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Review of modeling tool‒rock frictional contact with a blunt PDC cutter

Yaneng Zhou, George Z. Voyiadjis()

Center for GeoInformatics, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 70803, USA

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Abstract

The mechanisms of tool‒rock frictional contact are reviewed, with a focus on recent advances in numerical modeling. An idealized problem is defined for tool‒rock frictional contact with a rigid blunt tool sliding on the surface of a half-space. The governing dimensionless parameters are summarized for rocks characterized by various rock material models. For elastoplastic rock, the mechanism of frictional contact is governed primarily by an elastoplastic parameter $η$ , which contrasts a characteristic elastic stress with a yield strength. For poroelastoplastic rocks, the mechanism is controlled by both $η$ and $λ$ , where $λ$ is a dimensionless parameter representing the ratio between a geometrical length scale and a characteristic dimension with pore pressure perturbation. For quasibrittle rocks with induced isotropic damage, the mechanism is controlled by both $η$ and $ξ$ , where $ξ$ is a dimensionless brittleness number that contrasts a geometrical length scale with a material length scale. For anisotropic damage, the mechanism is governed by $η$ , $ξ$ , and $ζ$ , where $ζ$ is the damage coefficient that controls the ratio of damage in different directions. The influence of these governing dimensionless parameters on the dimensionless average contact stress $\tilde{Π}$ is summarized in different regimes.

Keywords

frictional contact contact stress tool‒rock interaction numerical modeling

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Journal of Intelligent Construction

Volume 3 Issue 1,
March 2025

Article number: 9180079

DOI: 10.26599/JIC.2025.9180079

Cite this article:

Zhou Y, Voyiadjis GZ. Review of modeling tool‒rock frictional contact with a blunt PDC cutter. Journal of Intelligent Construction, 2025, 3(1): 9180079. https://doi.org/10.26599/JIC.2025.9180079

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