The purpose of this review paper is to present the techniques, advances, problems and
likely future developments in numerical modelling for rock mechanics. Such modelling is …

One of the research direction of Horst Lippmann during his whole scientific career was
devoted to the possibilities to explain complex material behavior by generalized continua …

Guidelines for Open Pit Slope Design is a comprehensive account of the open pit slope
design process. Created as an outcome of the Large Open Pit (LOP) project, an international …

Bedrock and concrete lining are typical composite structures in the engineering field and the
stability of the geological body and engineering body is directly connected to the mechanical …

Abstract The Opalinus Clay (OPA) is an argillaceous rock formation selected to host a deep
geologic repository for high-level nuclear waste in Switzerland. It has been shown that the …

Hard rocks exhibit three-dimensional (3D) stress-dependent failure under true triaxial
compression. The deformability and strength of hard rocks under true triaxial compression …

Flexural toppling is one of the main failure modes of natural and manmade anti-dip layered
rock slopes. Based on cantilever slab tensile theory, the failure mechanism of flexural …

The stability of large underground caverns in steeply dip** layered rock masses is not
only affected by the engineering geological characteristics of surrounding rock masses, but …

The occurrence and failure mechanisms of flexural toppling must be considered by
researchers and engineers who perform stability analysis of anti-dip rock slope. Taking the …

In this article, we formulate an anisotropic elastoplastic Cosserat continua model for shear
failure in stratified geomaterials. Considering the dip angle between local and global …