DEMIN - Departamento de Engenharia de Minas
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Item Mechanics of Cosserat generalized continuum and modelling in structural geology.(2020) Moraes, Anderson; Figueiredo, Rodrigo Peluci de; Vargas Júnior, Eurípedes do AmaralA concepção e interpretação de modelos em geologia estrutural, especialmente os numéricos, são eminentemente baseadas nos princípios da mecânica do contínuo clássico, onde a formulação intrínseca possui alto grau de simetria em sua própria essência. No entanto, as estruturas geológicas apresentam em todas as escalas de observação um nível notável de assimetria. Por outro lado, a mecânica do contínuo generalizado de Cosserat, ao incorporar comprimentos característicos da estrutura da matéria em suas leis constitutivas e em seus critérios de ruptura, conduz naturalmente à assimetria e à heterogeneidade dos campos cinemáticos e dinâmicos responsáveis pela estruturação presente em rochas. Baseado na formulação intrínseca dos meios contínuos de Cosserat, o presente trabalho enfatiza modelos conceituais, analíticos e numéricos que sugerem uma ampliação na interpretação da gênese e do desenvolvimento de estruturas geológicas, em particular as encontradas em zonas de falhas.Item Application of the discrete element method for modeling of rock crack propagation and coalescence in the step-path failure mechanism.(2013) Camones, Luis Arnaldo Mejía; Vargas Júnior, Eurípedes do Amaral; Figueiredo, Rodrigo Peluci de; Velloso, Raquel QuadrosThe present study evaluates the discrete element method (DEM) as a tool for understanding the step-path failure mechanism in fractured rock masses. Initially, the study simulates crack propagation and coalescence in biaxial and triaxial laboratory tests. The results of this analysis showthat the DEMaccurately represents these processes in comparison to other studies in the technical literature. The crack propagation and coalescence processes are important in the step-path failure mechanism for slopes. Simple examples of this mechanism were modeled, and their results were compared with those of the analytical model proposed by Jennings (1970). Among the possibilities suggested by Jennings,modelingwith DEMdid not provide a good approximation for the case of coplanar cracks, forwhich failures in the intact rock bridges should only be caused by shear forces. Inmodelingwith DEM, tensile failures occur within the sliding block, generating forces that are not considered in the Jennings model. The non-coplanar crack condition provided a better approximation, since the Jennings model formulation for this case includes the tensile failure of the rock. The main advantage of the DEM over other computational tools is its micromechanical representation of discontinuous media, which permits a better understanding of the step-path failure mechanism. However, good calibration of the macroscopic parameters of the rock and its discontinuities is necessary to obtain good results.Item Numerical analysis of sand/solids production in boreholes considering fluid-mechanical coupling in a Cosserat continuum.(2011) Muller, André Luís; Vargas Júnior, Eurípedes do Amaral; Vaz, Luiz Eloy; Figueiredo, Rodrigo Peluci de; Gonçalves, Clemente JoséSand/solids production is a serious problem faced by the petroleum industry during production stages. Particles/groups of particles of the formation rock are produced together with pumped oil or gas causing highly damaging effects on pipes and valves. This phenomena can be caused by several factors including the stresses developed around the boreholes/perforations and fluid flow, which break and erode the rock, respectively. Numerical simulation of sand/solids production presents a considerable challenge as intricacies of failure processes must be correctly simulated. This paper presents a finite element based procedure for simulating the process of sand/solids production, considering fluid- mechanical coupling in an elasto-plastic Cosserat continuum. It is believed that the enhanced deformation modes included into Cosserat continua may contribute for proper modeling of the deformational behavior and failure modes of the cemented/non-cemented granular materials involved. Bogdanova-Bontcheva and Lippmann’s constitutive model was implemented in order to model the granular materials involved. Finally, the work presents the analysis of sand/solids production in a hypothetical borehole. For comparison purposes, different characteristic lengths of the material are adopted and analysis is also performed using standard continua.Item Mechanical characterization of rock splitting planes in granitic rocks.(2006) Almeida, Luiz Carlos Rodrigues de; Vargas Júnior, Eurípedes do Amaral; Figueiredo, Rodrigo Peluci deItem Analysis of bookshelf mechanisms using the mechanics of Cosserat generalized continua.(2004) Figueiredo, Rodrigo Peluci de; Vargas Júnior, Eurípedes do Amaral; Moraes, AndersonBookshelf type mechanisms are commonly used to explain antithetic accommodation of deformations caused by direct shear. Stress analysis of such mechanisms have been proposed, mainly through the use of classic Mohr circle graphical constructions. The present work introduces an alternative framework for analysis, the mechanics of generalized Cosserat continua, although maintaining the same tools (Mohr circle construction). In this type of mechanics, kinematics of the material points incorporates independent rotational degrees of freedom besides the classic translational ones. In the equilibrium equations, quantities involving moments are generated and the stress tensor is in the general case non-symmetric. Such characteristics of generalized Cosserat continua make it suitable for the analysis of Bookshelf mechanisms, as these are, in essence, rotational antithetic mechanisms induced by shear stresses having different magnitudes in perpendicular planes. The paper applies the mechanics of generalized continua to the analysis of a specific bookshelf mechanism, related to crustal extension. In the Appendices, a review of the generalized Cosserat continua and details of the graphical Mohr circle representation of stresses for such media are presented.