Experimental Rock Deformation — The Brittle Field

• Main Authors: Paterson, Mervyn S. (Author), Wong, Teng-fong (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Edition: Second, Completely Revised and Updated Edition.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geology.; Structural geology.; Mineralogy.; Geotechnical engineering.; Earth Sciences.; Structural Geology.; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences.

This monograph deals with the part of the field of experimental 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 and ductile behaviour in rock, corresponding more or less to a distinction...

Table of Contents:

• Experimental Procedures
• Experimental Studies on the Brittle Fracture Stress
• Griffith Theory of Brittle Failure
• Evolution of Physical Properties during Brittle Failure
• Micromechanics of Brittle Fracture
• The Role of Pore Fluids
• Friction and Sliding Phenomena
• Brittle-Ductile Transition.