1. Rock Damage and Fluid Transport, Part I

   • Georg Dresen
   • Ove Stephansson
   • Arno Zang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 915 - 916

2. Fracture Toughness Measurements and Acoustic Emission Activity in Brittle Rocks

   • M. H. B. Nasseri
   • B. Mohanty
   • R. P. Young

   OriginalPaper Pages: 917 - 945

3. Quantifying Damage, Saturation and Anisotropy in Cracked Rocks by Inverting Elastic Wave Velocities

   • Alexandre Schubnel
   • Philip M. Benson
   • R. Paul Young

   OriginalPaper Pages: 947 - 973

4. Ultrasonic Velocities, Acoustic Emission Characteristics and Crack Damage of Basalt and Granite

   • Sergei Stanchits
   • Sergio Vinciguerra
   • Georg Dresen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 975 - 994

5. Fracture in Westerly Granite under AE Feedback and Constant Strain Rate Loading: Nucleation, Quasi-static Propagation, and the Transition to Unstable Fracture Propagation

   • Ben D. Thompson
   • R. Paul Young
   • David A. Lockner

   OriginalPaper 12 May 2006 Pages: 995 - 1019

6. Stress Sensitivity of Seismic and Electric Rock Properties of the Upper Continental Crust at the KTB

   • Axel Kaselow
   • Katharina Becker
   • Serge A. Shapiro

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1021 - 1029

7. Can Damage Mechanics Explain Temporal Scaling Laws in Brittle Fracture and Seismicity?

   • Donald L. Turcotte
   • Robert Shcherbakov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1031 - 1045

8. An Update on the Fracture Toughness Testing Methods Related to the Cracked Chevron-notched Brazilian Disk (CCNBD) Specimen

   • R. J. Fowell
   • C. Xu
   • P. A. Dowd

   OriginalPaper 12 May 2006 Pages: 1047 - 1057

9. Cohesive Crack Analysis of Toughness Increase Due to Confining Pressure

   • Kazushi Sato
   • Toshiyuki Hashida

   OriginalPaper 12 May 2006 Pages: 1059 - 1072

10. Fracture Toughness Evaluation Based on Tension-softening Model and its Application to Hydraulic Fracturing

    • Kazushi Sato
    • Toshiyuki Hashida

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1073 - 1089

11. A Method for Testing Dynamic Tensile Strength and Elastic Modulus of Rock Materials Using SHPB

    • Q. Z. Wang
    • W. Li
    • X. L. Song

    OriginalPaper 12 May 2006 Pages: 1091 - 1100

12. True Triaxial Stresses and the Brittle Fracture of Rock

    • Bezalel Haimson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1101 - 1130

13. Discrete Element Modeling of Stress and Strain Evolution Within and Outside a Depleting Reservoir

    • Haitham T. I. Alassi
    • Liming Li
    • Rune M. Holt

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1131 - 1151

14. Comparison of Numerical and Physical Models for Understanding Shear Fracture Processes

    • John Napier
    • Tobias Backers

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1153 - 1174

15. Upscaling: Effective Medium Theory, Numerical Methods and the Fractal Dream

    • Y. Guéguen
    • M. Le Ravalec
    • L. Ricard

    OriginalPaper 12 May 2006 Pages: 1175 - 1192