Mesoscopic Numerical Simulation of Stratified Rock Failure Using Digital Image Processing

This paper presents a digital image processing (DIP) based finite difference method (FDM) and makes the first attempt to apply the new method to the failure process of stratified rocks from Chinese Jinping underground carves. In the method, the two-dimensional (2D) inhomogeneity and mesostructures of rock materials are first identified with the DIP technique. And then the binarization image information is used to generate the finite difference...