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 …

The design of underground hard rock pillars plays a crucial role in the safety and stability of
underground mining operations. Ensuring safe and efficient resource extraction while …

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 …

Spalling and rockburst are two common failure modes in deep hard-rock tunnels and they
exhibit a strong correlation. In this paper, the process of rockburst induced by spalling is …

To estimate the energy storage and release performances of rock pillars in high stress and
gain insights into the prevention and control of rockburst hazards from an energy aspect …

Obtaining a reasonable assessment of the stability of high-level pillars stabilized using
cemented backfill is particularly important when designing deeply-buried metal mines. This …

To obtain the precise calculation method for the peak energy density and energy evolution
properties of rocks subjected to uniaxial compression (UC) before the post-peak stage …

The stability of crown pillar is critical during the transition from open pit to underground
mining. Mining-induced fractures in the pillar form water seepage channels, which can …

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 …

Increasing demand for metals caused by global economic growth and exploitation of
shallow mineral deposits forces mineral extraction to go deeper. A direct consequence of …