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 …

The purpose of this review is to discuss the development and the state of the art in dynamic
testing techniques and dynamic mechanical behaviour of rock materials. The review begins …

This monograph deals with the part of the field of experimental rock deformation that is
dominated by the phenomena of brittle fracture on one scale or another. Thus a distinction …

This study aims to explore dynamic behaviours of fracturing and damage evolution of rock
materials at the grain scale. A grain-based discrete element method (GB-DEM) is proposed …

Many large engineering projects, eg, the Sichuan–Tibet Railway, inevitably cross the
earthquake active areas and the geology complicated zones, facing the challenges of …

A large diameter split Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB) has been developed. This equipment
is briefly described, together with a shaped striker that initiates a half-sine incident waveform …

The analysis of crack problems through fracture mechanics has been applied to the study of
materials such as glass, metals and ceramics because relatively simple fracture criteria …

A new testing technique, which relates the physical stress state of rock subjected to
simultaneous coupled static and dynamic stresses, is presented. The method involves …

Full-field strain and strain-rate fields of rock materials under dynamic compression were
studied by the high-speed three-dimensional digital image correlation (3D-DIC) method. A …

The crack closure stress σ cc, crack initiation stress σ ci and crack damage stress σ cd are
important mechanical parameters to describe the brittle failure mechanism of hard rock. To …