Monitoring fracture propagation in a soft rock (Neapolitan Tuff) using acoustic emissions and digital images

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 163, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2171-2204

  Hall, Stephen A ^a   de Sanctis, Fiorenza ^a,b,c   Viggiani, Gioacchino ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE SOLS SOLIDES STRUCTURES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c Lombardi Engineering   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acoustice mission; Digital images; Fracture; Pre existing flaws; Rock bridge; Soft rock

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSION; CRACK; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FAILURE MECHANISM; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; GEOMETRY; IMAGING METHOD; MONITORING; PHOTOGRAPHY; ROCK MECHANICS;

EID: 33751066321     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-006-0117-z     Document Type: Conference Paper

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