Asperity height and aperture of an artificial tensile fracture of metric size

Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 325-341

  Sakaguchi, K ^a   Tomono, J ^a   Okumura, K ^a   Ogawa, Y ^a   Matsuki, K ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aperture distribution; Asperity height; Power spectral density; Size effect; Tensile rock fracture

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; TENSILE PROPERTIES;

APERTURE DISTRIBUTION; METRIC SIZE; SURFACE PROFILE MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS; TENSILE FRACTURE; TENSILE ROCK FRACTURE;

GRANITE;

ASPERITY; FRACTURE; FRACTURE GEOMETRY; GRANITE; HEIGHT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SIZE EFFECT; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 42949116878     PISSN: 07232632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00603-005-0102-3     Document Type: Article

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