Abstract: Mechanical properties of rock are affected by the specimen slenderness ratios. However, the temperature-dependent nature of rock with different slenderness ratios have not been investigated. To better understand the ...

Abstract: Understanding the contact behaviors of rock joint is of fundamental importance in many rock engineering practices. Most of the available contact models rely on the spatial features of asperity peaks as input parameters, ...

Abstract: Dry shrinkage cracking of soil is a common phenomenon in nature. The shrinking and cracking of soil have been linked to several geological disasters. To simulate dry shrinkage cracking in soil, we present a continuous 2D ...

Abstract: The asperity morphology has profound influences on the failure characteristics and shear strength of rock joints. To investigate these influences, degradation characteristics and mechanical properties were studied based ...