Macro and meso research on the zonal disintegration phenomenon and the mechanism of deep brittle rock mass

Elastic crack growth in finite elements with minimal remeshing

Ted Belytschko, T. Howard Black · International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering · 1999 · 4.7K citations

Engineering, Computational Engineering, Mechanical Engineering +17

Numerical simulation of propagation and coalescence of flaws in rock materials under compressive loads using the extended non-ordinary state-based peridynamics

Yunteng Wang, Xiaoping Zhou, Xiao Xu · Engineering Fracture Mechanics · 2016 · 351 citations

Engineering, Civil Engineering, Materials Engineering +16

Numerical Simulation of Crack Growth and Coalescence in Rock-Like Materials Containing Multiple Pre-existing Flaws

Xiaoping Zhou, Jing Bi, Quan Qian · Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering · 2014 · 338 citations

Engineering, Materials Engineering, Materials Science +14

A Study of Three Intrinsic Problems of the Classic Discrete Element Method Using Flat-Joint Model

Shunchuan Wu, Xueliang Xu · Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering · 2015 · 267 citations

Engineering, Computational Engineering, Mechanical Engineering +10

Crack coalescence between two non-parallel flaws in rock-like material under uniaxial compression

Xiao-Ping Zhang, Quansheng Liu, Shunchuan Wu et al. · Engineering Geology · 2015 · 177 citations

Engineering, Materials Engineering, Materials Science +17