the fractal dimension.
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Foundation item: Projects(50674040, 50539090) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China; Project(CX07B_128z) supported by the Cultivate Creative Postgraduate Foundation of Jiangsu Province, China
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Zhu, Zd., Ni, Xh., Wang, W. et al. Dynamic experimental study on rock meso-cracks growth by digital image processing technique. J. Cent. South Univ. Technol. 15 (Suppl 2), 114–120 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11771-008-0445-5
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