The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive state of the art of fatigue and cyclic
loading of natural rock materials. Papers published in the literature are classified and listed …

A semi-analytical constitutive model of a porous cracked rock is proposed based on the
micro–macro approach within a thermodynamic framework. The representative volume …

Starting from the concept of Representative Volume Element (RVE) at the mesoscopic scale,
a statistical meso-damage mechanical method (SMDMM) is developed to model the trans …

In this paper, we shall present a new micromechanical damage model for capturing the
mechanical behaviors of quasi-brittle geomaterials under a wide range of compressive …

Frictional sliding and crack growth are two main dissipation processes in quasi brittle
materials. The frictional sliding along closed cracks is the origin of macroscopic plastic …

In this paper, a new micro-mechanics based plastic damage model is proposed for quasi-
brittle materials under a large range of compressive stress. The damage is due to initiation …

Inelastic deformation and damage evolution at microdefects are two essential nonlinear
mechanisms that govern macroscopic mechanical behaviors of quasi-brittle solids. The …

Triaxial compression test results of sandstone indicate that the peak point strain, elastic
modulus, peak deviatoric stress and residual deviatoric stress of the tested sandstone …

In this paper, a micromorphic, non-linear 3D model aiming to describe internal friction
phenomena in concrete is considered. A reduced two-degrees-of-freedom model is …

The failure mode in rock engineering structures is closely related to the loading mode and
loading rate, because of the inertial effects under a wide range of geological conditions. In …