Articles

1. A Micromechanics-Based Multiscale Constitutive Model for Brittle to Ductile Behavior of Porous Geomaterial

   • W. Q. Shen

   Original Paper 03 May 2024

   

2. Application of Relationship model for the Measurement While Drilling Data to Predict Rock Uniaxial Compressive Strength for Tunneling

   • Ruijie Zhao
   • Shaoshuai Shi
   • Shijie Yang

   Original Paper 03 May 2024

   

3. Relaxation of Viscoelastic Properties of Sandstones: Hysteresis and Anisotropy

   • R. Zeman
   • J. Kober
   • M. Scalerandi

   Original Paper 03 May 2024

   

4. Porosity Evaluation of Coarse Fillings in Single Joint for Artificial Rock Using Electrical Resistivity

   • Tae-Hyun Kong
   • Haeju Do
   • Tae-Min Oh

   Original Paper 01 May 2024

   

5. DEM Analysis of the P-Wave Anisotropy Response to the Microstructure of Sedimentary Rock Under Biaxial Compression

   • Lingxiao Zheng
   • Fengshou Zhang
   • Ming Peng

   Original Paper 01 May 2024

   

6. Influence of Index Properties and Semi-Quantitative Geological Characteristics of Brittle Rocks on Their Post-Peak Behavior

   • Sergio Flores
   • Kimie Suzuki Morales
   • Pía Lois-Morales

   Original Paper 30 April 2024

   

7. Analysis of Fracture Network Formation Mechanisms and Main Controlling Factors of Methane Explosion Fracturing in Deep Shale Reservoir

   • Yu Wang
   • Cheng Zhai
   • Ning Luo

   Original Paper 29 April 2024

   

8. Stress-Release Technology and Engineering Application of Advanced Center Drifts in a Super-Deep Soft-Rock Tunnel: A Case Study of the Haba Snow Mountain Tunnel

   • Jinpeng Zhao
   • Zhongsheng Tan
   • Fengxi Wang

   Original Paper 28 April 2024

   

9. Simulation of Shear and Tensile Fractures Using Ductile Phase Field Modelling with the Calibration of P Wave Velocity Measurement and Moment Tensor Inversion

   • Xu Li
   • Guangyao Si
   • Ismet Canbulat

   Original Paper Open access 27 April 2024

   

10. Modeling of Hydro-mechanical Coupled Fracture Propagation in Quasi-brittle Rocks Using a Variational Phase-Field Method

    • Shi-fan Liu
    • Wei Wang
    • Wan-qing Shen

    Original Paper 27 April 2024

    

11. Study on the Effect of Filling on the Properties and Fracture Behavior of Gabbro with En-echelon Joints

    • Shihao Yuan
    • Qiang Sun
    • Lei Xue

    Technical Note 26 April 2024

    

12. Modal Analysis of a Lava Tube Roof Complex: Tabernacle Hill, Utah, USA

    • Guglielmo Grechi
    • Jeffrey R. Moore
    • Madeleine M. Festin

    Technical Note Open access 26 April 2024

    

13. Experimental and Numerical Research on the Tightness and Stability of Underground Anhydrite Rock Cavern Oil Storage

    • Xinxing Wei
    • Hongling Ma
    • Chunhe Yang

    Original Paper 26 April 2024

    

14. Exploring Heterogeneity Consideration in Bonded Block Analyses of Laboratory and In Situ Tests on Opalinus Clay

    • Leandro Lima Rasmussen
    • Ki-Bok Min

    Original Paper 26 April 2024

    

15. Impact of Carbonate Content, Rock Texture, and Roughness on Fracture Transmissivity and Acid-Etching Patterns in Carbonate Rocks

    • Ximena Rodríguez
    • Antonio Barbosa
    • Thomas Finkbeiner

    Original Paper 25 April 2024

    

16. Experimental Study on the Free-Face True-Triaxial Rockburst Test Considering the Influence of Joints

    • Mingliang Li
    • Kegang Li
    • Rui Yue

    Original Paper 25 April 2024

    

