Brittle failure of rock materials
Subtitle: test results and constitutive models
By: George E. Andreev.
Publisher: A.A. Balkema
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Rotterdam; Brookfield, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 446
Subjects: Rock mechanics; Brittleness; Fracture mechanics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-446).
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: 1. Terminology; title: 2. Strength theories; title: 3. Contemporary models of brittle failure; title: 4. Laboratory tests for determining some mechanical properties of rocks; title: 5. Mohr strength envelopes; title: 6. Experimental investigation of brittle behavior; title: 7. Scale effect; title: 8. Concluding remarks; title: References.