Microcracks in ultrabasic rocks under uniaxial compressive stress

Engineering Geology

Volumn 117, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 104-113

  Rigopoulos, Ioannis ^a   Tsikouras, Basilios ^a   Pomonis, Panagiotis ^b   Hatzipanagiotou, Konstantin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fluorescent microscopy; Image analysis; Microcracks; Ophiolite; Ultrabasic rocks; Uniaxial compressive strength

Indexed keywords

APPLIED STRESS; BEFORE AND AFTER; CLEAVAGE PLANE; CRACK PATHS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS; FAILURE SURFACE; FLUORESCENT MICROSCOPY; FRACTURE SURFACES; HARZBURGITES; INITIATION AND PROPAGATION; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR; NORTHERN GREECE; OPHIOLITE; ORTHOPYROXENE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOM ORIENTATIONS; SPINEL GRAINS; TEXTURAL CHARACTERISTIC; TRANSGRANULAR CRACK; ULTRABASIC ROCKS; UNI-AXIAL COMPRESSION; UNIAXIAL COMPRESSION TESTS; UNIAXIAL COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH;

COMPRESSION TESTING; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COMPRESSIVE STRESS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FLUORESCENCE; GRAIN GROWTH; IGNEOUS ROCKS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LITHOLOGY; OLIVINE; ROCKS; SERPENTINE; SILICATE MINERALS; STRESS CORROSION CRACKING; TENSILE STRESS; TEXTURES;

MICROCRACKS;

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; HARZBURGITE; LITHOTYPE; MICROCRACK; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROCK MECHANICS; STRESS RESISTANCE; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK; UNIAXIAL STRENGTH;

EID: 78650571917     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2010.10.010     Document Type: Article

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