A constitutive model for modified cable bolts exhibiting cone shaped failure mode

This study presents a novel constitutive model to characterise the mechanical behaviour of cable bolts under axial loading and subjected to different boundary conditions including constant confining pressure and constant normal stiffness. Such a model is developed based on the modified Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion as well as a newly proposed non-linear dilation formulae for the development of governing equations. The cone shaped failure mode...