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A constitutive model was developed to describe the nonlinear behaviour of intact rocks under static loading. The model includes the pre-peak elastic and the post-peak strain-softening behaviour, as well as dilation. The model employs the shrinking of the failure criteria by progress of plastic deformation, to consider the strain-softening behaviour of rocks. A non-associated plastic potential function...