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19 Citations
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15 July 2020

The estimation of rockburst potential has attracted great attention in the field of rock mechanics and engineering. In this study, an original energy preservation index is proposed to evaluate the rockburst potential in view of the energy evolution c...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,083 Views
16 Pages

20 October 2021

In order to study the energy evolution characteristics and damage constitutive relationship of siltstone, the conventional triaxial compression tests of siltstone under different confining pressures are performed, and the evolution laws of input ener...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,528 Views
11 Pages

Experimental Research on the Energy Evolution of Concrete under Impact Loading

  • Huan Wang,
  • Faning Dang,
  • Jie Ren,
  • Yanjun Li and
  • Lin Zhu

21 July 2023

This paper presents an experimental study on the dynamic strength of concrete by using a split Hopkinson pressure bar. The stress–strain relationship and fragmentation degree of concrete were analyzed. The change process of the incident energy,...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
912 Views
20 Pages

10 April 2025

The construction of an elastoplastic constitutive model for energy dissipation and crack evolution in rocks is crucial for accurately predicting their failure processes. This study first constructs a theoretical elastoplastic constitutive model by an...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,305 Views
17 Pages

Mechanical Properties and Energy Evolution of Fractured Sandstone under Cyclic Loading

  • Xinwei Li,
  • Zhishu Yao,
  • Xianwen Huang,
  • Xiaohu Liu,
  • Yu Fang and
  • Yongjie Xu

2 September 2022

Affected by fracture distribution, sandstone shows different deformation and energy evolution characteristics under cyclic loading and unloading conditions. Therefore, uniaxial cyclic loading tests were conducted on fractured sandstone with different...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,138 Views
15 Pages

19 September 2023

This paper presents two experimental schemes, graded cyclic loading and unloading, and variable lower limit cyclic loading and unloading, to investigate the energy evolution and acoustic emission characteristics of rocks under different cyclic loadin...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,996 Views
16 Pages

8 May 2023

The damage and fracture of coal is accompanied by a complex energy conversion process, and these different stages of energy evolution are closely related to coal failure. In this paper, an evolution model describing the behavior of coal failure was p...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,301 Views
16 Pages

18 February 2022

To explore the influence of crack angle on the mechanical properties, energy evolution, and damage evolution of sandstone, uniaxial loading tests were conducted on sandstones with different crack angles. Through the stress–strain curve, the inf...

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  • Open Access
69 Citations
5,607 Views
19 Pages

18 December 2018

Since different incident waves will cause the same array to perform differently with respect to the wave energy converter (WEC), the parameters of the incident wave, including the incident angle and the incident wave number, are taken into account fo...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,720 Views
20 Pages

The current constitutive model and damage evolution law of crumb rubber concrete (CRC) were obtained by fitting and changing parameters based on the normal concrete model. However, this model does not accurately reflect the characteristics of the mat...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
1,989 Views
17 Pages

Energy Evolution Law during Failure Process of Coal–Rock Combination and Roadway Surrounding Rock

  • Dongxiao Zhang,
  • Weiyao Guo,
  • Tongbin Zhao,
  • Yongqiang Zhao,
  • Yang Chen and
  • Xiufeng Zhang

29 November 2022

The deformation and failure of a coal–rock system in a deep environment is affected by its own mechanical properties, natural endowments, and geological structures; it is very important to study the energy evolution law of coal–rock syste...

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  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,401 Views
16 Pages

3 August 2020

To analyse the effect of loading rate on the energy evolution of rocks under cyclic loading and unloading, tests on saturated limestone were conducted at loading rates of 0.15, 0.2, and 0.3 mm/min, and the evolution characteristics of plastic, elasti...

