In the failure of quasi-brittle materials such as rocks, microstuctural damage always
precedes macroscopic fracture and manifests itself in the formation of fracture process zones …

The purpose of this review is to discuss the development and the contribution of the
experiments and numerical simulations in compression‐induced failure characteristics of …

This paper experimentally evaluates and quantitatively compares stress-induced damage
progression and acoustic emission (AE) in granite and sandstone based on continuous …

In recent years, many studies have shown that it is meaningful to place rocks under stress
paths corresponding to various loading and unloading conditions. However, the deformation …

For a full understanding of the cracking processes in granite, uniaxial compression tests are
conducted on prismatic specimens with pre-existing flaws, and digital imaging and AE …

Uniaxial compression tests with combined acousto-optical monitoring techniques are
conducted on flawed granite specimens, with the aim of investigating the fracture-related …

An evidently precursory acoustic emission (AE) time series, characterized by a time‐
reversed Omori law, is registered prior to the unconfined catastrophic rupture of brittle …

In nature, rock discontinuities, eg, cracks, voids and joints, are usually three-dimensional,
which to a large extent control the volumetric fracturing behaviors of rock masses …

Cracking of rocks and rock-like materials exhibits a rich variety of patterns where tensile
(mode I) and shear (mode II) fractures are often interwoven. These mixed-mode fractures are …

The naturally fractured rock in the open pit slope is susceptible to irreversible damage
caused by fatigue loads related to freeze-thaw weathering, blasting vibration, earthquakes …