Study of deformability of fractured rocks with correlated fracture length and aperture

ISRM International Symposium - 5th Asian Rock Mechanics Symposium 2008, ARMS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1347-1354

  Baghbanan, A ^a,b   Jing, L ^b  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aperture Length Correlation; Discrete element method (DEM); Discrete Fracture Network (DFN); Fracture Deformation; Representative Elementary Volume (REV); Strength

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; ROCK MECHANICS; ROCKS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

DISCRETE FRACTURE NETWORK; FRACTURE APERTURES; FRACTURE PROPERTY; FRACTURED ROCK MASS; NONLINEAR ALGORITHMS; NORMAL DISPLACEMENT; REPRESENTATIVE ELEMENTARY VOLUME; STRENGTH;

FRACTURE;

EID: 85054974106     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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