Abstract: Prediction of rock mass strength is important for estimating stability in rock engineering projects. In this paper, a novel strength criterion was proposed to determine the strength of a jointed rock mass subjected to a ...

Abstract: A combined theoretical and numerical study is carried out to quantify the influence of material properties (e.g., real part and loss factor of Young’s modulus, material density) and geometrical parameters (e.g., layer ...

Abstract: A moment tensor analysis of acoustic emission was applied to quantitatively study the microcracking mechanism and damage evolution process in cylindrical specimens of granite and sandstone under diametral compression. It ...