Brittleness of rock and stability assess
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Vahid Hajiabdolmajid; Peter Kaiser
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Article
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2003
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Brittleness is a characteristic of many geomaterials in which the pre-existing heterogeneities among the mechanical and geometrical properties of the constituent materials, (e.g. grains cementing materials and voids) and loading conditions promote non-homogeneous distribution of the stresses inside