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Characterization of Fracture Process in Sandstone: A Linear Correspondence Between Acoustic Emission Energy Density and Opening Displacement Gradient

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Abbreviations

H :

Specimen height

L :

Specimen length

B :

Specimen thickness

a :

Notch length

ρ AE :

The AE energy density

E :

The AE energy of an individual event

n :

The total number of AE events

D :

Representative area

u :

Opening displacement

g xx :

Opening displacement gradient

ε xx :

Opening displacement strain

d :

The spacing of subset centers

x :

Horizontal coordinate

y :

Vertical coordinate

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Acknowledgements

The authors sincerely thank the advice from Professor Joseph F. Labuz at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and indeed, the financial supports from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51304225, 51774305), the Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources and Prospecting, China University of Petroleum, Beijing (No. PRP/open-1402).

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    Qing Lin & Yunhu Lu

  2. Department of Engineering Mechanics, College of Petroleum Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, 102249, China

    Qing Lin, Siqi Wang & Bin Wan

  3. Department of Oil and Gas Well Engineering, College of Petroleum Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, 102249, China

    Yunhu Lu

  4. Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011, USA

    Yan Wang

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Lin, Q., Wang, S., Wan, B. et al. Characterization of Fracture Process in Sandstone: A Linear Correspondence Between Acoustic Emission Energy Density and Opening Displacement Gradient. Rock Mech Rock Eng 53, 975–981 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-019-01949-8

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