Failure Behavior and Constitutive Model of Weakly Consolidated Soft Rock

<table class="table-group" width="800px"><tr class="fig-image" id="a"><td><img alt="758750.fig.002a" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/tswj/volume-2013/758750/figures/758750.fig.002a.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(a) </b>Global disintegration of mudstone with high water content</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><img alt="758750.fig.002b" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/tswj/volume-2013/758750/figures/758750.fig.002b.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(b) </b>Columnar splitting of mudstone with low water content</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<table>Failure modes of mudstone samples under uniaxial compression with different moisture contents.</table>

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Figure 2: Failure Behavior and Constitutive Model of Weakly Consolidated Soft Rock 