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The shear characteristics of rock joints under constant normal stiffness (CNS) boundary condition are critical to the stability of underground engineering rock mass. Five different rock joint profiles with random morphology were constructed using the independent segmentation method of the Hurst exponent. Based on the continuously yielding joint model, the discrete element calculation models of double rough parallel joints with different joint surface roughness and spacing of joints under CNS boundary condition were established using UDEC software to investigate the shear effect of joints under CNS boundary condition. The results show that under CNS boundary condition, the shear stress, normal displacement, normal stress, and surface resistance index (SRI) all increase with the increase of joint surface roughness coefficient (JRC) for both single- and double-joint specimens, and these of the single-joint are greater than these of the double-joint. With the increase of the joint spacing  d , the peak shear stress  τ   y  , and the peak surface resistance index (SRI  p  ) show a gradually increasing trend, and the influence of  d  on  τ   y   and SRI  p   is greater with the increase of JRC, and both  τ   y   and SRI  p   show a linear increasing trend with the increase of JRC. With the increase of  d  for the same JRC, both normal displacement and normal stress show a gradually increasing trend, and also, the increased amplitudes gradually increase; with the increase of JRC for the same  d , the two parameters also show an increasing trend.

Numerical Simulation on Shear Behavior of Double Rough Parallel Joints Under Constant Normal Stiffness Boundary Condition