In this paper,an elasto-plastic constitutive model is employed to capture the shear failure that may occur in a rock mass presenting mechanical discontinuities,
Crack closure is one of the reasons inducing changes of P-wave velocity of rocks under compression.In this context,a method is proposed to investigate the relat
In this study,we numerically investigate the influence of hysteretic stress path behavior on the seal integrity during underground gas storage operations in a d