This study contains a detailed review of Griffith's theory of brittle, modified to account for the effects of crack closure in compressive stress fields.
Reference:
Hoek, E. 1965. Rock fracture under static stress conditions. Report no: ME/TH/17, CSIR: Pretoria, pp 1-237
Hoek, E. (1965). Rock fracture under static stress conditions (Report no;ME/TH/17). CSIR. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10204/7622
Hoek, E Rock fracture under static stress conditions. Report no;ME/TH/17. CSIR, 1965. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/7622
Hoek E. Rock fracture under static stress conditions. 1965 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10204/7622
