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Estimation of rock resistance to hydraulic fracturing from data of laboratory investigations

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Conditions of carrying out laboratory investigations are examined, and calculated formulas are presented for determination of rock resistance to hydraulic fracturing.

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Institute of Mining, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia. Translated from Fiziko-Tekhnicheskie Problemy Razrabotki Poleznykh Iskopaemykh, No. 3, pp. 17–23, May–June, 2000.

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Serdyukov, S.V. Estimation of rock resistance to hydraulic fracturing from data of laboratory investigations. J Min Sci 36, 209–214 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02562521

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