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Fracture toughness measurements under static loading conditions have been carried out in Barre and Lac du Bonnet granites. An advanced AE technique has been adopted to monitor real-time crack initiation and propagation around the principal crack in these tests to understand the processes of brittle failure under tension and related characteristics of the resulting fracture process zone. The anisotropy of Mode I fracture toughness has been investigated along specific directions. Microcrack density and orientation analysis from thin section studies have shown these characteristics to be the primary cause of the observed variation in fracture toughness, which is seen to vary between 1.14 MPa.(m)1/2 and 1.89 MPa.(m)1/2 in Barre granite. The latter value represents the case in which the crack is propagated at right angles to the main set of microcracks. The creation of a significant fracture process zone surrounding the propagating main crack has been confirmed. Real-time imaging of the fracture process and formation of fracture process zone by AE techniques yielded results in very good agreement with those obtained by direct optical analysis.
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Nasseri, M.H.B., Mohanty, B., Young, R.P. (2006). Fracture Toughness Measurements and Acoustic Emission Activity in Brittle Rocks. In: Dresen, G., Zang, A., Stephansson, O. (eds) Rock Damage and Fluid Transport, Part I. Pageoph Topical Volumes. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-7643-7712-7_2
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