The Micromechanics of Westerley Granite at Large Compressive Loads

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 168, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2181-2198

  Bhat, H S ^a,b   Sammis, C G ^a   Rosakis, A J ^b  

^a Department of Earth Sciences ^*  (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIVE LOADS; DAMAGE MECHANICS; DAMAGE MODEL; DISLOCATION FLOW; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAILURE SURFACE; HIGH CONFINING PRESSURE; HIGH-STRAIN-RATE; INITIAL FLAW; LOADING RATE; LOW CONFINING PRESSURE; LOW LOADING; LOW TEMPERATURES; METEORITE IMPACT; MICROMECHANICAL DAMAGE; NEGATIVE CURVATURE; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR STRAIN; QUARTZ GRAINS; SIMPLIFYING ASSUMPTIONS; STRAIN ENERGY DENSITY;

EXPERIMENTS; GRANITE; LOADING; MECHANICS; METEOR IMPACTS; QUARTZ; STRAIN RATE; STRESS-STRAIN CURVES; UNDERGROUND EXPLOSIONS;

FAILURE (MECHANICAL);

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CONFINING PRESSURE; DAMAGE MECHANICS; GRANITE; MICROMECHANICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROCK MECHANICS; STRAIN RATE; STRESS MEASUREMENT; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TRIAXIAL TEST;

EID: 84857607394     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-011-0271-9     Document Type: Article

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