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Harmonising Rock Engineering and the Environment – Qian Zhou (eds) © 2012 Taylor Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-0-415-80444-8 A constitutive contact law for discrete element modeling of sandstone L. Li SINTEF Petroleum Research, Trondheim, Norway ABSTRACT: A constitutive contact law has been developed in order to simulate the mechanical behavior of sandstone using a 3-dimensional discrete element model. The contact law has included the non-linear elastic deformation and the plastic deformation. Simulations of triaxial compression tests using such a model indicate that the model captures a few important aspects of the mechanical behavior of natural sandstones: The bulk modulus increases with increasing hydrostatic stress. With higher confining stress in the triaxial tests, both the peak axial stress and the tangent modulus at 50% of the peak differential stress get higher, while the Poisson ratio at 50% of the peak differential stress becomes smaller. The model has been applied to simulate hole drilling in sandstone. It demonstrates how the model can be used to analyze excavation-induced stress alteration and mechanical damage in the rock. Subject: Modeling and numerical methods Keywords : numerical modeling, rock properties, stability analysis 1 INTRODUCTION will behave linearly elastic before the bond breakage occurs in the model. This is often not true with natural sandstone (e.g., The mechanical behavior of the sandstone is related to its Fjær, 2009). microstructure and heterogeneity. Difficulties exist in mod- Li Fjær (2008)