The microscopic origin of thermal cracking in rocks: An investigation by simultaneous time-of-flight neutron diffraction and acoustic emission monitoring

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 2105-2108

  Meredith, Philip G ^a   Knight, Kevin S ^b   Boon, Stephen A ^a   Wood, Ian G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; CRACK INITIATION; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; QUARTZ; STRAIN; TENSILE STRENGTH; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMAL STRESS;

ACOUSTIC EMISSION MONITORING; GEOLOGICAL MATERIALS; THERMAL CRACKING;

ROCKS;

ACOUSTIC EMISSION; CRACKING; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; STRESS; THERMAL EXPANSION;

EID: 0035874459     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL012470     Document Type: Article

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