Microcracking in calcite and dolomite marble: Microstructural influences and effects on properties

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1263-1279

  Shushakova, Victoria ^a   Fuller Jr , Edwin R ^a   Siegesmund, Siegfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Finite element modeling; Lattice preferred orientation; Marble; Maximum principal stress; Microcracking; Shape preferred orientation; Strain energy density; Thermal expansion anisotropy; Thermal expansion coefficient

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT MODELING; LATTICE PREFERRED ORIENTATION; MAXIMUM PRINCIPAL STRESS; SHAPE PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS; STRAIN ENERGY DENSITY; THERMAL EXPANSION ANISOTROPY; THERMAL EXPANSION COEFFICIENTS;

CALCITE; COOLING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; HEATING; MARBLE; TEXTURES; THERMAL EXPANSION;

MICROCRACKING;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; BIODEGRADATION; CALCITE; COOLING; CRACKING; CRYSTALLINITY; DOLOMITE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE; GRAIN SIZE; HEATING; MICROCRACK; MICROSTRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; THERMAL EXPANSION;

EID: 84878563922     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-012-1995-2     Document Type: Article

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