- CASRock Fundamentals
CASRock is an integration of elasto-brittle plastic mechanics, rock mechanics, engineering geology, fracture mechanics, and cellular automata. It uses a local updating rule to solve engineering rockmass fracturing problem. The basic content includes: cellular automaton components, acoustic emission definition, heterogeneous characterization of materials, cell mechanical model, engineering rockmass stability index, etc.
- The functions of CASRock include
- the failure process of heterogeneous rocks under complex stress conditions,
- the stability analysis of underground openings,
- coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) process analysis,
- spalling or rockburst risk analysis,
- dynamic analysis,
- creep analysis,
- the rock cracking process from continuity to discontinuity, and
- the large-scale parallel simulation of engineering rockmass.
- CASRock has been applied to the following areas
- water conservancy and hydropower engineering,
- high level nuclear waste disposal,
- CO2 geological sequestration, and
- coal mining engineering.