Detailed analysis of acoustic emission activity during catastrophic fracture of faults in rock

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 247-258

  Lei, Xinglin ^a,b   Masuda, Koji ^a   Nishizawa, Osamu ^a   Jouniaux, Laurence ^c   Liu, Liqiang ^b   Ma, Wentao ^b   Satoh, Takashi ^a   Kusunose, Kinichiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^c LABORATOIRE DE GÉOLOGIE   (France)

Author keywords

Acoustic emission; Fault nucleation; Microcracking; Rock sample

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; FRACTURE; ROCKS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

DYNAMIC FRACTURE; WAVEFORM RECORDING SYSTEMS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ACOUSTIC EMISSION; CRACK PROPAGATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; NUCLEATION; ROCK MECHANICS;

EID: 0347900535     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8141(03)00095-6     Document Type: Article

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