Numerical Analysis of the Anisotropy and Scale Effects on the Strength Characteristics of Defected Rockmass

Figure 11

Effect of the model size on the UCS values of specimens (a) DFN150 and (b) DFN120. (c) Influence of the model size on the failure mode. Note that the specimens are generated based on the centre of the DFN model and the scale for each model is not the same for convenience.

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