Our concept of progressive rock slope failures is on the one hand embedded in aggregated
subcritical crack growth mechanisms and on the other sensitive to environmental conditions …

We study the average velocity of crack fronts during stable interfacial fracture experiments in
a heterogeneous quasibrittle material under constant loading rates and during long …

Background Observations in enhanced geothermal system (EGS) reservoirs of induced
seismicity and slow aseismic slip ruptures on related faults suggest a close link between the …

Observations of earthquake swarms and slow propagating ruptures on related faults suggest
a close relation between the two phenomena. Earthquakes are the signature of fast unstable …

The characterization and understanding of rock deformation processes due to fluid flow is a
challenging problem with numerous applications. The signature of this problem can be …

We present a subcritical fracture growth model, coupled with the elastic redistribution of the
acting mechanical stress along rugous rupture fronts. We show the ability of this model to …

We compare experimental observations of a slow interfacial crack propagation along an
heterogeneous interface to numerical simulations using a soft-clamped fiber bundle model …

We study theoretically the propagation of a crack front in mode I along an interface in a
disordered elastic medium, with a numerical model considering a thermally activated …

The energy budget during the propagation of tensile fractures typically includes two major
energy dissipation modes: the fracture energy to create a new interface and the radiated …

Fracturing processes in rocks is a complex phenomenon. Understanding the crack
nucleation, propagation, and mechanisms involved during rock fracture plays an important …