Discrete Element Modeling on Mechanical Behavior of Heterogeneous Rock Containing X-Shaped Fissure under Uniaxial Compression

Figure 14

Failure modes of numerical models with different values of (). (Red represents tensile microcracks. Black represents shear microcracks. Numbers indicate the order of macrocrack generation. The angle values indicate the crack initiation angle).

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