The impact of discontinuities on spalling failure in excavations under high-stress conditions

E Rógenes, A dos Santos Gomes, MM de Farias… - Computers and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Continuum Voronoi Block Model (CVBM), a pseudo-discontinuum modeling
technique based on the Finite Element Method, was employed to investigate the impact of …

Novel numerical approach to modeling excavation in hard rocks

E Rógenes, L Rasmussen, M de Farias, A Gomes - ISRM Congress, 2023 - onepetro.org
In this work, a new numerical approach based on the Finite Element Method and an implicit
continuum formulation, called Continuum Voronoi Block Model-CVBM, is proposed to …