Determination of fracture toughness KIC by using the flattened Brazilian disk specimen for rocks

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 193-201

  Wang, Qi Zhi ^a   Xing, Lei ^b  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HAINAN AIRLINES   (China)

Author keywords

Flattened Brazilian disk specimen; Fracture toughness; Rock

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPRESSION TESTING; CRACK INITIATION; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS;

QUASI-BRITTLE MATERIALS;

ROCK MECHANICS;

EID: 0033333865     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0013-7944(99)00065-x     Document Type: Article

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