Since underground structures such as tunnels are inevitably surrounded by rocks, their long-
term safety and stability are primarily governed by the comportment of these materials. Being …

In many major rock projects, services have spanned decades or even hundreds of years. For
engineering design, it is necessary not only to ensure the safety of personnel during …

Different sedimentary zones in coral reefs lead to significant anisotropy in the pore structure
of coral reef limestone (CRL), making it difficult to study mechanical behaviors. With X-ray …

Understanding the micro-mechanism of brittle creep in saturated rocks and studying their
mechanical behaviors after creep damage are of great significance to the design of rock …

The presence of water greatly influences time-dependent rock deformation. An
understanding of how water can affect the time-dependent mechanical behavior of rock is …

Time-dependent cracking and brittle creep of rock is fundamental to understanding the long-
term evolution and dynamic failure in underground rock engineering. In the present paper …

In geothermal reservoir systems, changes in pore pressure due to production (depletion),
injection or temperature changes result in a displacement of the effective stresses acting on …

A numerical hydro-mechanical model for brittle creep is proposed to describe the time-
dependent deformation of heterogeneous brittle rock under constant confining and pore …

Pyrite is the most common authigenic mineral preserved in many ancient sedimentary rocks.
Pyrite also widely exists in the Longmaxi and Wufeng marine shales in the middle Yangtze …

An understanding of progressive time-dependent deformation is essential for determining
appropriate measures to ensure the long-term integrity of rock-masses surrounding …