Fracture initiation toughness and propagation toughness of Laurentian granite rock

12th International Conference on Fracture 2009, ICF-12

Volumn 6, Issue , 2009, Pages 4901-4910

  Lu, F ^a   Chen, R ^a,b   Lu, L ^a   Xia, K ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSUMED ENERGY; CRACK SURFACES; FRACTURE INITIATION; GRANITE ROCK; HIGH LOADING RATE; INITIATION AND PROPAGATION; INITIATION TOUGHNESS; LASER DISPLACEMENT METER; LAURENTIAN; LOADING HISTORY; LOADING RATE; RESIDUAL KINETIC ENERGY; SPLIT HOPKINSON PRESSURE BARS; STRESS WAVE; THREE-POINT BENDING TEST; TWO-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL SIMULATION;

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FRACTURE; GRANITE; KINETICS; METALLIC GLASS;

LOADING;

EID: 84869792683     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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