The paper presents a description of the methods used to model rock as discontinuous
media. The objective of the work is to bring to the geomechanics community recent …

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 …

The failure mechanism and failure mode of anisotropic rock masses are very different from
those of isotropic rock masses. For unsupported tunnels, the failure modes of anisotropic …

Rock mass failure is a particularly complex process that involves the opening and sliding of
existing discontinuities and the fracturing of the intact rock. This paper adopts an advanced …

Landslides involving solid–fluid interaction such as submarine landslides and landslide
dams occur frequently around the world, which may bring severe damage to human lives …

Discontinuous deformation analysis (DDA) is a numerical method for analyzing dynamic
behaviors of an assemblage of distinct blocks, with the block displacements as the basic …

This paper extends the discontinuous deformation analysis (DDA) by using an additional
evaluation of edge-to-edge contact, with the aim that it can be used to accurately model the …

To analyze the movement of discrete rock block systems, a nodal-based three-dimensional
discontinuous deformation analysis method with contact potential (3D-NDDACP) is …

In the traditional discontinuous deformation analysis (DDA) method, the implicit time
integration scheme is used to integrate equations of motion for modeling the mechanical …

The most recently proposed three-dimensional (3D) contact potential-based discontinuous
deformation analysis (3D-CPDDA) method is further applied for wave propagation problems …