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It has long been accepted that dilatancy is a phenomenon that can be treated as an important precursor of the brittle failure of rocks. Dilatancy is understood as an inelastic increase in volume during deformation under applied differential stress and is interpreted as being due to microcracking within the rock with a concomitant increase in void space. Dilatancy in rocks is of considerable practical...
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