The purpose of this review is to discuss the development and the contribution of the
experiments and numerical simulations in compression‐induced failure characteristics of …

Peridynamic (PD) theory is an integral-type nonlocal continuum mechanics theory that
reformulates the equation of motion in local continuum mechanics as an integrodifferential …

Fracture coalescence, which plays an important role in the behavior of brittle materials, is
investigated by loading rock-like specimens with two and three pre-existing flaws made by …

A micro-mechanical based numerical manifold method (NMM) is proposed in this study to
investigate the micro-mechanisms underlying rock macroscopic response and fracture …

Step-path failure is a typical instable mode of rock slopes with intermittent joints. To gain
deeper insight into the step-path failure mechanism, six rock slopes with different intermittent …

Abstract for a deeper understanding of the deformation failure behavior of jointed rock,
numerical compression simulations are carried out on a rock specimen containing non …

Flaws widely exist in engineering rock masses, which significantly influence the overall
mechanical behaviors (strength, elastic modulus and failure, etc.) of rock masses. The study …

Starting from the concept of Representative Volume Element (RVE) at the mesoscopic scale,
a statistical meso-damage mechanical method (SMDMM) is developed to model the trans …

Rock masses consist of various discontinuities that significantly affect the crack development
patterns which dominates the ultimate failure of geostructures. The interaction of the pre …

The present paper is concerned with numerical simulation of two-dimensional (2-D) cracks
and material interfaces by an effective computational approach. A local mesh refinement in …