Physical review letters
From Distributed Damage to Strain Localization in Rocks during Brittle Creep.
Lintong Jiang, Shihuai Zhang, Shunchuan Wu
Published: 202510.1103/rtvp-wnfd
Abstract
The transition from distributed damage to strain localization in rocks during brittle creep remains mechanistically unclear. Through uniaxial creep experiments on polystyrene plates with a preexisting closed crack, we demonstrate that low-stress cree…
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