Experimental and modelled mechanical behaviour of a rock fracture under normal stress

Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 869-892

  Marache, A ^a   Riss, J ^a   Gentier, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b BRGM   (France)

Author keywords

Analytical model; Experimental device; Fracture; Mechanical behaviour; Normal stress; Parametric study; Roughness

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; END EFFECTORS; EXPERIMENTS; MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MECHATRONICS; ROCKS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STRESSES; TRANSDUCERS;

ANALYTICAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL DEVICE; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR; NORMAL STRESS; PARAMETRIC STUDY; ROUGHNESS;

FRACTURE;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; MODELING; ROCK PROPERTY; STIFFNESS; STRESS; YOUNG MODULUS;

EID: 58049184035     PISSN: 07232632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00603-008-0166-y     Document Type: Article

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