17. Investigation on the Dynamic Cracking Mechanism of Sandstone with an Ice-Saturated Flaw Based on Drop Weight Tests

    • Chun Zhu
    • Zhipeng Li
    • Shibin Tang

    Original Paper 25 April 2024

    

18. Water Content Evolution in the EDZ of Opalinus Clay: A Methodic Approach for a Comparative Interpretation of Measurements and Modelling

    • Gesa Ziefle
    • Tuanny Cajuhi
    • Jobst Maßmann

    Original Paper Open access 24 April 2024

    

19. Analytical Solution for the Stress Field in Surrounding Rock of a Near-Fault Tunnel Considering Tectonic Stress Boundary Conditions

    • Su Wu
    • Chong Shi
    • Wangyang Li

    Original Paper 24 April 2024

    

20. Compression-Hardening Memory of the Microstructure and Its Effect on the Cyclic Loading/Unloading Response of Crystalline Rock Using a Grain-Based Model

    • Xiaolin Huang
    • Ling Xu
    • Xin Wei

    Original Paper 23 April 2024

    

21. Nonlinear Mechanical and 3D Rupture Morphology of Saturated Porous Sandstone Under True Triaxial Stress

    • Minghui Li
    • Jun Lu
    • Changbao Jiang

    Original Paper 23 April 2024

    

22. Effective Elastic Properties and Micro-mechanical Damage Evolution of Composite Granular Rocks: Insights from Particulate Discrete Element Modelling

    • Prasad Pothana
    • Fernando E. Garcia
    • Kegang Ling

    Original Paper Open access 22 April 2024

    

23. The Sequence of Heating and Loading Affects Shear Properties of Granite Fractures Under High Temperature

    • Fanzhen Meng
    • Jianhua Han
    • Hui Zhou

    Original Paper 21 April 2024

    

24. A Preliminary Study on the Detections of Potential Support Degradation in Deep Hydraulic Tunnels

    • Jiangyong Sun
    • Wen Nie
    • Ruilang Cao

    Original Paper 21 April 2024

    

25. Observation via Particle Image Velocity (PIV) Technology of Seepage Features in Replicas of Rock Fractures

    • Dai Xu
    • He Lei
    • Cao Yimin

    Original Paper 20 April 2024

    

26. A New Simplified Discrete Fracture Model for Shearing of Intersecting Fractures and Faults

    • Mengsu Hu
    • Tsubasa Sasaki
    • Jens Birkholzer

    Original Paper Open access 20 April 2024

    

27. Roughness Characterization of Hydraulically Induced Fractures in Anisotropic Granite

    • Melvin B. Diaz
    • Sang Seob Kim
    • Kwang Yeom Kim

    Technical Note 18 April 2024

    

28. A Novel Oriented Perforation Approach for Fracturing Deep and Tight Reservoirs

    • Kaiming Xia
    • Yufeng Cui
    • Tariq Mahmood

    Original Paper 18 April 2024

    

29. Simple Equations for Estimating the Large Convergence and the Longitudinal Displacement Profile of a Tunnel

    • Kai Guan
    • Wancheng Zhu
    • Xige Liu

    Original Paper 17 April 2024

    

30. Parameters Affecting the Proppant Distribution in Multiple Growing Hydraulic Fractures

    • Shaoyi Cheng
    • Bisheng Wu
    • Tianshou Ma

    Original Paper 17 April 2024

    

31. Regional Characteristics of Seismicity Associated with Hydraulic Fracturing in the Southern Sichuan Basin of China

    • Jingjing Dai
    • Jianfeng Liu
    • Shigui Dai

    Original Paper 17 April 2024

    

32. The Cumulative Damage Evolution Law Of Multi-Anchor Circular Piles Reinforced Landslide Under Earthquake Action

    • Hong Wei
    • Zhigang Tao
    • Hanqian Weng

    Original Paper 15 April 2024

    

33. Combination of a Failure Index and a Dilatancy-Dependent Permeability Model in Hydro-Mechanically-Coupled Numerical Simulations of Argillaceous Rock Formations of the Callovo-Oxfordian (COx)

    • Eike Radeisen
    • Hua Shao
    • Wenqing Wang

    Original Paper Open access 15 April 2024

    

