“…The majority of current research focuses on how cyclic loading parameters affect the mechanical behavior and damage of rock mass. The studied loading parameters mainly include the waveform (Taheri et al, 2016), amplitude (Vaneghi et al, 2020b;Wang et al, 2020;Zhu et al, 2021), frequency (Li et al, 2020), stress level (Chen et al, 2020), number of cycles (Chen et al, 2017), loading rate (Huang and Li, 2014;Meng et al, 2016Meng et al, , 2019Zhang et al, 2018). In particular, the effect of waveforms, i.e.…”