Fractures: Tension and Shear

Abstract The paper applies the observation cycle to rock fracturing processes. Specifically, it repeats the observation cycle by going from the large (field) scale to increasingly detailed laboratory scales. With this, it is possible to determine that what appear to be tensile or shea...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Einstein, Herbert H.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Vienna 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/136917