34. Numerical Simulation of Spatial Crack Growth and the Local Failure Process of Rock Using the SMDSM Empowered by Structured 3-D Hierarchical Meshes

    • Kai Wang
    • Chunan Tang
    • Huahua Zhang

    Original Paper 15 April 2024

    

35. Investigation on Rock Fracturing in Presplit Blasting Under Various Initial Stresses

    • Kewei Liu
    • Xudong Li
    • Zhixian Hong

    Original Paper 14 April 2024

    

36. Dynamic Responses of an Underground Opening Subject to Impact Loadings in Blocky Rock

    • Wen Nie
    • Zhaorui Yong
    • Jie Sun

    Original Paper 13 April 2024

    

37. On Multi-Component Gas Migration in Single-Phase Systems

    • Michael Pitz
    • Elke Jacops
    • Thomas Nagel

    Original Paper Open access 13 April 2024

    

38. Experimental Study of Debris Flows Impacting a Novel Barrier Based on Negative Poisson’s Ratio (NPR) Cables

    • Feifei Zhao
    • Manchao He
    • Xiaohui Zheng

    Original Paper 13 April 2024

    

39. A New Combined Mining Method: The Stope Limit Length Calculation of Considering Bulk Support Boundary

    • Qingfa Chen
    • Quan Gan
    • Chenyang Liu

    Original Paper 13 April 2024

    

40. Permeability Evolution in a Fracture in Granite During Isotropic Compression

    • Jian Huo
    • A. P. S. Selvadurai
    • Mohamed Meguid

    Original Paper 13 April 2024

    

41. Novel Sub-core Extraction Method Using CNC Milling for Water-Sensitive and Fragile Rock

    • Aly Abdelaziz
    • Johnson Ha
    • Giovanni Grasselli

    Technical Note 12 April 2024

    

42. Frictional Stability and Permeability Evolution of 3D Carved Longmaxi Shale Fractures and Its Implications for Shale Fault Stability in Sichuan Basin

    • Li Cui
    • Fengshou Zhang
    • Hengdong Wang

    Original Paper 12 April 2024

    

43. Comparison of Fatigue Hydraulic Fracturing of Granite Cores Subjected to Creep and Cyclic Injection

    • Li Zhuang
    • Changlun Sun
    • Andrew P. Bunger

    Original Paper 12 April 2024

    

44. Robust Machine Learning Predictive Models for Real-Time Determination of Confined Compressive Strength of Rock Using Mudlogging Data

    • Milad Zamanzadeh Talkhouncheh
    • Shadfar Davoodi
    • Reza Bakhshi

    Original Paper 11 April 2024

    

45. Experimental and Numerical Studies of Water–Sand Flow in Fractured Porous Media

    • Wei Li
    • Yu Liu
    • Jintao Wang

    Original Paper 11 April 2024

    

46. A Test System for Microwave-Assisted Dual-Mode Mechanical Cutting of Hard Rock Under True Triaxial Compression

    • Xia-Ting Feng
    • Xiang-xin Su
    • Tian-yang Tong

    Original Paper Open access 11 April 2024

    

47. Validation of Diametrical Core Deformation Technique for Mining-Induced Stress Estimation: A Case Study

    • Yizhuo Li
    • Tuo Chen
    • Hani S. Mitri

    Original Paper 10 April 2024

    

48. The Rock Fragmentation Mechanism in Rock Cutting with PDC Cutter Under Hydrostatic Pressures

    • Weiji Liu
    • Hongxing Deng
    • Xiaohua Zhu

    Original Paper 10 April 2024

    

49. Gravitational Failure Occurrence and Evolution of Rock Slopes Due to Dam Construction: A Case Study of Three Reservoirs in Southwest China

    • Ming-liang Chen
    • Jia-wen Zhou
    • Xing-guo Yang

    Technical Note 10 April 2024

    

50. Creep of Rock Salt Under a Large Range of Deviatoric Stresses

    • Laura Blanco-Martín
    • Ahmed Rouabhi
    • Paule Labaune

    Original Paper 09 April 2024