Compressive failure of mudstone samples containing quartz veins using rapid AE monitoring: The role of asperities

Tectonophysics

Volumn 328, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 329-340

  Lei, X L ^a,b   Nishizawa, O ^a   Kusunose, K ^a   Cho, A ^a   Satoh, T ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Acoustic emission; Asperity; Dilatancy; Fracturing; Mudstone; Precursor phenomena

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSION; ASPERITY; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; FAILURE MECHANISM; FAULTING; MUDSTONE; QUARTZ;

EID: 0034481240     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(00)00215-8     Document Type: Article

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