Lateral Loading of a Rigid Rock Socket Embedded in a Damage-Susceptible Poroelastic Solid

Abstract

The paper presents a computational assessment of the influence of damage on the behavior of a rigid rock socket embedded in a fluid-saturated poroelastic solid. The iterative computational scheme takes into consideration the irreversible alteration in the fluid transport characteristics that takes place as a result of damage and the stress dependency of the isotropic damage process. Numerical results illustrate the influence of the stress-state-dependent damage process on transient consolidation response of the rock socket head displacement.