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Experimental Rock Deformation - The Brittle Field

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  • © 1978

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Authors:
  1. Mervyn S. Paterson

    1. Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

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Part of the book series: Minerals, Rocks and Mountains (MINERALS, volume 13)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-3

  3. Experimental Procedures

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    Pages 4-15

  4. Experimental Studies on the Brittle Fracture Stress

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    Pages 16-50

  5. Theories of Brittle Failure

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    Pages 51-70

  6. The Role of Pore Fluid Pressure

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    Pages 71-87

  7. Friction and Sliding Phenomena

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    Pages 88-111

  8. Pre-Failure, Post-Failure, and Mechanistic Aspects of Brittle Behaviour

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    Pages 112-160

  9. Brittle-Ductile Transition

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    Pages 161-195

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 196-256
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This monograph deals with the part of the field of ex-' perimental rock deformation that is dominated by the phenomena of brittle fracture on one scale or another. Thus a distinction has been drawn between the fields of brittle und ductile behaviour in rock, corresponding more or less to a distinction between the phenomena of fracture and flow. It is hoped eventually to present a survey of the ductile field in a separate volume. The last chapter of this volume deals with the transition between the two fields. The scope of this survey has been limited to the mec.hanical properties of rock viewed as a material on the laboratory scale. Thus, the topic and approach is of a "materials science" kind rather than of a "structures" kind. We are dealing with only one part of the wider field of rock mechanics, which also includes structural or boundary value problems, for example, those of the stability of slopes, the collapse of mine openings, earth­ quakes, the folding of stratified rock, and the convec­ tive motion of the earth's mantle. One topic thus ex­ cluded is the role of jointing, which it is commonly necessary to take into account in applications in engi­ neering and mining, and probably often in geology too.

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  • Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

    Mervyn S. Paterson

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