Three-dimensional brittle shear fracturing by tensile crack interaction
Faults in brittle rock are shear fractures formed through the interaction and coalescence of many tensile microcracks. The geometry of these microcracks and their surrounding elastic stress fields control the orientation of the final shear fracture surfaces. The classic Coulomb–Mohr failure criterio...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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Nature Publishing Group
2006
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22462 |