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Laboratory Investigation on Physical and Mechanical Properties of Granite After Heating and Water-Cooling Treatment

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High-temperature treatment may cause changes in physical and mechanical properties of rocks. Temperature changing rate (heating, cooling and both of them) plays an important role in those changes. Thermal conductivity tests, ultrasonic pulse velocity tests, gas permeability tests and triaxial compression tests are performed on granite samples after a heating and rapid cooling treatment in order to characterize the changes in physical and mechanical properties. Seven levels of temperature (from 25 to 900 °C) are used. It is found that the physical and mechanical properties of granite are significantly deteriorated by the thermal treatment. The porosity shows a significant increase from 1.19% at the initial state to 6.13% for samples heated to 900 °C. The increase in porosity is mainly due to three factors: (1) a large number of microcracks caused by the rapid cooling rate; (2) the mineral transformation of granite through high-temperature heating and water-cooling process; (3) the rapid cooling process causes the mineral particles to weaken. As the temperature of treatment increases, the thermal conductivity and P-wave velocity decrease while the gas permeability increases. Below 200 °C, the elastic modulus and cohesion increase with temperature increasing. Between 200 and 500 °C, the elastic modulus and cohesion have no obvious change with temperature. Beyond 500 °C, as the temperature increases, the elastic modulus and cohesion obviously decrease and the decreasing rate becomes slower with the increase in confining pressure. Poisson’s ratio and internal frictional coefficient have no obvious change as the temperature increases. Moreover, there is a transition from a brittle to ductile behavior when the temperature becomes high. At 900 °C, the granite shows an obvious elastic–plastic behavior.

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    Fan Zhang, Jianjian Zhao, Frederic Skoczylas & Jianfu Shao

  2. State Key Laboratory of Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China

    Fan Zhang & Dawei Hu

  3. University of Lille, Laboratory of Mechanics of Lille, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France

    Jianfu Shao

  4. Ecole Centrale de Lille, Laboratory of Mechanics of Lille, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France

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Zhang, F., Zhao, J., Hu, D. et al. Laboratory Investigation on Physical and Mechanical Properties of Granite After Heating and Water-Cooling Treatment. Rock Mech Rock Eng 51, 677–694 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-017-1350-8

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