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1,623 Views
18 Pages

6 December 2024

Finding ways to improve regional energy efficiency is important for the Chinese government to achieve its dual carbon target. This paper aims to explore ways to improve regional energy efficiency by studying the spatial–temporal dynamic evoluti...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,010 Views
16 Pages

24 February 2023

Based on the entire loading process of compound coal–rock, test pieces with three different coal/rock ratios (1:3, 1:1, and 3:1) have been constructed and the corresponding cyclic loading experiments have been carried out. Through the experimen...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,209 Views
20 Pages

Fractal Characteristics and Energy Evolution Analysis of Rocks under True Triaxial Unloading Conditions

  • Cheng Pan,
  • Chongyan Liu,
  • Guangming Zhao,
  • Wei Yuan,
  • Xiao Wang and
  • Xiangrui Meng

To investigate the mechanical properties and energy evolution laws of rocks under true triaxial unloading conditions, a study was conducted using a true triaxial rock testing system on three different types of rocks: coal, sandy mudstone, and siltsto...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,808 Views
15 Pages

Mechanical Properties and Energy Evolution Laws of Rocks Under Freeze–Thaw

  • Xiaopeng Yue,
  • Ting Liu,
  • Tao Wen,
  • Wenjun Jia and
  • Yajuan Wu

26 January 2025

In high-altitude mountainous areas, the phenomenon of rock frost damage under repeated freeze–thaw cycles are pronounced, with the deformation and failure processes of rock often accompanied by energy dissipation. To elucidate the energy evolut...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,303 Views
12 Pages

Applying Two-Stage Differential Evolution for Energy Saving in Optimal Chiller Loading

  • Chang-Ming Lin,
  • Chun-Yin Wu,
  • Ko-Ying Tseng,
  • Chih-Chiang Ku and
  • Sheng-Fuu Lin

15 February 2019

In Taiwan, over 45% of the energy in common buildings is used for the air-conditioning system. In particular, the chiller plant consumes about 70% of the energy in air-conditioning system. The electric energy consumption of air-condition system in a...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,022 Views
21 Pages

24 September 2024

Quantitative research on the evolution and transformation of topics in China’s energy policy can enhance the theoretical and methodological framework of policy document analysis. Utilizing dynamic topic modeling (DTM) and social network analysi...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,321 Views
26 Pages

27 November 2024

A reasonable support parameter design scheme is the key to ensuring the stability of the roadway. This study established 217 models using FLAC3D to analyze the evolution characteristics of elastic strain energy and plastic dissipation energy of surro...

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  • Open Access
534 Views
15 Pages

Energy Dissipation and Damage Evolution of Water-Saturated Skarn Under Impact Loading

  • Ximing Jian,
  • Pinzhe Zhao,
  • Xianglong Li,
  • Jianguo Wang,
  • Yaohong Li and
  • Yang Yang

15 October 2025

Understanding the combined effects of water and dynamic disturbance on rock behavior is essential for deep underground engineering, where groundwater and blasting often coexist. Existing studies have mainly emphasized static weakening by water or the...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,788 Views
11 Pages

20 June 2023

In many underground engineering projects, rocks are often subjected to cyclic loading and unloading, such as repeated excavation of roadway surrounding rock, which will lead to damage to underground rocks, and the energy of rocks also changes. Theref...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,472 Views
29 Pages

Understanding the regional disparities, dynamic evolution, and convergence–divergence characteristics of global agricultural energy efficiency is crucial for enhancing agricultural energy efficiency, ensuring food security, and responding to gl...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
1,740 Views
28 Pages

To study the fractal characteristics and energy evolution of sandstones under true three-dimensional stress states, a true triaxial compression test and a cyclic loading and unloading test of sandstone specimens under different loads were carried out...

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  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,389 Views
25 Pages

Under the influence of economic globalization, the internationalization trend of energy security issues has become increasingly prominent. This paper adopts the natural discontinuity grading method to classify the energy security status of 102 countr...

