Study of failure and scale effects in rocks under uniaxial compression using 3D cellular automata

International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 674-685

  Pan, Peng Zhi ^a   Feng, Xia Ting ^a   Hudson, John A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ROCK AND SOIL MECHANICS   (China)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic emission; Complete stress strain curve; EPCA3D; Rock failure process; Scale effects

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSION TESTING; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; CODES (SYMBOLS); NUMERICAL MODELS; STRESS-STRAIN CURVES;

ACOUSTIC-EMISSIONS; COMPLETE STRESS-STRAIN CURVE; DIFFERENT SHAPES; DIFFERENT SIZES; EPCA3D; FAILURE PROCESS; ROCK FAILURE PROCESS; ROCK SPECIMEN; SCALE EFFECTS; SIZE AND SHAPE;

ROCKS;

ACOUSTIC EMISSION; CELLULAR AUTOMATON; CRACK PROPAGATION; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; ROCK MECHANICS; SCALE EFFECT; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TESTING METHOD; UNIAXIAL TEST;

EID: 61849094808     PISSN: 13651609     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrmms.2008.11.001     Document Type: Article

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