2007 年 10 巻 p. 343-350
Failure processes of quasi-brittle solids like a rock mass generally involve not only cracking within constituents but also slippage between crack interfaces, especially when they are subjected to compressive loading. In this paper, these processes under uni-axial compressive loading are simulated in terms of the numerical analysis method based on the finite cover method (FCM). The results of several numerical tests demonstrate the effects of slippage between the crack interfaces to crack propagation.