Fracturing behavior of prismatic specimens containing single flaws

Proceedings of the 41st U.S. Rock Mechanics Symposium - ARMA's Golden Rocks 2006 - 50 Years of Rock Mechanics

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Wong, L N Y ^a   Einstein, H ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

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CRACKING MECHANISMS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; FRACTURING BEHAVIORS; HIGH SPEED VIDEO SYSTEM; MARBLE SPECIMENS; PROCESS ZONE; WING CRACK;

CRACKS; EXPERIMENTS; GYPSUM; MARBLE; MECHANISMS; ROCK MECHANICS;

ROCKS;

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