Crack Coalescence in Molded Gypsum and Carrara Marble: Part 1. Macroscopic Observations and Interpretation

By L. N. Wong, Herbert H. Einstein. 2009

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Subfields: Civil and Structural Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, Ocean Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

• The 3D Numerical Simulation for the Propagation Process of Multiple Pre-existing Flaws in Rock-Like Materials Subjected to Biaxial Compressive Loads (2016, background): “…compression in 2D physical experimental works (Bobet and Einstein 1998a, b; Lee and Jeon 2011; Park and Bobet 2009, 2010; Sagong and Bobet 2002; Wong and Einstein 2009a, b; Wong et al. 2001; Zhou et al. 2014) and numerical studies (Zhou et al. 2015a, b; Bobet and Einstein 1998a, b; Liu et al.…”
• Crack Initiation, Propagation and Coalescence in Rock-Like Material Containing Two Flaws: a Numerical Study Based on Bonded-Particle Model Approach (2013, background): “The nine coalescence categories previously observed (Wong and Einstein 2009a), except category 4, have also been observed in the present numerical study.”
• Cracking and Stress–Strain Behavior of Rock-Like Material Containing Two Flaws Under Uniaxial Compression (2016, background): “19b, c and 20b–d, which is in agreement with the observations by Wong and Einstein (2009c).”
• Experimental Investigation on the Fatigue Mechanical Properties of Intermittently Jointed Rock Models Under Cyclic Uniaxial Compression with Different Loading Parameters (2017, background): “2001; Sagong and Bobet 2002; Wong and Einstein 2009a, b, c); they first identified the nature of the coalescence cracks and proposed associated coalescence classification schemes.”
• Numerical Simulation of Crack Growth and Coalescence in Rock-Like Materials Containing Multiple Pre-existing Flaws (2015, background): “…and Einstein 1991; Shen et al. 1995; Bobet and Einstein 1998; Wong and Chau 1998; Wong et al. 2001; Sagong and Bobet 2002; Park and Bobet 2009; Wong and Einstein 2009a, b; Yang et al. 2012; Zhou et al. 2013), numerical reproduction of these phenomena is extremely helpful for interpretative…”
• Dynamic Strength and Fracturing Behavior of Single-Flawed Prismatic Marble Specimens Under Impact Loading with a Split-Hopkinson Pressure Bar (2016, background): “This is inconsistent with the results of quasi-static compressive tests, in which tensile cracks were observed to form earlier than shear cracks (Park and Bobet 2010; Wong and Einstein 2009b; Yang and Jing 2011).”
• Loading rate effects on cracking behavior of flaw-contained specimens under uniaxial compression (2013, methodology): “2) and parameters (Table 2) are generally in accordance with those of our previous studies (Zhang and Wong 2012a,b), which are in turn comparable with those of the physical test for a rock-like material (gypsum) (Wong 2008; Wong and Einstein 2009a,b,c).”
• High-Speed Photography and Digital Optical Measurement Techniques for Geomaterials: Fundamentals and Applications (2017, methodology): “(Wong and Einstein 2009b) summarized the fundamentals of their experimental techniques using a high-speed camera, video capturing operation for examining crack behaviour.”