Velocity measurements and crack density determination during wet triaxial experiments on Oshima and Toki Granites

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 160, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 869-887

  Schubnel, A ^a   Nishizawa, O ^b   Masuda, K ^b   Lei, X J ^b   Xue, Z ^c   Guegen Y ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GÉOLOGIE   (France)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^c KISO JIBAN CONSULTANTS CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acoustic emissions; Crack density tensor; Effective medium; Elastic velocities; Granite

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSION; CONFINING PRESSURE; DAMAGE MECHANICS; FAILURE MECHANISM; GRANITE; MICROCRACK; ROCK MECHANICS; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 12244279994     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00012570     Document Type: Article

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