Damage initiation in brittle and ductile materials as revealed from a fractoluminescence study by Alexandre Chmel, Igor’ Shcherbakov

“…A set of heterogeneous and homogeneous materials differing in their brittle and ductile characteristics (granite, marble, silica ceramics, silicon carbide, organic glass) were subjected to impact damaging by a falling weight. …”
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Statistical Peculiar Features of Surface Cracking on Flat Clay Samples of Plastic Moulding when Heated by Heat Flow by I. K. Ivanovsky

“…Results of 240 time determinations pertaining to investigation of surface cracking initiation on flat samples of moulding mass (80% of the Lukoml clay + 20% of granite screenings) of various thickness (1 ...4 cm) while being heated with intensive heat flow (~ 1 W/cm2) are given and analyzed in the paper.It has been shown that under such heating conditions thickness of a sample practically does not make any effect on cracking intensity. …”
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Performance Evaluation of Stone Mastic Asphalt and Hot Mix Asphalt Mixtures Containing Recycled Concrete Aggregate by Mohammad Saeed Pourtahmasb, Mohamed Rehan Karim

“…Three categories of RCA in various percentages were mixed with virgin granite aggregates to produce SMA and HMA specimens. …”
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Comparative Study on the Test Method for Tensile Elastic Modulus of Rock Materials by Yan Zhang, Dawei Yu

“…To distinguish which indirect test methodology, including three-points bending test and Brazilian disc test, is more suitable to measure the tensile elastic modulus Et of rock materials, a series of uniaxial compressive test (UCT), direct tensile test (DTT), three-points bending test, and Brazilian disc test are performed for three typical types of rock: marble, granite, and sandstone. Comparative investigation on the reliability of measurement results of tensile elastic modulus Et is systematically conducted. …”
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ABOUT THE COMPOSITION AND NEUTRON ACTIVATION RADIOGRAPHY OF TOPAZ CRYSTALS FROM AN AUTHOR’S COLLECTION by V.I. Popova, V.A. Popov, M.A. Rassomakhin

“…The composition of zoned, zoned-sectorial or relatively homogeneous small topaz crystals from granite pegmatites of Ukraine (Volyn) and Russia (Ilmeny State Reserve in South Urals, Orlovskoe and Sherlovaya Gora deposits in Transbaikalia, and Zabytoe deposit in Primorye) is characterized using scanning electron microscope with energy-dispersive spectrometer and partly by laser mass spectroscopy. …”
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A Laboratory‐Validated, Graph‐Based Flow and Transport Model for Naturally Fractured Media by Collin R. Sutton, Christopher Zahasky

“…Here, we use pulse‐tracer experiments with a conservative radiotracer ([18F]‐fludeoxyglucose) spanning multiple flow rates with simultaneous positron emission tomography imaging to characterize transport in a 5.08 cm fractured Sierra granite core. A graph‐based, laboratory‐validated flow and transport model is successfully demonstrated to describe the conservative solute transport in the natural fracture. …”
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Experimental Study on the Effect of Offset Notch on Fracture Properties of Rock under Three-Point Bending Beam by Qifeng Guo, Xinghui Wu, Meifeng Cai, Shengjun Miao

“…To investigate the effects of offset notch on the fracture properties of rock beam under bending load, granite beam specimens with “one single offset notch” and “central and offset double notches” are made. …”
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Evaluation of the Functionality of Mineral-Resin Pavement by Łukasz Bednarek, Nadzeya Fialkouskaya

“…Tests conducted with granite aggregate proved to be more resistant to cyclically changing temperatures, even in the presence of salt. …”
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Effects of Focus Geometry on the Hard Rock-Cutting Performance of an Abrasive Waterjet by Yohan Cha, Tae-Min Oh, Gye-Chun Cho

“…Experiments were conducted using granite specimens to test the AFR under different focus geometry conditions such as diameter and length. …”
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Modelling and Laboratory Studies on the Adhesion Fatigue Performance for Thin-Film Asphalt and Aggregate System by Dongsheng Wang, Junyan Yi, Decheng Feng

