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This paper presents the development of the rigid block version of discontinuous deformation analysis and its preliminary application in rockfall simulation. Modifications, including the reduction of the error due to large rigid body rotation by using post-correction at each time step of calculation and the incorporation of mass proportional damping to account for energy losses, are made to meet the...