Dr. Mahmoud Behnia behnia@iut.ac.ir Google Scholar Office Department of Mining Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology Phone +98 313 3915105 Fax +98 313 3912776 Positions Associate Professor of Rock Mechanics Research Interests Rock Mechanics Fracture Mechanics Rock Dynamic Hydraulic Fracturing Rock Friction Dr. Mahmoud Behnia type: Journal Title Conference / Journal Date Drilling-Based Rock Strength Estimation: A Validated Model for Mohr-Coulomb and a New Theoretical-Empirical Approach for Hoek-Brown Parameters Results in Engineering 2025-11 Investigating the factors influencing the measurement of static friction angle of discontinuities in weak rocks Journal of Industrial Safety 2025-07 Tensile Fracture Propagation in Deep Coalbed Methane Layers Under Brazilian Test: A Quantitative Analysis Using Digital Rock Technology and Deep Learning-Based Image Segmentation INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROCK MECHANICS AND MINING SCIENCES 2025-06 Investigating the impact of thermal treatment on fracture toughness and sub-critical crack growth parameters under mode II loading THEORETICAL AND APPLIED FRACTURE MECHANICS 2024-08 Experimental and Numerical Investigations on the Effect of In Situ Stress and Discontinuities Orientation on the Deformation Modulus of Rock Masses 2024-02 Experimental investigation on the effect of grain size of granitic rocks on the fracture roughness and toughness 2024-01 Analytical simulation of mode I fracture generation from dynamic frictional surfaces governed by slip weakening model 2023-12 Experimental observations on the effect of strain rate on rock tensile fracturing 2022-12 Experimental observations on the effect of thermal treatment on the crack speed and mode I and II fracture toughness in brittle and ductile rocks 2022-08 type: Conference Title Date NULL 2024-02