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What does FP stand for?

Fracture Plane


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Samples in periodicals archive:
It is not uncommon for the fracture planes to extend to the vertebral endplate, hence this phenomenon may account for the frequent reports of intradiscal cement.
In this case the continuity of the fracture planes was of special interest.
This style of carbonate hosted replacement deposit is commonly erratic in shape and thickness, as the mineralizing fluids follow pre-existing joint and fracture planes in addition to zones with subtle chemical differences in the host rock composition.
Sulfide mineralization has been observed throughout the entire core length with the mineralization both disseminated in the syenite host rock as well as along fracture planes.
1 m/s at room temperature, RCP no longer can be sustained, and the specimen instead fails by the extension of a craze across the fracture plane, and its subsequent rupture.
This area is characterized by fractured Dripping Springs quartzite with hematite, jarosite and goethite developed on the fracture planes.
[FIGURE 7 OMITTED] [FIGURE 8 OMITTED] Following the proposal of Karger-Kocsis (36), we corrected the EWF by subtracting the brittle area from the total fracture plane assuming that the brittle part of the fracture surface has very little contribution to the total work of fracture.
The experience shows that cracks may be deviated and/or multiplied at particle obstacles, and besides, they can be forced to change the fracture plane during crack propagation.

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