Geological materials are inherently discontinuous because of joints, faults, shears, bedding, and foliation planes which typically transect the rock mass. Over the past two decades enormous effort has been made by the rock mechanics community to quantify the characterization of …
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Analysis of discontinuous deformation: new developments and applications: technical papers presented at the 9th Internation…
by Zhou, Yingxin, Ma, Guowei, Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering Geology, ICADD, Singapore), International Conference on Analysis of Discontinuous Deformation, Singapore)
In a significantly revised English edition the text provides a solid course on mechanics of porous & fractured media (mainly of geomaterials). Part I focuses on the continuum theory of the dynamic fracture and deformation of bodies with complex rheology, including the dilatancy …