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Some Fundamental Issues and Verification of 3DEC in Modeling Wave Propagation in Jointed Rock Masses

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The research is financially supported by China Scholarship Council, Swiss National Science Foundation (200021-116536), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central University in China (SWJTU11ZT33).

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  1. MOE Key Laboratory of Transportation Tunnel Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, China

    X. F. Deng & S. G. Chen

  2. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), School of Architecture Civil and Environmental Engineering, Laboratory for Rock Mechanics (LMR), 1005, Lausanne, Switzerland

    X. F. Deng, J. B. Zhu & J. Zhao

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Deng, X.F., Zhu, J.B., Chen, S.G. et al. Some Fundamental Issues and Verification of 3DEC in Modeling Wave Propagation in Jointed Rock Masses. Rock Mech Rock Eng 45, 943–951 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-012-0287-1

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