Transactions of The Japanese Society of Irrigation, Drainage and Reclamation Engineering
Online ISSN : 1884-7234
Print ISSN : 0387-2335
ISSN-L : 0387-2335
Evaluating Crack Propagation in a Cohesive Soil using J integral
Shinichi NISHIMURA
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2006 Volume 2006 Issue 242 Pages 235-240

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It is believed that cracks in a dam body or foundation are developed by water pressure and are considered to be one of the causes of hydraulic fracturing. But the propagation of cracks has not been examined in detail. Though stress intensity factor KI is one of the parameters for evaluating the propagation of cracks, the calculation of KI is almost difficult in the case of fill-type dams because of the shape of the foundation or the embankment. Then, the evaluation of the crack progress in a cohesive soil was attempted with J integral as is one of the parameters for the propagation of crack as well as stress intensity factor KI. J integral was calculated by the tensile test and finite element analysis. As a result, the calculated J integral values were not controlled by the length of the initial cracks and attained an almost constant value. Hence, it is considered that J integral can be used as a parameter that evaluates the progress of cracks in a cohesive soil.
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