Formation of Riedel shear fractures in granular materials: Findings from analogue shear experiments and theoretical analyses

Tectonophysics

Volumn 471, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 253-259

  Misra, Santanu ^a   Mandal, Nibir ^b   Chakraborty, Chandan ^c  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH KOLKATA   (India)

^c INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Brittle failure; Coulomb Navier criterion; Rheology; Shear fractures

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC FACTOR; ANISOTROPIC MATERIAL; BRITTLE FAILURE; BRITTLE FAILURES; COULOMB STRESS; COULOMB-NAVIER CRITERION; GRANULAR MEDIUM; ISOTROPIC MATERIALS; MAXIMUM VALUES; MECHANICAL ANISOTROPY; RHEOLOGICAL CHANGE; SHEAR DIRECTION; SHEAR FAILURE; SHEAR FRACTURE; SHEAR FRACTURES; SHEAR LOCALIZATIONS; SHEAR PLANE; SIMPLE SHEAR; STRESS FACTORS; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS;

ANISOTROPY; DYNAMIC LOADS; ELASTICITY; EXPERIMENTS; FABRICS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; PLASTICITY; RHEOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; TALC; VISCOSITY;

FRACTURE;

BRITTLE FAILURE; COULOMB CRITERION; FRACTURE ZONE; GRANULAR MEDIUM; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR ZONE; TALC; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 67349221070     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.02.017     Document Type: Article

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