Experimental study on fracture toughness and tensile strength of a clay

By Jun-jie Wang, Jungao Zhu, C. Chiu, H. Zhang. 2007

172 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Civil and Structural Engineering, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Mechanics of Materials

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In Civil and Structural Engineering

1. F. Gordaninejad
2. R. Gibson

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1. G. Dresen
2. Jonghwan Suhr
3. Lingyu Sun
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Citations in the corpus

• Influence of relative humidity on fracture toughness of rock: Implications for subcritical crack growth (2012, background): “Wang et al. (2007) reported that the fracture toughness of clay decreased with increasing the water content.”
• What controls the mechanical properties of shale rocks? – Part I: Strength and Young's modulus (2015, background): “For clays, the tensile strength can be also empirically related to the mode I fracture toughness (Wang et al., 2007).”
• Energy absorption capability of nanocomposites: A review (2009, background): “020 [186], CNTs [186,194,79], MWCNTs [195], silicate particles [188], PVA(poly(vinylalcohol)) [79], clay [196], interfacial shear strength of CNT/polymer [136,197,198], tension modulus of monocrystalline silicon [199], PE and PA [199], PVA [79], CNTs [142,194], carbon [142] and carbon whiskers [142]”