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  • Open Access
841 Views
20 Pages

14 August 2025

Accurately characterizing the energy evolution during rock failure is crucial in understanding instability mechanisms and enabling the real-time monitoring and early warning of geological hazards in mining and geotechnical engineering. However, the e...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,677 Views
25 Pages

Study on the Energy Evolution and Damage Mechanism of Fractured Rock Mass Under Stress–Seepage Coupling

  • Haiqing Shuang,
  • Xiangxiang Liu,
  • Bin Zhou,
  • Liang Cheng,
  • Haifei Lin,
  • Biao Hu and
  • Zijia Liu

18 January 2025

In the process of deep mining, the dynamic disasters of coal and rock occur frequently under the action of high stress and high seepage pressure, the essence of which is energy-driven coal rock failure. In order to explore the energy evolution law an...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,681 Views
24 Pages

Investigation of Microcrack Propagation and Energy Evolution in Brittle Rocks Based on the Voronoi Model

  • Guanlin Liu,
  • Youliang Chen,
  • Xi Du,
  • Peng Xiao,
  • Shaoming Liao and
  • Rafig Azzam

21 April 2021

The cracking of rock mass under compression is the main factor causing structural failure. Therefore, it is very crucial to establish a rock damage evolution model to investigate the crack development process and reveal the failure and instability me...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,871 Views
17 Pages

14 January 2023

In order to study the deformation and failure characteristics of rocks under different cyclic loading and unloading paths, three stress path tests were conducted, and acoustic emission (AE) monitoring was conducted simultaneously. The mechanical char...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,372 Views
15 Pages

22 August 2022

Energy is often dissipated and released in the process of rock deformation and failure. To study the energy evolution of rock discontinuities under cyclic loading and unloading, cement mortar was used as rock material and a CSS-1950 rock biaxial rheo...

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5 Citations
1,643 Views
12 Pages

30 May 2024

In order to investigate the impact of moisture content on energy evolution, three types of rock samples with varying moisture contents were subjected to uniaxial compression tests. The study aimed to analyze the reasons behind the differences in ener...

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  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,207 Views
28 Pages

Brittleness Evaluation of Glutenite Based On Energy Balance and Damage Evolution

  • Lianchong Li,
  • Mingyang Zhai,
  • Liaoyuan Zhang,
  • Zilin Zhang,
  • Bo Huang,
  • Aishan Li,
  • Jiaqiang Zuo and
  • Quansheng Zhang

5 September 2019

Tight glutenite reservoirs are typically characterized by highly variable lithology and permeability, low and complex porosity, and strong heterogeneity. Glutenite brittleness is an essential indicator for screening fracture targets, selecting techno...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,414 Views
16 Pages

11 January 2023

During deep underground coal mining, water-injection-related engineering methods are generally carried out to reduce the hazards of coal dynamic disasters. The energy evolution characteristics of coal can better describe the deformation and failure p...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,238 Views
15 Pages

5 December 2022

To study the mechanical properties and energy evolution characteristics of the shallow fractured coal in the Western China mining area, a series of triaxial compression tests was carried out on fractured coal specimens. The stress–strain curve,...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,506 Views
14 Pages

18 March 2019

With the consumption of energy, blackouts, and a series of social development problems, the discussion of energy security has become the focus of international attention. This paper aims to construct a universal multidimensional index system from fou...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,569 Views
13 Pages

12 October 2023

The underground coal mining process is closely associated with frequent energy storage and consumption of coal mass with natural and induced fractures. Exploring the energy evolution characteristics of intact and fractured coal samples could be helpf...

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  • Open Access
34 Citations
14,191 Views
17 Pages

China has formulated a series of industrial policies dedicated to the sustainable development of new energy vehicles (NEVs). Researching China’s NEVs industry policy system, particularly its staged evolution characteristics and internal logic,...

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810 Views
20 Pages

18 February 2025

This study proposes a novel cyclic stress path with simultaneous axial and confining stress and conducts triaxial testing on raw coal over various cycle periods. The analysis of bias stress–strain curves, deformation parameters, and energy inde...

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  • Open Access
1,866 Views
13 Pages

10 January 2023

The energy supply effect caused by the stiffness difference between roofs and sidewalls is an important factor that induces strain coal bursts. In order to quantitatively reveal the energy supply mechanism of strain coal bursts, this paper first esta...

