Fracture stiffness and aperture as a function of applied stress and contact geometry

28th U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics, USRMS 1987

Volumn , Issue , 1987, Pages 673-680

  Hopkins, Deborah L ^a   Cook, Neville G W ^a   Myer, Larry R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; ROCK MECHANICS; STIFFNESS;

APERTURE GEOMETRIES; CONTACT GEOMETRY; FRACTURE GEOMETRIES; HEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; PARAMETER SENSITIVITIES; SINGLE FRACTURE; SPATIAL ORIENTATIONS; SPECIFIC STIFFNESS;

FRACTURE;

EID: 85052714019     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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