Explanation for fracture spacing in layered materials

Nature

Volumn 403, Issue 6771, 2000, Pages 753-756

  Bai, T ^b   Pollard, D D ^b   Gao, H ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE MECHANICS; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; LAYERED MEDIUM; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; DENSITY; ENGINEERING; GEOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 0034677484     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35001550     Document Type: Article

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