Fracture initiation, growth and effect on stress field: A numerical investigation

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1673-1689

  McKinnon, Stephen D ^a   Garrido De La Barra, Ivan ^b  

^a ITASCA CONSULTING GROUP   (United States)

^b Providencia ^*  (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE GROWTH; FRACTURE INITIATION; STRAIN SOFTENING MOHR-COULOMB CONSTITUTIVE MODEL;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FRACTURE; GEOLOGIC MODELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRAIN; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

FRACTURE INITIATION; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; NUMERICAL METHOD; STRESS FIELD;

EID: 0345472052     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8141(98)00080-7     Document Type: Article

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