Rock masses with relatively high concentration of discontinuities or joints are considered. Being aware of limitations of various averaging techniques such as the self consistent or Mori-Tanaka methods in providing reliable estimates of generally nonlinear macroscopic response of jointed rock masses, the paper introduces a notion of statistically equivalent periodic unit cell (SEPUC). Such a unit cell contains, in order to reduce the problem complexity, of the orders of magnitude less number of joints in comparison with the actual material system. In analogy with two-phase composites, the SEPUC is expected to be found in a statistical sense by matching suitable microstructure descriptors of both the actual microstructure and periodic one. A possibility of using the second order intensity function as a informative descriptor of the cracks distribution is investigated and possible improvements, although without computational support, are proposed. These will be described in the following paper.
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Gajdošík, J., Šejnoha, M., Zeman, J. (2007). Homogenized response of jointed rock masses with periodic fields. The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, 4(2), 129-136. https://doi.org/10.3970/icces.2007.004.129
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Gajdošík J, Šejnoha M, Zeman J. Homogenized response of jointed rock masses with periodic fields. Int Conf Comput Exp Eng Sciences . 2007;4(2):129-136 https://doi.org/10.3970/icces.2007.004.129
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J. Gajdošík, M. Šejnoha, and J. Zeman "Homogenized response of jointed rock masses with periodic fields," Int. Conf. Comput. Exp. Eng. Sciences , vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 129-136. 2007. https://doi.org/10.3970/icces.2007.004.129
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