Abstract: Thermal–mechanical damage is an important feature of natural rock containing internal defects (microcracks and microvoids). However, this damage has not been studied thoroughly. This study improved a statistical damage ...

Abstract: To study the blast-induced dynamic response of jointed rock mass under high geostress field, a numerical model for the blast in the jointed rock mass was first established based on Ansys LS-DYNA software and the ...

Abstract: This study focuses on the nonlinear flow characteristics of a single rough-walled fracture in a marble sample subject to various confining pressures (5.0–50.0 MPa) and deviatoric stresses (0–60.0 MPa). First, a series of ...

Abstract: To explore the effect of the joint contact area and temperature on the dynamic property of rock joints and wave propagation in granite rockmass, an impact test of a jointed granite specimen was conducted with a split–Hopkinson ...

Abstract: One-dimensional nonlinear ground response analyses provide a more accurate characterization of the true nonlinear soil behavior than equivalent-linear procedures, but the application of nonlinear codes in practice has been ...