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Rock Mechanics deals with materials whose mechanical behavior is largely influenced by the presence of natural discontinuities. Due to this, it is necessary to refer to mechanical models which allow to introduce displacement discontinuities into the continuous medium.
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Castelli, M., Saetta, V., Scavia, C. (2003). Discontinuous character of rock masses: some open questions related to rock fracture mechanics and scale effects. In: Kolymbas, D. (eds) Advanced Mathematical and Computational Geomechanics. Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, vol 13. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45079-5_5
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