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 …

[PDF][PDF] Numerical Representation of the Spalling and Bulking Phenomena

E Rógenes, MM Farias, LL Rasmussen - 2022 - researchgate.net
Deep underground works commonly present a brittle failure process, known as spalling,
together with high convergence displacements, called bulking. In the present work, a …