Fracture mechanics analysis of cracked discs of anisotropic rock using the boundary element method

Engineering & Materials Science

• Boundary element method 90%
• Fracture mechanics 81%
• Stress intensity factors 81%
• Crack initiation 80%
• Rocks 69%
• Shale 62%
• Fracture toughness 48%
• Crack propagation 46%
• Compaction 45%
• Anisotropic media 41%
• Formability 28%
• Tensile stress 27%
• Tensile strength 21%
• Computer simulation 14%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• boundary element method 100%
• fracture mechanics 96%
• crack 64%
• fracture toughness 61%
• shale 42%
• compression 42%
• Brazilian test 42%
• rock 39%
• loading test 35%
• anisotropic medium 35%
• tensile stress 31%
• crack propagation 30%
• tensile strength 27%
• analysis 21%
• calculation 14%
• simulation 11%
• test 10%