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25 5 Vol.25 No.5 2006 5 Chinese Journal of Rock Mechanics and Engineering May 2006 ( ) SCI O 241 A 1000 6915(2006)05 0875 14 DIGITAL REPRESENTATION OF MESO-GEOMATERIAL SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION AND ASSOCIATED NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF GEOMECHANICSMETHODS APPLICATIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS YUE Zhongqi (Department of Civil Engineering University of Hong KongHong Kong China) Abstract This paper presents the author′s efforts over the past decade for the establishment of a workable approach for geomechanics by taking into account the actual spatial distribution of different mineralsparticulars and components in geomaterials at the meso-scale range. The primary goal of the approach is to provide a possible solution to solve the two intrinsic problems associated with the current main-stream methods for geomechanics. The problems are (1) the constitutive models and parameters for soils and rocks cannot be given accurately in geomechanical prediction and (2) there are numerous constitutive models for soils and rocks in the literature. The problems are possibly caused by the homogenization or averaging method in analyzing laboratory test results for establishing the constitutive models and parameters. The averaging method employs an assumption that the test samples can be represented by a homogeneous medium. Such averaging method ignores the fact that the geomaterial samples are also composed of a number of materials and components whose properties may have significant differences. In the proposed approach digital image processing methods are used as a measurement tool 2004 12 152005