Research Article

An Experimental and Numerical Investigation on the Initiation and Interaction of Double Cracks in Rocks under Hydromechanical Coupling

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Stress distribution around nonparallel cracks with different dip angles: (a) β1 = 30°; (b) β1 = 45°; (c) β1 = 60°; (d) β1 = 75°.
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