Subcritical crack growth in rocks in an aqueous environment

Exploration Geophysics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 163-171

  Nara, Yoshitaka ^a   Takada, Masafumi ^b   Igarashi, Toshifumi ^a   Hiroyoshi, Naoki ^a   Kaneko, Katsuhiko ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JGC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aqueous environment; Double torsion test; Rock; Subcritical crack growth; Temperature.

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS ENVIRONMENT; AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; CONTROLLED TEMPERATURE; CRACK VELOCITIES; DISTILLED WATER; DOUBLE-TORSION TEST; HYDROXIDE IONS; RESEARCH RESULTS; SODIUM HYDROXIDES; SUBCRITICAL CRACK GROWTH; SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT; TIME-DEPENDENT;

ASPHALT PAVEMENTS; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACK TIPS; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); ROCKS; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS; TESTING; TORSION TESTING; TORSIONAL STRESS; VELOCITY;

PH EFFECTS;

ANDESITE; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; CRACK PROPAGATION; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; GRANITE; HYDROXIDE; ROCK; SODIUM; TORSION;

EID: 67649547143     PISSN: 08123985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/EG08102     Document Type: Article

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