Fracture in Westerly granite under AE feedback and constant strain rate loading: Nucleation, quasi-static propagation, and the transition to unstable fracture propagation

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 163, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 995-1019

  Thompson, Ben D ^a,b   Young, R Paul ^b   Lockner, David A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic emission; Earthquake; Granite; Nucleation; Rupture; Shear fracture

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSION; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; GRANITE; RUPTURE; STRAIN RATE;

EID: 33745115362     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-006-0054-x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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