Research Article

A Creep Damage Constitutive Model for a Rock Mass with Nonpersistent Joints under Uniaxial Compression

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Effect of the joint normal and shear stiffness on the creep strain-time curves of the rock mass with one nonpersistent joint at axial stress σ0 = 12 MPa. (a) The joint normal stiffness is different; (b) the joint shear stiffness is different; (c) the joint normal and shear stiffness varies at the same Kn/Ks ratio.
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