Creep Behavior of Intact and Cracked Limestone Under Multi-Level Loading and Unloading Cycles

A series of triaxial creep tests were carried out on intact and cracked Maokou limestone specimens under multi-level loading and unloading cycles. A new data processing algorithm is proposed to analyze the experimental data and divide the total strain into instantaneous and creep strains, with the instantaneous strain consisting of instantaneous elastic and plastic strains and the creep strain consisting of viscoelastic and visco-plastic...