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Brittleness is an important feature of rock and is related to many mechanical behavior of rock. An accurate evaluation of rock brittleness lays an analytical foundation of drilling and hydraulic fracturing. At present, there are several evaluation methods of rock brittleness, but none of them has taken the evolution of internal damage into consideration during the loading process, and thus will not...