A unified model for characterisation and mechanical behaviour of rock fractures

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 160, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 989-998

  Lanaro, Flavio ^a   Stephansson, Ove ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aperture; Constitutive model; Fractals; Normal loading; Rock fractures; Shearing

Indexed keywords

ASPERITY; CONSTITUTIVE EQUATION; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; FRACTURE APERTURE; FRACTURE MECHANICS; ROCK MECHANICS; ROUGHNESS;

EID: 0037401137     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00012577     Document Type: Article

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