The understanding of the fatigue failure characteristics istics in rock under shear stress is considered important in designing underground structures. However, the study on direct shear test under cyclic loading has not been carried out extensively. Therefore, in this paper, we have investigated the time-dependent behavior of Kimachi sandstone and Tohoku marble under loading shear stress.
Results obtained from the experiments are as follows;
(1) Upper and lower shear displacements decreased with increasing number of cycles.
(2) The shear displacement-number of cycles curve in the fatigue process of rock was found to consist of three stages as typically shown in Fig. 7 (A-B, B-D, D-E).
(3) Shear stress-shear displacement hysteresis loops of both rock specimens gradually becomes narrower with increasing number of cycles irrespective of the ratio of shear stress.
(4) AE activity is seen in the primary (A-B) and tertiary stages (D-E). Especially, AE events occurs drastically in tertiary stage.
Based on the above results, the fatigue process is believed to consist of the following steps;(a) in the primary stage, pre-existing cracks and pores in the rock become closed, then (b) in the secondary stage, micro cracks are developed and proceeded with increasing number of cycles, and (c) in the tertiary stage, micro cracks coalesce into macro cracks and lead to the failure of the rock specimen.
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