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An improved virtual extensometer method enhances crack opening displacement (COD) measurement accuracy in complex rock fractures. This method accounts for crack development, significantly reducing errors compared to traditional techniques for rock mechanics analysis.

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Area of Science:

  • Rock Mechanics
  • Fracture Mechanics
  • Geotechnical Engineering

Background:

  • Virtual extensometer methods face limitations in measuring crack opening displacement (COD) during complex multi-crack propagation in rocks.
  • Digital Image Correlation (DIC) local deformation measurement errors are a key challenge.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To theoretically analyze DIC local deformation measurement errors.
  • To propose an improved virtual extensometer method for accurate COD measurement in complex rock fractures.
  • To enhance the accuracy of virtual extensometer measurements under multi-crack conditions.

Main Methods:

  • Theoretical analysis of DIC local deformation measurement errors.
  • Development of an improved virtual extensometer method considering temporal and spatial crack characteristics.
  • Validation through numerical simulations (strain localization bands) and laboratory tests (single crack, 2D multi-fracture simulation).

Main Results:

  • Established criteria for virtual extensometer placement relative to crack strain localization zones and subset size for accurate COD measurement.
  • Demonstrated that the improved method significantly reduces COD measurement errors (max 3.61%) compared to the traditional method (max 21.20%) in complex multi-crack scenarios.
  • Showed that optimal virtual extensometer distance increases with crack development and strain localization zone width.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed improved virtual extensometer method accurately measures COD in complex multi-crack rock fracture scenarios.
  • The findings provide crucial guidelines for optimizing virtual extensometer application in rock mechanics.
  • This research advances the reliability of deformation measurements in geomechanical studies involving intricate fracture networks.