Mineral grains serve as the basic units of rocks. Understanding rock materials at the grain-
scale level allows us to unveil the underlying fundamental mechanisms, thereby facilitating …

The influence of the loading rate on the mode I fracture property of rocks has been
extensively investigated through experiments. However, the rate-effect of the dynamic mode …

The impact loads have a significant influence on the dynamic strength and cracking
behaviours of pre-cracked rocks, which plays a key role in the stability and safety of rock …

The dynamic mode I and mode II fracture of rock have been widely investigated over the
past decades. However, the lack of dynamic mode III fracture testing method and the rare …

Granite is a heterogeneous material characterized by a significant population of
mechanically distinct grain boundaries, which exert a substantial influence on crack …

Dynamic loadings, such as earthquakes, blasts, and impacts, are commonly encountered in
mining and underground infrastructures, and therefore predicting the failure of geomaterials …

To explore the mechanical characteristics and failure mechanisms of rock shear fracture
under dynamic disturbance, the laboratory shear test and numerical simulation based on …

Understanding dynamic shear behaviours of rock under quasi-static confinement and
dynamic loads is not only of great importance in underground engineering structures, but …

A long-term opening problem in geophysics and engineering is the generation mechanism
of rock pulverization (eg, fault gouge) within the shear zone when subjected to triaxial stress …

In this study, a three-dimensional (3D) combined finite-discrete element method (FDEM)
based simulator, which enables the robust simulation of full-scale triaxial Hopkinson bar (Tri …