Combined effects of increasing temperature and confining pressure on the fracture toughness of clay bearing rocks

Suggested methods for determining the fracture toughness of rock

International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences & Geomechanics Abstracts · 1988 · 484 citations

Geotechnical Engineering, Rock Testing, Engineering +7

A simplified method for measuring plane strain fracture toughness

L. M. Barker · Engineering Fracture Mechanics · 1977 · 318 citations

Simplified Method, Engineering, Mechanical Engineering +7

Fracture toughness and subcritical crack growth during high-temperature tensile deformation of Westerly granite and Black gabbro

P. G. Meredith, Barry Kean Atkinson · Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors · 1985 · 255 citations

Materials Science, Engineering, Fracture Toughness +7

Effects of loading rate on rock fracture

Zong‐Xian Zhang, S.Q. Kou, Jian Yu et al. · International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences · 1999 · 248 citations

Geotechnical Engineering, Engineering, Mechanical Engineering +8

Fracture toughness determination of layered materials

Ken P. Chong, Mahinda Kuruppu, J. S. Kuszmaul · Engineering Fracture Mechanics · 1987 · 144 citations

Materials Science, Engineering, Strength Property +5