HR: 0800h
AN: T51A-1318    [Abstracts]
TI: Mechanical Characteristics of rocks cored from Hanging Wall of Chelungpu Fault
AU: Lu, C Y
EM: chia@ntu.edu.tw
AU: Chen, C W
EM: r92521123@ntu.edu.tw
AU: * Hu, J C
EM: jchu@ntu.edu.tw
AU: Tsai, L S
EM: lstsai@ntu.edu.tw
AU: Lin, M L
EM: mlin@ntu.edu.tw
AU: Jeng, F S
EM: fsjeng@ntu.edu.tw
AB: Representatives mechanical parameters of the strata involved in fault movements are essentially needed when conducting numerical simulation of fault movements. To study the mechanical characteristic of the rocks, to conduct the subsequent numberical analyses, and to interpret the Chelungpu fault movements, this research systematically studied the mechanical properties of the rocks cored from the TCDP program. Accordingly, the samples sampled from the cores are subjected to a series of mechanical experiments, including stress-path controlled pure shear tests to study their physical properties as well as their strengths and deformability with elastic and plastic strained being distinguished. Meanwhile, temperature factor are also conducted so as to study its influence on the rocks. It was found that the rocks, with a depth ranging from 450 to 1300m, mainly comprise of silt stone, fossil-riched sandstone and sandstone, with a porosities of 2%, 6% and 15% and uniaxial compressive strengths of 67~73 MPa, 61~65 MPa and 8~11 MPa, respectively. Accordingly, we can find that the strength and deformation of rocks relate to their porosities. According to the pure shear path test results, it was also found that the behavior of the last two types rocks, including the non-linear elastic deformation, plastic strain locking and the elastic strain, was coupled with shear stress. As to the temperature , its influence on the rocks was found to be not significant. On the other hand, the experimental results indicate that the Drucker-Prager failure criteria can describe the failure envelope line of these three type rocks. The strength of these rocks is independent with stress-path. Finally, the constitutive parameters of these sandstones were obtained, which enables realistic prediction the deformational behavior of the rocks in the near future.
DE: 8102 Continental contractional orogenic belts and inversion tectonics
DE: 8150 Plate boundary: general (3040)
SC: Tectonophysics [T]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005