Fracture Characteristics and Geometric Fractal of Damaged Sandstone under Impact Load

Before the rock mass in the engineering is broken under load, it is usually in a state of varying degrees of damage. Aiming at the fracture characteristics of damaged sandstone under impact load, this paper adopts a method of the cyclic static load to cause the sandstone specimens to have varying degrees of damage. Then, the wave velocity of sandstone before and after the damage is measured using the nonmetallic acoustic velocimeter, and the change rule of damage factor is analyzed. Finally, the split Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB) is used to test the impact dynamics of sandstone with different damage degrees. The broken rock block is screened by a vibrating screen, and the crushing characteristics are analyzed. The results show that not only the damage factor of damaged sandstone but the growth rate increases, with the raising upper limit of stress. Under the impact load of the same incident energy, the fragmentation degree of the damaged sandstone increases with the increase of the upper stress limit, while the average diameter of the broken rock block decreases gradually, and the reduction rate increases first and then decreases.