A shear-compression damage model for the simulation of underground mining by block caving

arXiv2012.11118MaRDI QIDQ6356574FDOQ6356574

Authors: Eric Bonnetier, Sergio Gaete, Alejandro Jofre, Rodrigo Lecaros, Gino I. Montecinos, Jaime H. Ortega, Jorge San Martín 

Publication date: 20 December 2020

Abstract: Block caving is an ore extraction technique used in the copper mines of Chile. It uses gravity to ease the breaking of rocks, and to facilitate the extraction from the mine of the resulting mixture of ore and waste. To simulate this extraction process numerically and better understand its impact on the mine environment, we study 3 variational models for damage, based on the gradient damage model of Pham and Marigo (2010). In these models, the damage criterion may exhibit an anisotropic dependence on the spherical and deviatoric parts of the stress tensor. We report simulations that satisfactorily represent the expected evolution of the stress field in a block caving operation.

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