1. Experimental Study of the Influence of Drawbell Geometry on Hang-Ups in Cave Mine Applications

   • Raúl Castro
   • Sebastian López
   • Nicolas Carreño

   Original Paper 18 September 2020 Pages: 1 - 10

   

2. The Energy Principle of Coal and Gas Outbursts: Experimentally Evaluating the Role of Gas Desorption

   • Yang Lei
   • Yuanping Cheng
   • Yixuan Li

   Original Paper 23 September 2020 Pages: 11 - 30

   

3. Effect of Stress Anisotropy on the Efficiency of Large-Scale Destress Blasting

   • Isaac Vennes
   • Hani Mitri
   • Mike Yao

   Original Paper 27 September 2020 Pages: 31 - 46

   

4. Identification of Microseismic Events in Rock Engineering by a Convolutional Neural Network Combined with an Attention Mechanism

   • Shibin Tang
   • Jiaxu Wang
   • Chunan Tang

   Original Paper 01 October 2020 Pages: 47 - 69

   

5. A Limit Equilibrium Model of Tabular Mine Pillar Failure

   • J. A. L. Napier
   • D. F. Malan

   Original Paper 15 October 2020 Pages: 71 - 89

   

6. Physical Model Test on the Deformation Behavior of an Underground Tunnel Under Blasting Disturbance

   • Jiadong Qiu
   • Xibing Li
   • Lisha Liang

   Original Paper 27 September 2020 Pages: 91 - 108

   

7. Failure Performance of 3DP Physical Twin-Tunnel Model and Corresponding Safety Factor Evaluation

   • Quan Jiang
   • Xiaopei Liu
   • Guangliang Feng

   Original Paper 22 September 2020 Pages: 109 - 128

   

8. Experimental Investigation on Static and Dynamic Bulk Moduli of Dry and Fluid-Saturated Porous Sandstones

   • Lei Wang
   • Erik Rybacki
   • Georg Dresen

   Original Paper Open access 29 September 2020 Pages: 129 - 148

   

9. Experimental Study on Strain Burst Characteristics of Sandstone Under True Triaxial Loading and Double Faces Unloading in One Direction

   • Manchao He
   • Fuqiang Ren
   • Shudong Zhang

   Original Paper 27 October 2020 Pages: 149 - 171

   

10. Influence of Bedding Planes on Mode I and Mixed-Mode (I–II) Dynamic Fracture Toughness of Coal: Analysis of Experiments

    • Wei Wang
    • Yixin Zhao
    • Zhenhua Jiao

    Original Paper 26 September 2020 Pages: 173 - 189

    

11. Breakdown Pressure and Propagation Surface of a Hydraulically Pressurized Circular Notch Within a Rock Material

    • Adam K. Schwartzkopff
    • Nouné S. Melkoumian
    • Chaoshui Xu

    Original Paper 12 October 2020 Pages: 191 - 218

    

12. Temperature-Induced Explosive Behaviour and Thermo-Chemical Damage on Pyrite-Bearing Limestones: Causes and Mechanisms

    • V. Martínez-Ibáñez
    • D. Benavente
    • M. E. Garrido

    Original Paper 28 October 2020 Pages: 219 - 234

    

13. Damage Characteristics of Jalore Granitic Rocks After Thermal Cycling Effect for Nuclear Waste Repository

    • P. K. Gautam
    • R. Dwivedi
    • T. N. Singh

    Original Paper 06 October 2020 Pages: 235 - 254

    

14. Effect of Temperature on Stiffness of Sandstones from the Deep North Sea Basin

    • Tobias Orlander
    • Katrine Alling Andreassen
    • Ida Lykke Fabricius

    Original Paper Open access 10 October 2020 Pages: 255 - 288

    

15. Mechanical Properties of Acid-corroded Sandstone Under Uniaxial Compression

    • Shuguang Li
    • Yingming Wu
    • Yanjun Shen

    Original Paper 18 October 2020 Pages: 289 - 302

    

16. Geomechanical characterisation of organic-rich calcareous shale using AFM and nanoindentation

    • S. P. Graham
    • M. Rouainia
    • P. J. Armitage

    Original Paper Open access 19 October 2020 Pages: 303 - 320

    

17. Creep Behavior of Shale: Nanoindentation vs. Triaxial Creep Tests

    • Kouqi Liu
    • Fatemeh S. Rassouli
    • Mehdi Ostadhassan

    Original Paper 03 October 2020 Pages: 321 - 335

    

18. Response of Upper Jurassic (Malm) Limestone to Temperature Change: Experimental Results on Rock Deformation and Permeability

    • Liang Pei
    • Guido Blöcher
    • Ernst Huenges

    Original Paper 27 October 2020 Pages: 337 - 358

    

19. Thermo-Poro-Elastic Behaviour of a Transversely Isotropic Shale: Thermal Expansion and Pressurization

    • Philipp Braun
    • Siavash Ghabezloo
    • Nathalie Conil

    Original Paper 21 October 2020 Pages: 359 - 375

    

20. Transversely Isotropic Poroelastic Behaviour of the Callovo-Oxfordian Claystone: A Set of Stress-Dependent Parameters

    • Philipp Braun
    • Siavash Ghabezloo
    • Nathalie Conil

    Original Paper 21 October 2020 Pages: 377 - 396

    

21. Experimental Study of Electric Potential Response Characteristics of Different Lithological Samples Subject to Uniaxial Loading

    • Zhonghui Li
    • Xin Zhang
    • Muhammad Ali

    Original Paper 23 October 2020 Pages: 397 - 408

    

22. Permeability Evolution of Two-Dimensional Fracture Networks During Shear Under Constant Normal Stiffness Boundary Conditions

    • Bo Li
    • Ruyi Bao
    • Cheng Zhao

    Original Paper 20 October 2020 Pages: 409 - 428

    

23. Multi-scale Experimental Investigations on the Deterioration Mechanism of Sandstone Under Wetting–Drying Cycles

    • Chong Wang
    • Wansheng Pei
    • Jinpeng Dai

    Original Paper 10 October 2020 Pages: 429 - 441

    

24. Effects of Test Temperature and Low Temperature Thermal Cycling on the Dynamic Tensile Strength of Granitic Rocks

    • Ahmad Mardoukhi
    • Yousof Mardoukhi
    • Veli-Tapani Kuokkala

    Original Paper 20 October 2020 Pages: 443 - 454

    

25. Thermal Effect on Compressional Wave Propagation Across Fluid-Filled Rock Joints

    • H. Yang
    • H. F. Duan
    • J. B. Zhu

    Technical Note 30 September 2020 Pages: 455 - 462

    

26. Investigation on the Effect of Cyclic Moisture Change on Rock Swelling in Hydropower Water Tunnels

    • Lena Selen
    • Krishna Kanta Panthi
    • Mai Britt Mørk

    Technical Note Open access 10 October 2020 Pages: 463 - 476

    

27. Elliptical Hertz-Based General Closure Model for Rock Joints

    • Zhi Cheng Tang
    • Qing Zhao Zhang

    Technical Note 23 October 2020 Pages: 477 - 486