New insights into the development of brittle shear fractures from a 3-D numerical model of microcrack interaction

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 249, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 14-28

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

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fault; Fracture; Interaction; Microcrack; Polymodal; Quadrimodal

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELLIPSOIDAL VOIDS; LINEAR ISOTROPIC ELASTIC MATRIX; MICROCRACK INTERACTION;

BRITTLE FRACTURE; COMPRESSIVE STRESS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROCRACKING; MICROCRACKS; SHEAR DEFORMATION; TENSILE STRESS;

TECTONICS;

DEFORMATION; MICROCRACK; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHEAR;

EID: 33747825393     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.06.041     Document Type: Article

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