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Rock Fracture

Rock Fracture is a mechanical process in solid earth materials characterized by the propagation of cracks or discontinuities in response to stress exceeding the rock's strength, within the broader class of deformation mechanisms in tectonophysics.

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Fundamentals of rock mechanics

International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences & Geomechanics Abstracts · 1974 · 4.9K citations

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A bonded-particle model for rock

D.O. Potyondy, Peter Cundall · International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences · 2004 · 4.9K citations

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Practical estimates of rock mass strength

E. Hoek, E.T. Brown · International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences · 1997 · 3.3K citations

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Validity of Cubic Law for fluid flow in a deformable rock fracture

P.A. Witherspoon, J. S. Y. Wang, K. Iwai et al. · Water Resources Research · 1980 · 2.4K citations · Full text

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Mechanics Of Hydraulic Fracturing

M. King Hubbert, David G. Willis · Transactions of the AIME · 1957 · 2.1K citations

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  1. JZ
    Jian Zhao

    Monash University, Australia

    64 publications · 6K citations

    42

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  2. DE
    Derek Elsworth

    Pennsylvania State University, United States

    71 publications · 4.3K citations

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  3. PR
    P.G. Ranjith

    Monash University, Australia

    79 publications · 4.9K citations

    39

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  4. HX
    Heping Xie

    Sichuan University, China

    60 publications · 4.2K citations

    37

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  5. CT
    Chun’an Tang

    Dalian University of Technology, China

    70 publications · 4.1K citations

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  1. China University of Mining and Technology

    Xuzhou, China

    97 h-index

    3.6K publications

    157K citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    79 h-index

    944 publications

    52.3K citations

  3. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    74 h-index

    590 publications

    35.5K citations

  4. Central South University

    Changsha, China

    70 h-index

    1.3K publications

    65K citations

  5. Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics

    Wuhan, China

    70 h-index

    822 publications

    42K citations

  6. China University of Petroleum, Beijing

    Beijing, China

    69 h-index

    1.3K publications

    62.3K citations

  7. Imperial College London

    London, United Kingdom

    67 h-index

    299 publications

    28.7K citations

  8. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    Berkeley, United States

    66 h-index

    486 publications

    47K citations

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  2. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 380 publications · 51.8K citations

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  3. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering

    679 publications · 42.6K citations

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  5. Engineering Fracture Mechanics

    395 publications · 22.5K citations

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