The microstructure and mineralogy of volcanic rocks is varied and complex, and their
mechanical behaviour is similarly varied and complex. This review summarises recent …

Many of the earliest laboratory studies of the brittle-ductile transition were on porous rocks,
with a focus on the evolution of failure mode from brittle faulting to cataclastic flow with …

Microtectonics deals with the interpretation of microstructures, small-scale deformation
structures in rocks that yield abundant information on the history and type of deformation and …

This monograph deals with the part of the field of experimental rock deformation that is
dominated by the phenomena of brittle fracture on one scale or another. Thus a distinction …

Triaxial compression experiments were conducted to investigate the inelastic and failure
behavior of six sandstones with porosities ranging from 15% to 35%. A broad range of …

Cracking and coalescence behavior in a rectangular rock-like specimen containing two
parallel (stepped and coplanar) pre-existing open flaws under uniaxial compression load …

Deformation bands are the most common strain localization feature found in deformed
porous sandstones and sediments, including Quaternary deposits, soft gravity slides and …

Increased interest in the two-and three-dimensional geometries and development of faults
and other types of fractures in rock has led to an increasingly bewildering terminology. Here …

The failure behavior of geological materials depends heavily on confining pressure and
strain rate. Under a relatively low confining pressure, these materials tend to fail by brittle …

Previous studies have shown that brittle strength of a rock is generally reduced in the
presence of water. However, for siliciclastic rocks, there is a paucity of data on the …