A modeling study of the micro-cracking behavior of brittle crystalline rocks under uniaxial loading considering different scenarios of grain-based models

The grain-based model (GBM) in two-dimensional Particle Flow Code (PFC2D) is widely used to simulate the deformation and brittle failure of crystalline rocks. However, the original GBM consisting of the parallel-bond (PB) and the smooth-joint (SJ) produces unrealistic micro-cracking processes in which excessive microcracks are distributed along the interfaces of mineral grains under uniaxial loading. To solve the problem, this research presents...