Assessment of excavation damaged zone using a micromechanics model

Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 301-310

  Cai, M ^a   Kaiser, P K ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Constitutive model; Crack density; Excavation damaged zone; Microseismic event; Seismic velocity

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; CRACK INITIATION; DATA REDUCTION; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; EXCAVATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; GRANITE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMIC WAVES; STRESS ANALYSIS; TENSILE STRESS;

CRACK DENSITY; EXCAVATION DAMAGED ZONE (EDZ); MICROSEISMIC (MS) EVENTS; ROCK FRACTURING;

COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS;

MICROMECHANICS; TUNNELING;

EID: 18144395455     PISSN: 08867798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tust.2004.12.002     Document Type: Article

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