Investigating the closure stress and crack initiation stress in fractured rocks using the student t distribution and Monte Carlo simulation method

• Hanjie Lin,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Civil Engineering, Chongqing Three Gorges University, Wanzhou, Chongqing, China

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• Yue Qiang ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: qiangyue-320@163.com

  Affiliation Department of Civil Engineering, Chongqing Three Gorges University, Wanzhou, Chongqing, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8505-8564

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• Li Li,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Civil Engineering, Chongqing Three Gorges University, Wanzhou, Chongqing, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1925-3169

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• Hongjian Li,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Civil Engineering, Chongqing Three Gorges University, Wanzhou, Chongqing, China

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• Siyu Liang

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Civil Engineering, Chongqing Three Gorges University, Wanzhou, Chongqing, China

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