A sudden drop of fractal dimension: A likely precursor of catastrophic failure in disordered media

Philosophical Magazine Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 33-40

  Lu, C ^a   Mai, Y W ^a   Xie, H ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; MICROCRACKS; MINING; ROCK MECHANICS;

DAMAGE EVOLUTION PROCESSES; FRACTAL DIMENSIONS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

FRACTALS;

EID: 27544507328     PISSN: 09500839     EISSN: 13623036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09500830500153883     Document Type: Article

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