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Thermal Effects on Tension Softening Response and Fracture Characteristics of Quartz-Diorite
Identifying the thermal effects on the tension softening curve is of great significance for understanding the fracture characteristics of rock...
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Effect of Water-Induced Rock Softening on Rock Anisotropy During Drilling Process
Rocks have a softening effect under the long-term physical and chemical action of water, resulting in a reduction in the strength of rock and a...
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Strain softening characteristics and stress–strain relationship of Guiyang carbonate laterite
The strain softening characteristics of carbonate red clay materials will have a significant impact on the safety and economy of engineering...
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Thawing and Softening of Frozen Sandstone by Microwave Irradiation
The strength and hardness of rock are much higher at freezing temperatures than at room temperature. This results in high excavation costs and low...
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Nonlocal finite element modeling of progressive failure in rock within softening plasticity
Strain softening often leads to ill-posed boundary value problems in geotechnical materials, and solving finite element equations with over-nonlocal...
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A Modified Strain Softening–Hardening Constitutive Model for Plastic Concrete Cut-off Wall
A modified constitutive model is proposed in the current study for analyzing plastic concrete in cut-off walls using a Finite Difference Modeling...
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Response of the mechanical properties of impurity-bearing gypsum rocks with a porphyritic structure to long-term water immersion and softening mechanisms
The effect of long-term water immersion on the mechanical properties of porphyritic gypsum rock containing coarse-grained gypsum minerals and a...
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Constitutive Model and Microscopic Mechanism for Sandstone Strength Softening Damage
It is of great practical significance to study the microscopic mechanisms and strength damage laws of deep rock masses under the coupling action of...
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Study on the microscopic mechanism of strength softening and multiple fractal characteristics of coal specimens under different water saturation
Coal resources are often subjected to the combined effects of stress fields and seepage fields during the mining process. Therefore, studying the...
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A practical method for considering soil strain softening effect in the tunnel face stability analysis by numerical modeling
Face stability is one of the major concerns during shield tunneling. Many researchers have performed numerical analysis for tunnel face stability of...
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Effects of displacement-softening behavior of concrete-mudstone interface on load transfer of belled bored pile
Mudstone is a typical weak rock that fails to provide sufficient base resistance in the bored pile. The belled bored pile can replace the super-long...
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Effect of Variabilities in Motion Characteristics and Bedrock Depth on Seismic Ground Response Assessment
The half-space depth significantly affects the seismic ground response by influencing a particular site's amplification and attenuation...
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A Case Study of Seismic Design of Pile Foundation Subject to Liquefaction, Cyclic Softening, and Lateral Spreading
Pile foundations are frequently subjected to the lateral load imposed by soil movement during and after an earthquake event. This lateral load...
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Study on Shear–Softening Constitutive Law of Rock–Concrete Interface
To study fracture properties and establish a shear–softening constitutive law for rock–concrete interfaces, direct tension, three-point bending, and...
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Seismic Performance Assessment of Port Reclaimed Land Incorporating Liquefaction and Cyclic Softening
The seismic performance of a reclaimed land part of a New Zealand Port facility was examined through Nonlinear Dynamic Analyses (NDA), under the...
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Elasto-plastic analysis of circular tunnel in rock mass with confining stress-dependent strain-softening behavior considering intermediate principal stress
The conventional generalized Hoek–Brown failure criterion neglects the influence of intermediate principal stress, which should be considered for...
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Depth integrated modelling of submarine landslide evolution
Submarine landslides are a major geohazard among worldwide continental slopes, posing significant threats to offshore infrastructure, marine animal...
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Numerical Modeling of Impact Crater Shape with Mechanical Dynamic Softening
Abstract —Modeling the relative motion of large crustal blocks vitally depends on an adequate description of the forces acting between the blocks. To...
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An improved analytical approach for analyzing a circular opening excavated in a strain-softening rock mass
A broken zone usually exists in the deeply buried tunnels after excavation, and the rock mass in the broken zone is in the state of unloading failure...
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Shear response of reinforced concrete deep beams with and without web opening
Reinforced concrete deep beam (RCDB) analysis is frequently complex, and the presence of openings alters the behavior and may result in early...
