Red-bed argillaceous siltstone is one of main types of rocks composing unstable slopes on both banks of water diversion project from the Yangtze to Huaihe River and is prone to deterioration after subjected to drying-wetting cycle conditions during water diversion project operation. The study of the damage degradation and the constitutive relationship of rocks subjected to drying-wetting cycle process is therefore of critical scientific importance. In this paper, laboratory tests were conducted to investigate the effect of drying-wetting cycles on the mechanical properties and microstructural characteristics. The experimental results show that the microstructure of the sample surface is no longer dense and uniform and the porosity of tested samples significantly increases with drying-wetting cycles increasing. After subjected to cycles of drying-wetting, the compaction stage of the stress-strain curve becomes longer with more pronounced nonlinear features, while uniaxial compression strength (UCS) and elastic modulus drop obviously. Combined with the evolution characteristics of microstructure found as the porosity grew, UCS and elastic modulus gradually decline. Additionally, from the perspective of energy analysis, the input energy density and dissipated energy density gradually extended with the increasing strain, and the elastic energy density increased first and then declined. As the number of drying-wetting cycles increases, the energy density of samples all present linear fell. Based on the evolution of dissipated energy, a new damage model of red-bed argillaceous siltstone subjected to drying-wetting cycles was established by introducing compaction coefficient. The coefficients of determination (⁠ $R2$⁠) of the constitutive model are always greater than 0.85, indicating that the proposed model is generally in good agreement with the experimental data under different drying-wetting cycles. This paper has specific research and reference value to understand the damage evolution characteristics of red-bed argillaceous siltstone under cyclic drying-wetting.

In order to solve the problem of low comprehensive utilization rate of industrial solid waste, this article focuses on the three problems of slag, which are steel slag, reuse of silica fume, and the strength enhancement and microscopic mechanism of slag-steel slag-silica fume composite material; analyzes the macro strength of the mixture under different curing ages from the two indexes of unconfined compressive strength and splitting tensile strength; and conducts microscopic tests such as X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, and Fourier transform infrared. The internal mechanism of hydration product formation and strength change of slag and steel wollastonite cementitious material under the excitation of sodium hydroxide and sodium silicate mixed solution as alkali activator was discussed. The strength results show that when the optimum mixture ratio of slag: steel slag: silica fume is 6:3:1, the modulus of lye is 1.2, the content of lye is 6 %, and the compressive strength of slag-steel slag-silica fume base polymer reaches 2.44 MPa under the standard curing condition of 28 day. The results show that the hydration products of geopolymer mainly consist of calcium-silicate-hydrate (C-S-H) gel and a small amount of ettringite (AFt) crystal. The addition of slag reduces the calcium/silicon ratio and increases the aluminum/silicon ratio, which makes the gel polymerization degree increase. C-S-H gel can be formed by the reaction of calcium hydroxide and silicon dioxide produced by steel slag hydration. Silica fume can provide highly reactive silicon for the system, and its seed effect and pozzolanic effect can accelerate the hydration process of the system.