Three-dimensional brittle shear fracturing by tensile crack interaction

Nature

Volumn 439, Issue 7072, 2006, Pages 64-67

  Healy, David ^a   Jones, Richard R ^b   Holdsworth, Robert E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COALESCENCE; COMPRESSIBILITY; FLUID MECHANICS; GEOMETRY; ROCKS; SEISMOLOGY; TENSILE STRESS;

COULOMB-MOHR FAILURE CRITERION; ELASTIC STRESS AROUND TENSILE MICROCRACKS; TENSILE CRACK INTERACTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL POLYMODAL FAULT PATTERNS;

BRITTLE FRACTURE;

BRITTLE FRACTURE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAULTING; FRACTURE MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; EARTHQUAKE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; SHEAR STRESS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 30144438423     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04346     Document Type: Article

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