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Joints greatly affect the mechanical behavior and crack evolution of jointed rock masses. In this paper, numerical specimens containing pre-existing random joints are constructed based on a combination of the fat-joint and smooth-joint models in the particle flow code in two dimensions (PFC2D). Then, uniaxial compression of these specimens is carried out to reveal the influence of joint length or...