The goal of this review paper is to provide a summary of selected discrete element and
hybrid finite–discrete element modeling techniques that have emerged in the field of rock …

Extracting gas from shale rocks is one of the current engineering challenges but offers the
prospect of cheap gas. Part of the development of an effective engineering solution for shale …

When shield tunnelling is constructed in complex geological conditions using a tunnel
boring machine, the disc cutter in the cutterhead easily wears to the failure state, particularly …

Temperature change often induces thermal stresses in brittle materials, such as rock,
causing cracking and hazardous accidents under certain circumstances. Within the …

Ground subsidence and sinkhole collapse are phenomena affecting regions of karst
geology worldwide. The rapid development of such phenomena around the Dead Sea in the …

The breakage of cutter ring during shield tunnelling is studied in this paper. The field
observation reveals that the major reason for the cutter ring breakage is attributed to the …

In order to investigate the mechanical behavior and failure mechanism of fissured granite
under triaxial compression, a three-dimensional grain-based model (GBM 3D) was …

This paper presents a three-dimensional numerical manifold method (NMM) for jointed rock
slope stability analysis. The main barriers for realistic rock slope stability analysis are …

The extent of the loosening zone in tunnels excavated through columnar jointed basalts is
studied with the numerical discontinuous deformation analysis (DDA) method. The structure …

A new algorithm to detect contacts between three-dimensional (3-D) arbitrarily shaped
polyhedral blocks for the discontinuous deformation analysis (DDA) method is presented in …