Mechanism of brittle fracture of rock

VI. The phenomena of rupture and flow in solids

Alan Arnold Griffith · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Containing Papers of a Mathematical or Physical Character · 1921 · 10.6K citations · Full text

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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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Fracture and strength of solids

E. Orowan · Reports on Progress in Physics · 1949 · 1.2K citations

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Brittle fracture propagation in rock under compression

E. Hoek, Z.T. Bieniawski · International Journal of Fracture · 1965 · 674 citations

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The effect of cracks on the uniaxial elastic compression of rocks

J. B. Walsh · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1965 · 657 citations

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