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Partial support for Pouyan Asem, with no endorsement of the approach, was provided by the J. S. Braun/Braun Intertec Visiting Chair at the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering, University of Minnesota.

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Pouyan Asem received funding from the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering, University of Minnesota.

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    Pouyan Asem & Joseph F. Labuz

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PA, HF, and JFL: designed and analyzed the experiments, and contributed to the writing of the manuscript; PA and HF: conducted the experiments; PA: collected and analyzed the rock strength data.

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Asem, P., Fuselier, H. & Labuz, J.F. On a Four-Parameter Linear Failure Criterion. Rock Mech Rock Eng 54, 3369–3376 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-021-02451-w

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