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  1. Department of Civil and Earth Resources Engineering, Kyoto University, C-Cluster, Katsura Campus of Kyoto University, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto, 615-8540, Japan

    Tsuyoshi Ishida

  2. Department of Civil, Environmental and Geo-Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

    Joseph F. Labuz

  3. THM University of Applied Sciences, Wiesenstraße 14, 35390, Giessen, Germany

    Gerd Manthei

  4. Department of Earth Sciences, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK

    Philip G. Meredith

  5. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto, 35 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A4, Canada

    M. H. B. Nasseri

  6. Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, 1646 Abiko, Abiko-city, Chiba-prefecture, 270-1194, Japan

    Koichi Shin

  7. Engineering Headquarters, OYO Corporation, 2-2-19 Daitakubo, Minami-ku, Saitama, 336-0015, Japan

    Tatsuya Yokoyama

  8. Section 2.6, Seismic Hazard and Stress Field, Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam, German Research Center for Geosciences-GFZ, Telegrafenberg, 14473, Potsdam, Germany

    Arno Zang

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Please send any written comments on this Suggested method to Prof. Resat Ulusay, President of the ISRM Commission on Testing Methods, Hacettepe University, Department of Geological Engineering, 06800 Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey. E-mail: resat@hacettepe.edu.tr

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Ishida, T., Labuz, J.F., Manthei, G. et al. ISRM Suggested Method for Laboratory Acoustic Emission Monitoring. Rock Mech Rock Eng 50, 665–674 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-016-1165-z

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