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MECHANICAL MODEL

 

Fracture Growth Model

2002

 

Numerical model of fracture growth: program Joints, plan view. Blue, fracture opening; red, stress intensity factor. J. Olson.


Reference

Olson, Jon, 2004, Predicting fracture swarms - the influence of subcritical crack growth and the crack-tip process zone on joint spacing in rock, in Cosgrove, J.W., and Engelder, T., editors, The initiation, propagation, and arrest of joints and other fractures, Geological Society of London Special Publication 231, 73-87.  ¥

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Geology Foundation of the John A. and Katherine G. Jackson School of Geosciences.