Review of unloading tests of dynamic rock failure in compression

Dynamic rock failure at the walls of an opening, so-called rock burst or strain burst is one of the major types of rock failure capable of causing human and financial loss. Initially the rock at the place of the future excavation is in a polyaxial stress state. When excavating an opening, the rock elements at the excavation boundary are overloaded in the tangential (with respect to excavation wall) direction and unloaded in the radial direction....