Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering

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• Editorial

Chemical Dissolution Drilling of Barre Granite Using a Sodium Hydroxide Enhanced Supercritical Water Jet

• Original Paper

Ivan Beentjes, Jay T. Bender, Adam J. Hawkins, Jefferson W. Tester

Ground Response of a Gob-side Entry in a Longwall Panel Extracting 17 m-Thick Coal Seam: A Case Study

• Original Paper

G. C. Zhang, Z. J. Wen, S. J. Liang, Y. L. Tan, L. Tian, Y. Q. Zhao, D. S. Zhao

True Three-Dimensional Geomechanical Model Tests for Stability Analysis of Surrounding Rock During the Excavation of a Deep Underground Laboratory

• Original Paper

Qiangyong Zhang, Chuancheng Liu, Kang Duan, Zhenjie Zhang, Wen Xiang

The Role of Load Control Modes in Determination of Mechanical Properties of Granite

• Original Paper

Louis Ngai Yuen Wong, Fanzhen Meng, Tianyang Guo, Xiangchao Shi

Influence of Intermittent Artificial Crack Density on Shear Fracturing and Fractal Behavior of Rock Bridges: Experimental and Numerical Studies

• Original Paper

Ke Zhang, Yulong Chen, Wencheng Fan, Xianghua Liu, Hebing Luan, Jianbin Xie

Dynamic Mode II Fracture Toughness of Rocks Subjected to Confining Pressure

• Original Paper

Wei Yao, Ying Xu, Kaiwen Xia, Shuai Wang

A Model for Pore Pressure Response of a Claystone due to Liberated Residual Stress Dilation

• Original Paper

A. G. Corkum

Tunneling in Squeezing Ground: Effect of the Excavation Method

• Original Paper

Manuel de la Fuente, Jean Sulem, Reza Taherzadeh, Didier Subrin

Investigation of Anisotropic Deformation and Stress-Dependent Directional Permeability of Coalbed Methane Reservoirs

• Original Paper

Ruimin Feng, Shengnan Chen, Steven Bryant

Direct and Distributed Strain Measurements Inside a Shotcrete Lining: Concept and Realisation

• Open Access
• Original Paper

Lukas Wagner, Alexander Kluckner, Christoph Martin Monsberger, Petra Wolf, Karoline Prall, Wulf Schubert, Werner Lienhart

Influence of Super-Critical CO2 on the Strength and Fracture Behavior of Brine-Saturated Sandstone Specimens

• Original Paper

Yan-Hua Huang, Sheng-Qi Yang, Wen-Ping Li, Matthew R. Hall

Reconstruction of Surficial Rock Blocks by Means of Rock Structure Modelling of 3D TLS Point Clouds: The 2013 Long-Chang Rockfall

• Open Access
• Original Paper

Xiujun Dong, Qiang Xu, Runqiu Huang, Qian Liu, D. Scott Kieffer

Self-Potential Response in Laboratory Scale EGS Stimulation

• Original Paper

Lianbo Hu, Ahmad Ghassemi, John Pritchett, Sabodh Garg, Tsuneo Ishido

Impact of Steel Properties on the Corrosion of Expandable Rock Bolts

• Original Paper

J. Hadjigeorgiou, Y. Savguira, S. J. Thorpe

Crack Front Geometry and Stress Intensity Factor of Semi-circular Bend Specimens with Straight Through and Chevron Notches

• Original Paper

Yuzo Obara, Kimiharu Nakamura, Singo Yoshioka, Atsushi Sainoki, Akira Kasai

Brittleness Index: From Conventional to Hydraulic Fracturing Energy Model

• Original Paper

Runhua Feng, Yihuai Zhang, Ali Rezagholilou, Hamid Roshan, Mohammad Sarmadivaleh

Deformation Experiments on Bowland and Posidonia Shale—Part II: Creep Behavior at In Situ pc–T Conditions

• Open Access
• Original Paper

J. Herrmann, E. Rybacki, H. Sone, G. Dresen

Experimental and Analytical Investigations of the Effect of Hole Size on Borehole Breakout Geometries for Estimation of In Situ Stresses

• Original Paper

H. Lin, J. Oh, I. Canbulat, T. R. Stacey

Effect of Water Content on Argillization of Mudstone During the Tunnelling process

• Original Paper

Bolong Liu, Haiqing Yang, Shivakumar Karekal

Dynamic Compressive Test of Gas-Containing Coal Using a Modified Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar System

• Original Paper

Zhiqiang Yin, Wensu Chen, Hong Hao, Jucai Chang, Guangming Zhao, Zhiyu Chen, Kang Peng

Investigation of the Long-Term Strength Properties of a Discontinuity by Shear Relaxation Tests

• Original Paper

Ang Liu, Wenli Lin, Jingcai Jiang

Prediction of Mechanical Properties of Igneous Rocks Under Combined Compression and Shear Loading Through Statistical Analysis

• Original Paper

Qingyuan He, Yingchun Li, Jinhai Xu, Chengguo Zhang

Semi-analytical Modelling of Water Injector Test with Fractured Channel in Tight Oil Reservoir

• Original Paper

Yang Wang, Shiqing Cheng, Kaidi Zhang, Jianchun Xu, Xiaoping An, Youwei He, Haiyang Yu

Experimental Study on the Shear Behavior of the Bonding Interface Between Sandstone and Cement Mortar Under Freeze–Thaw

• Original Paper

Wenjie Wang, Xiaoliang Yang, Shibing Huang, Dong Yin, Guofeng Liu

Physical Model Experimental Study on Spalling Failure Around a Tunnel in Synthetic Marble

• Original Paper

Guo-Qiang Zhu, Xia-Ting Feng, Yang-Yi Zhou, Zheng-Wei Li, Lian-Jie Fu, Yong-Run Xiong

Cavity Expansion in Rock Masses Obeying the “Hoek–Brown” Failure Criterion

• Original Paper

Haythem Gharsallaoui, Mustafa Jafari, Alain Holeyman

Identifying Crack Compaction and Crack Damage Stress Thresholds of Rock Using Load–Unload Response Ratio (LURR)Theory

• Technical Note

Fengqiang Gong, Chen Wu

Effects of a High Temperature (500 °C) on the Fracture Processes in Calcite-Cemented Sandstone Along Bedding-Plane Orientations

• Technical Note

Varun Maruvanchery, Eunhye Kim

Influence of Pore Water (Ice) Content on the Strength and Deformability of Frozen Argillaceous Siltstone

• Technical Note

Hailiang Jia, Fan Zi, Gengshe Yang, Guoyu Li, Yanjun Shen, Qiang Sun, Pengyu Yang

Characterization of Fracture Process in Sandstone: A Linear Correspondence Between Acoustic Emission Energy Density and Opening Displacement Gradient

• Technical Note

Qing Lin, Siqi Wang, Bin Wan, Yunhu Lu, Yan Wang