Since underground structures such as tunnels are inevitably surrounded by rocks, their long-
term safety and stability are primarily governed by the comportment of these materials. Being …

A state-of-the-art review has been conducted in this work on soil constitutive modeling,
which has emphasized on: soil type, ground-water conditions, loading conditions, structural …

The stability of the sandwich composite structures formed by leaving coal pillar, roof rock
and floor rock (RCF) is of great significance to safe production of coal mines. The failure of …

This paper presents an extensive laboratory investigation of the non-linear rheological
mechanical characteristics of hard rock under cyclic incremental loading and unloading. A …

In underground mining, rock roofs with different thicknesses have distinct failure patterns
under the complex stress. To understand the height/diameter ratio (H/D) on failure properties …

Water is an important factor influencing the long-term stability of underground construction.
In the present work, a series of uniaxial compressive strength tests and multistage creep …

A series of triaxial creep tests were carried out on fractured limestone specimens under
multilevel loading and unloading cycles to capture elastoviscoplastic strain components. A …

Precursor information of rock fracture is a prerequisite for rock dynamic disaster (RDD)
prediction. To investigate the precursor information of rock fracture based on pressure …

The freezing method is an effective approach for constructing coal mine shafts through water-
rich soft rock strata. The frozen wall produced by this technique stops the movement of water …

Rock engineering especially deep rock engineering undergoing long-term effects of external
loading and gravity all or most may gradually damage deformation or creep deformation …