... Abstract The time to failure of rocks under load is governed by various factors such as rock structure including voids and fracture, loading rate and magnitude, boundary conditions, environmental conditions, and so on. The lifetime could be predicted by either empirical exponential laws...

.... The strength recovery was observed in the re-sliding process after the holding period especially when the confining pressure is relatively low. An elastoplastic model incorporating the healing and decay of the rock structure is proposed to describe the strength recovery in the re-sliding process. The proposed...