Concrete-rock interfaces are commonly encountered in civil engineering applications, where structural defects and interfacial instability may lead to significant safety risks. This study investigates the fracture behavior of concrete-sandstone composite specimens under varying interface roughness and inclination angles. The crack stress evolution, including crack closure stress, crack initiation stress, crack coalescence stress, and peak stress, was evaluated using acoustic emission (AE)-based micro-fracture theory and energy analysis. Digital image correlation (DIC) was employed to monitor strain field variations at each critical stress stage. Furthermore, macroscopic failure patterns under different interface conditions were comparatively analyzed using both conventional crack classification methods and a Gaussian mixture model-based clustering approach based on RA-AF characteristics. The results indicate that, in the traditional crack classification approach, tensile cracks account for more than 90 % of the cracks observed in specimens with varying interface roughness and inclination angles, suggesting a relatively simple failure mechanism. In contrast, the crack classification based on Gaussian mixture clustering reveals a tensile-shear mixed failure mode, which aligns more closely with the macroscopic failure behavior of the specimens. Furthermore, significant variations in AE amplitude entropy, AE average frequency entropy, and AE energy entropy are observed across the four stress stages preceding specimen failure, demonstrating their potential as precursor indicators for failure in concrete-rock interfaces
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