Abstract: Rockburst prediction is of crucial importance to the design and construction of many underground projects. Insufficient knowledge, lack of characterizing information, and noisy data restrain rock mechanics engineers from ...

Abstract: Rockburst prediction is of crucial importance to the design and construction of many underground projects. Insufficient knowledge, lack of characterizing information, and noisy data restrain rock mechanics engineers from ...

Abstract: Failure characteristics of rocks under different loading and unloading conditions have been an important subject of laboratory tests. This study aims to investigate the influence of the height to diameter (H/D) ratio on ...

Abstract: In this study, the effect of thermal shock (TS) on the mechanical properties of granite is investigated. Two schemes are performed to provide different cooling rates for the TS processes. Decreasing trend of dry density ...

Abstract: Underhand cut-and-fill stoping is an efficient, sustainable mining method that is particularly applicable to complicated mining conditions in which both the peripheral rocks and the orebody are extremely unstable. Considering ...

Abstract: Cubic specimens of three rocks—granite, marble, and sandstone, representing very strong rock, moderately strong rock, and weak rock, respectively—were tested under polyaxial stress. The objective was to determine the optimal ...

Abstract: Failure characteristics of rocks under polyaxial compression have been the subject of extensive laboratory testing, although a limited amount of literature is published on the numerical simulation of rock failure under ...