With the gradual depletion of shallow high-grade mineral resources, global mining activities are shifting toward deeper regions with more complex geological conditions. Rocks exhibit significantly different mechanical responses under high confining pressure environments, posing new challenges to deep mining safety. To address this, this study proposes an optimized rock damage constitutive model that characterizes the influence of confining pressure on rock mechanical behavior, incorporating its peak strength enhancement effect and regulatory mechanism on post-peak softening behavior. The core innovation lies in establishing an inverse relationship between softening parameters and confining pressure, as confining pressure increases, softening parameters decrease. This inverse relationship enables the model to reasonably reflect the inhibitory effect of confining pressure on the rock softening process, meaning that under higher confining pressure, the material exhibits slower stress decay and more pronounced ductile characteristics. This model can consistently describe brittle responses under low confining pressure and ductile responses under high confining pressure. The findings provide reliable theoretical support for predicting rock mass failure and conducting stability analysis under deep mining conditions.

In recent years, microbial induced calcium carbonate precipitation (MICP) and vegetation slope protection technology have been proven to be feasible. However, since the process of MICP-improved vegetation slope protection is affected by factors such as vegetation type, the research on the adaptability and stability of roots in the root-soil complex is still not in-depth. Therefore, this paper carried out plant adaptability and erosion resistance tests and triaxial tests on MICP-solidified root-soil complexes to explore the changing laws of vegetation germination adaptability, erosion resistance and soil mechanical properties under the action of MICP solidification. The results showed that: (1) the germination potential of tall fescue decreased from 72.3% to 40.7% with concentration and from 66% to 26.5% with number of times; that of bahiagrass decreased from 11.4% to 2.2% and from 8.5% to 1.2%. Low concentrations have little impact, the number of times has a greater impact than the concentration, and osmotic stress is obvious; (2) Microorganisms can enhance the ability to resist erosion. After 6 sprayings, the erosion rate is only 1.5%. Microorganisms combined with plants can significantly inhibit continuous rainfall; (3) The stress-strain curve of MICP-reinforced root-soil composite shows an upward trend and is a strain hardening type. Roots can promote the formation of calcium carbonate, cement the soil and fill the pores, so that the c and φ values of the MICP-reinforced root-soil complex are positively correlated with the calcium carbonate and root content, and the C value increases more significantly; (4) MICP technology has a great influence on the root The contribution rate of soil composite strength is very important, and its MICP strength contribution rate is as high as 80% under the optimal root content. MICP can effectively improve the adaptability of vegetation slope protection technology and improve the stability of slopes. Therefore, it can be considered that MICP has important significance for improving the stability of slopes by improving vegetation slope protection technology.