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Thermal Cycling Effects on Micro-property Variation of Granite by a Spatial Micro-observation

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This study was funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant numbers 51778021 and 11572282).

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Fan, L.F., Gao, J.W. & Du, X.L. Thermal Cycling Effects on Micro-property Variation of Granite by a Spatial Micro-observation. Rock Mech Rock Eng 53, 2921–2928 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-020-02065-8

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