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Deformation and Breakage Properties of Crushable Blocky Materials

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The author thanks the anonymous reviewers for their careful review, contributions and critics, which led to the improvement of the manuscript. The author is deeply indebted to Prof. Zhujiang Shen of Tsinghua University and Dr Tielin Chen of Northern Jiaotong University for their valuable discussion and help in performing the tests. This work was funded by The Ministry of Water Resources of the People’s Republic of China (Grant No. 200801014) and National Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 90815024 and 51009103).

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Liu, E. Deformation and Breakage Properties of Crushable Blocky Materials. Rock Mech Rock Eng 44, 373–377 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-010-0117-2

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