“…It is noted that in the established works devoted to constitutive modeling, the friction coefficient μ* is conventionally considered constant for the sake of simplification (Molladavoodi, 2015;Qu et al, 2021;Ren et al, 2022;. Recently, however, a series of investigations have revealed that the friction coefficient is not a constant material parameter; rather, it is dependent on a number of factors, for example, ambient temperature, stress state, moisture, damage state, friction rate, and spatio-temporal scale (Ben-David & Fineberg, 2011;Putelat et al, 2011;Scholz, 2019;Zhang & Ma, 2021;C. X. Zhao, Liu, et al, 2023;Thom et al, 2023).…”