The Effect of Varying Damage History in Crystalline Rocks on the P- and S-Wave Velocity under Hydrostatic Confining Pressure

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 170, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 493-505

  Blake, O O ^a   Faulkner, D R ^a   Rietbrock, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; CRACK PROPAGATION; ELASTICITY; GRANITE; HYDRAULICS; MICROCRACKS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; REMOTE SENSING; ROCK PRESSURE; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CONFINING PRESSURES; DYNAMIC ELASTIC PROPERTY; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; ELASTIC WAVE VELOCITY; HYDROSTATIC CONFINING PRESSURE; HYDROSTATIC LOADING; P- AND S-WAVE VELOCITIES; REMOTE SENSING TOOLS;

LOADING;

CONFINING PRESSURE; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRYSTALLINE ROCK; DYNAMIC PROPERTY; ELASTIC PROPERTY; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MICROCRACK; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; UNIAXIAL TEST; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 84874974054     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-012-0550-0     Document Type: Article

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