Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering

, Volume 45, Issue 3, pp 439–444 | Cite as

Deformation Mechanisms of Crushable Blocky Materials Upon Lateral Unloading for a Biaxial Stress State

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Keywords

Biaxial tests Crushable blocky materials Deformation mechanism Lateral unloading 
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Acknowledgments

The author thanks the anonymous reviewer for his careful review, contributions and critics, which led to the improvement of the manuscript. The author is deeply indebted to the late Prof. Zhujiang Shen of Tsinghua University and Prof. Tielin Chen of Beijing Jiaotong University for their valuable discussion and help in performing the tests. This work was funded by National Science Foundation of China (Grant No.51009103).

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.State Key Laboratory of Hydraulics and Mountain River Engineering, College of Water Resources and HydropowerSichuan UniversityChengduPeople’s Republic of China

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