简介：Theacousticemission(AE)featuresinrockfracturearesimulatednumericallywithdiscreteelementmodel(DEM).Thespecimenisconstructedbyusingsphericalparticlesbondedviatheparallelbondmodel.Asaresultoftheheterogeneityinrockspecimen,thefailurecriterionofbondedparticleiscoupledbytheshearandtensilestrengths,whichfollowanormalprobabilitydistribution.TheKaisereffectissimulatedinthefractureprocess,foracubicrockspecimenunderuniaxialcompressionwithaconstantrate.TheAEnumberisestimatedwithbreakagesofbondedparticlesusingapairofparameters,inthetemporalandspatialscale,respectively.ItisfoundthattheAEnumbersandtheelasticenergyreleasecurvescoincide.TherangefortheKaisereffectfromtheAEnumberandtheelasticenergyreleasearethesame.Furthermore,thefrequency-magnituderelationoftheAEnumbershowsthatthevalueofBdeterminedwithDEMisconsistentwiththeexperimentaldata.