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Fracture in Westerly Granite under AE Feedback and Constant Strain Rate Loading: Nucleation, Quasi-static Propagation, and the Transition to Unstable Fracture Propagation

B. D. Thompson, R. P. Young, D. A. Lockner

Pure and Applied Geophysics · 2006 · 127 citations · 19 references

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A Simplex Method for Function Minimization

J. A. Nelder, R. Mead · The Computer Journal · 1965 · 28.9K citations

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The frequency-magnitude relation of microfracturing in rock and its relation to earthquakes

Christopher H. Scholz · Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America · 1968 · 1.8K citations

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Dilatancy in the fracture of crystalline rocks

W. F. Brace, Bartlett W. Paulding, Christopher H. Scholz · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1966 · 1.7K citations

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Quasi-static fault growth and shear fracture energy in granite

D. A. Lockner, J. D. Byerlee, V. S. Kuksenko et al. · Nature · 1991 · 1.1K citations

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Microfracturing and the inelastic deformation of rock in compression

Christopher H. Scholz · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1968 · 651 citations

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