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874 Views
20 Pages

Failure and Energy Evolution Characteristics of Saturated Natural Defective Material Under Different Confining Pressures

  • Zhihao Gao,
  • Shihao Guo,
  • Xiaoyong Yang,
  • Shanchao Hu,
  • Junhong Huang,
  • Yafei Cheng,
  • Dawang Yin and
  • Jinhao Dou

29 April 2025

In nature, many brittle materials contain natural defects such as microcracks or joints, for example, rocks. Under water-saturated conditions, the strength of defective materials undergoes varying degrees of attenuation, leading to material failure a...

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768 Views
23 Pages

15 August 2025

The destabilizing damage of rock structures in coal beds engineering is greatly influenced by the bearing rupture features and energy evolution laws of rock–coal assemblages with varying height ratios. In this study, we used PFC3D to create roc...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,287 Views
18 Pages

22 November 2020

The exploitation of deep resources is necessary for human development. At the same time, high-stress environments that are deep underground bring about great challenges vis-à-vis resource exploitation. A large deep opening is sensitive to high...

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  • Open Access
226 Views
20 Pages

Mechanical Behavior and Energy Evolution of Coal–Rock Composites Under Mining-Induced Stress

  • Hongqiang Song,
  • Hong Li,
  • Liang Du,
  • Xiaoqing Zhao,
  • Bingwei Gu,
  • Jianping Zuo,
  • Fuming Jia and
  • Jinhao Wen

23 January 2026

To investigate the mechanical properties, energy evolution, and failure behavior of coal–rock composite structures under mining disturbances, a mining-induced stress path was designed based on the actual stress evolution ahead of a mining face....

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,189 Views
25 Pages

11 November 2019

This paper provides a detailed description of venture capital (VC) investments in clean energy industries in China over the period 2006–2017 and explores the evolution of clean energy industry VC networks through network formation and network d...

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  • Open Access
416 Views
19 Pages

Energy Evolution and Fine Structure Effects in Typical Rocks Subjected to Impact Loading

  • Ding Deng,
  • Gaofeng Liu,
  • Lianjun Guo,
  • Yuling Li and
  • Jiawei Hua

19 December 2025

To investigate the mechanical behavior and energy evolution characteristics of various rock materials under impact loading, dynamic impact tests were conducted on five representative rock types using a split Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB) apparatus, c...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,698 Views
16 Pages

29 January 2024

Joints are the weak plane structures in coal. The existence of joints leads to coal failure, with different fracture modes and energy evolution laws. In this paper, the energy evolution and bursting liability index of coal failure with different join...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,563 Views
20 Pages

19 December 2023

The sustainability of rock engineering is an emerging trend in future development, as society increasingly recognizes the importance of environmental conservation and responsible resource utilization. In this context, the field of rock engineering is...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,872 Views
17 Pages

18 January 2023

To study the mechanical behavior and energy evolution law of gas-filled deep coal, conventional triaxial compression experiments under different confining pressure and gas pressure conditions and cyclic loading and unloading experiments under differe...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,877 Views
13 Pages

12 April 2024

During the coal mining process in soft rock mines with abundant water, the rock mass undergoes cyclic loading and unloading at low frequencies due to factors such as excavation. To investigate the mechanical characteristics and energy evolution laws...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,829 Views
19 Pages

Feature Selection by Binary Differential Evolution for Predicting the Energy Production of a Wind Plant

  • Sameer Al-Dahidi,
  • Piero Baraldi,
  • Miriam Fresc,
  • Enrico Zio and
  • Lorenzo Montelatici

18 May 2024

We propose a method for selecting the optimal set of weather features for wind energy prediction. This problem is tackled by developing a wrapper approach that employs binary differential evolution to search for the best feature subset, and an ensemb...

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14 Citations
2,814 Views
20 Pages

14 April 2022

The backfill in the stope usually forms a composite structure with the surrounding rock in order to bear pressure together to support the goaf and ensure the safe mining of subsequent ores. Based on laboratory tests and theoretical analysis, the ener...

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