Study on the Effect of Amygdales on Mechanical Characteristics of Basalt Using the Combined Finite-Discrete Element Method

<div>(a) Failure phenomenon under different elliptic coefficients of amygdale conditions (green = tensile crack and red = shear crack, respectively); (b) the AE evolution; (c) the AE events’ energy, <i>M</i><sub>e</sub>, measured based on the kinetic energy of the AE sources.</div>

Advances in Materials Science and Engineering

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Figure 9: Study on the Effect of Amygdales on Mechanical Characteristics of Basalt Using the Combined Finite-Discrete Element Method 