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Crack Nucleation During Creep Fracture

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Some stress drops appear during the process of deformation under triaxial compressive tests in intact brittle rocks in Fig. 6.1, and each stress drop is associated with an individual shear band caused by strain localization from the accumulation and nucleation of distributed microcracks.

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Li, X., Shao, Z., Qi, C. (2024). Crack Nucleation During Creep Fracture. In: Static Creep Micro-Macro Fracture Mechanics of Brittle Solids. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8203-5_6

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