Rock engineering is highly susceptible to cyclic loads resulting from earthquakes, quarrying
or rockbursts. Acquiring the fatigue properties and failure mechanism of rocks is pivotal for …

The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive state of the art of fatigue and cyclic
loading of natural rock materials. Papers published in the literature are classified and listed …

This work aims at investigating the fracture evolution and energy characteristics of marble
subjected to fatigue cyclic loading and confining pressure unloading (FC-CPU) conditions …

In recent years, many studies have shown that it is meaningful to place rocks under stress
paths corresponding to various loading and unloading conditions. However, the deformation …

Rocks in underground engineering such as coal mining and tunnel excavating applications
are usually loaded and unloaded repeatedly. The relationship between the strength and …

Slabbing/spalling and rockburst are unconventional types of failure of hard rocks under
conditions of unloading and various dynamic loads in environments with high and complex …

Deep rocks encountered in underground engineering are frequently in complex in situ
environments and experience both excavation disturbance during construction and cyclic …

The naturally fractured rock in the open pit slope is susceptible to irreversible damage
caused by fatigue loads related to freeze-thaw weathering, blasting vibration, earthquakes …

Many civil and mining related rock structures (eg tunnel walls, excavation roofs and ribs,
bridge abutments, dam and road foundations) are subjected to dynamic loading due to, for …

In practical engineering, it is a common phenomenon of rocks subjected to cyclic loading.
Such as mining engineering, subgrade engineering and earthquake engineering. In order to …