To investigate the stability of a soil-rock-mixture (SRM) slope subjected to sequential
excavation, two modifications are made to the numerical manifold method (NMM). One …

The partition of unity based methods, such as the extended finite element method and the
numerical manifold method, are able to construct global functions that accurately reflect local …

A Voronoi-element based explicit numerical manifold method is adopted to investigate the
evolution process and failure characteristics of the excavation damaged zone around a …

Transient heat conduction is a common problem in engineering. However, related studies in
anisotropic materials remain relatively scarce for their complexity, compared with isotropic …

There are a series of human or natural activities, including earthquakes, explosions, and
rockbursts, which have caused a number of safety accidents in geotechnical engineering …

Aiming to accurately simulate seismic dynamic response of rock masses using the numerical
manifold method (NMM), boundary settings must be treated carefully. In this paper, 4 issues …

The high computational costs associated with the implicit formulation of discontinuous
deformation analysis (DDA) have been one of the major obstacles for its implementation to …

Due to the use of dual cover systems, ie, the mathematical cover and the physical cover, the
numerical manifold method (NMM) is able to solve physical problems with boundary …

In this study, a two-dimensional Voronoi element based–explicit numerical manifold method
(VE-ENMM) is developed as a new approach to investigate the acoustic emission …

A three-dimensional viscoelastic constitutive model of solid propellant grains incorporating
with viscoelastic Poisson's ratio is proposed. To apply the new constitutive equations in the …