Abstract: To model effects of confining pressure on the post-peak mechanical properties for rock such as the degradation of strength and modulus, and dilatancy, the deformation process is simplified into three phases including linear-elastic, brittle degradation and perfect plasticity. Degradation index and dilatancy index are employed to reflect the effects of confining pressure on the peak-post mechanical properties for rock in this paper, and an elastic-brittle-plastic model with confining pressure is presented. Based on the transformation relationship between Hoek-Brown failure criterion and Mohr-Column failure criterion, how to obtain the calculation parameters of the peak-post mechanical model in this paper is presented. The Fish function method within FLAC is adopted to realize the elastic-brittle-plastic mechanical model model in this paper. In numerical case study the peak-post mechanical properties of rock under varied confining pressure including the degradation of strength and modulus, and dilatancy are modelled. The results show that the model can perfectly describe the deformation process and the effects of confining pressure on peak-post mechanical properties of rock．

Key words: confining stress, elastic-brittle-plastic mechanical model, Hoek-Brown failure criterion, Mohr-Column failure criterion