Estimation of the damage of a porous limestone from continuous (P- and S-) wave velocity measurements under uniaxial loading and different hydrous conditions

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 183, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1362-1375

  Eslami, J ^a   Grgic, D ^a   Hoxha, D ^b  

^a CRPG CNRS   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Geomechanics; Mechanics, theory and modelling; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENTS; CYCLING TESTS; GEOMECHANICS; INFLUENCE OF WATER; INTERGRANULAR PRESSURE SOLUTIONS; OOLITIC LIMESTONE; P WAVES; PHYSIO-CHEMICAL; POROUS ROCKS; S-WAVES; STATIC ELASTIC MODULUS; SUBCRITICAL CRACKING; UNI-AXIAL LOADING; UNIAXIAL STRESS; WAVE VELOCITY;

ANISOTROPY; COALESCENCE; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; LIMESTONE; MECHANICS; MICROCRACKS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; STRESS ANALYSIS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ELASTIC MODULI;

CYCLIC LOADING; ELASTIC MODULUS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOMECHANICS; HYDROMECHANICS; LIMESTONE; MICROCRACK; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; UNIAXIAL TEST; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 78449258864     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04801.x     Document Type: Article

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