Over the past two decades, immense research efforts at a global level have extended CT-
Scan technology across several engineering fields. The state-of-the-art of the most relevant …

Rising mining costs and fewer high-grade ore deposits have necessitated a search for
alternative methods for the recovery of metals from deposits that are no longer economically …

Understanding the thermal effects on rock is critical for the exploration of geothermal
resources and the temperature‐driven evolution of Earth. The macroscale mechanical …

Microwave irradiation has been considered as one of the most promising approaches to
assisting mechanical rock breakage in rock engineering. Understanding the influence of …

In many rock engineering structures, the fracture network's complexity and the generated
fractures' roughness are immensely important for understanding the hydraulic conductivity of …

The effect of grain size heterogeneity on the mechanical and microcracking behavior of Lac
du Bonnet (LdB) granite during heating, cooling, and uniaxial compression loading is …

Understanding the fracturing mechanisms of rock on both macro-and micro-scale is
important for properly designing rock engineering applications. However, there is still a lack …

The microwave-assisted rock fragmentation has been proven to be a promising approach to
reducing cutting tools wear and improving efficiency in rock excavation and crushing …

Imaging cracks is a direct way to learn the rock breaking mechanism beneath a PDC cutter.
In this study, a series of linear cutting tests and precise observations of cracks were …

Fully-coupled thermo-mechanical simulations are implemented in COMSOL Multiphysics to
investigate micro-scale stress-strain variability in pegmatite specimens subjected to thermal …