High strain rate damage of Carrara marble

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 19, 2011, Pages

  Doan, Mai Linh ^a   Billi, Andrea ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATES; COMMINUTION; CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; EXPERIMENTS; FRACTURE; GRANITE; MARBLE;

ACTIVE FAULT; CARRARA MARBLES; FINAL STATE; HIGH STRAIN RATES; HIGH-STRAIN ZONES; LOW STRAIN RATES; LOW STRAINS; MICROFRACTURING; NEAR FAULT; ROCK PULVERIZATION; SPLIT HOPKINSON PRESSURE BARS;

STRAIN RATE;

CARBONATE; COSEISMIC PROCESS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DAMAGE MECHANICS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FAULT; GRANITE; MARBLE; ROCK MECHANICS; STRAIN RATE;

EID: 80053964930     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049169     Document Type: Article

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