“…Basalt, which is regarded as hydrophobic aggregates with low silica content, has better adhesion performance to asphalt binder when compared with granite. The effects of aging on the adhesion fatigue performance are different for PG64-22 and rubber asphalt. …”
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The Influence of Loading Rate on Direct and Indirect Tensile Strengths: Laboratory and Numerical Methods by Jie Liu, Gangyuan Jiang, Taoying Liu, Qiao Liang

“…To investigate different responses of direct and indirect tensile strengths to loading rate, direct and indirect tension tests were performed on sandstone, rust stone, and granite specimens. Typical load curves indicate that a peak tensile stress frequently appears before the second peak stress, used to calculate the tensile strength in indirect tension tests. …”
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Scale Dependence of Waviness and Unevenness of Natural Rock Joints through Fractal Analysis by Yingchun Li, Shengyue Sun, Hongwei Yang

“…The surfaces of three natural joints of granite with the same dimension of 1000 mm×1000 mm are digitised using a 3D laser scanner at three different measurement resolutions. …”
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Study on Energy Consumption Characteristics of Different Tools under Impact Load by Fujun Zhao, Haifan Wang, Zhouyuan Ye, Yonghong Liu, Yu Li

“…Impact crushing tests were conducted on granite samples with an identical impact velocity by using the variable section Split Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB) test device. …”
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Utilization of Recycled Concrete Aggregates in Stone Mastic Asphalt Mixtures by Mohammad Saeed Pourtahmasb, Mohamed Rehan Karim

“…Test results revealed that the performance of SMA mixtures is affected by RCA due to higher porosity and absorption of RCA in comparison with virgin granite aggregates. However, the engineering properties of SMA mixtures containing a particular amount of RCA showed the acceptable trends and could satisfy the standard requirements. …”
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Particle Flow Analysis of Acoustic Emission Features of Rock under Rock Burst Stress Path by Yalei Wang, Jinming Xu

“…Taking Lalin railway tunnel granite as an example, a three-dimensional particle flow numerical model of rock was established based on the PFC (particle flow code). …”
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The 2017-2023 excavation campaigns in the Middle Bronze Age nuraghe and settlement of Tanca Manna (Nuoro) by Maurizio Cattani, Rossana Conti, Florencia Debandi, Demis Murgia

“…The stratification of the archaeological deposits revealed numerous ceramic fragments, datable to the early phases of the Middle Bronze Age (MBA1 and MBA2), further corroborating the coexistence of a monumental structure, likely a proto-nuraghe, situated on the granite outcrop next to the huts. This proto-nuraghe was later surmounted by the single-tower nuraghe. …”
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Effect of aggregate type on moisture susceptibility of modified cold recycled mix asphalt: evaluation by mechanical tests and Surface Free Energy method by Hassan Latifi, Nahid Amini

“…Also, effect of using granite, limestone and recycled asphalt pavement (RAP) aggregates was evaluated. …”
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Dynamic Mechanical Analysis of Banyan/Ramie Fibers Reinforced with Nanoparticle Hybrid Polymer Composite by T. Raja, V. Mohanavel, M. Ravichandran, S. Suresh Kumar, Munirah D. Albaqami, Reham Ghazi Alotabi, Mohanraj Murugesan

“…In this work, the banyan mat and ramie mat are used as reinforcement phase and the epoxy polymer is used as matrix material, and granite nanoparticles are used as filler for making composite laminates. …”
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Use-Wear traces on copper ore processing tools from Late Bronze sites of the Trans-Urals(use wear analysis) by Kostomarova Yulia V., Bukacheva Anastasia O., Molchanov Ivan V.

“…Pebbles and slabs from different types of stone (diorite, flint, silicite, porphyrite, quartzite, granite, quartz sandstone) were used as tools. As a result, use-wear traces on experimental tools were obtained, described in detail and analyzed. …”
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Effect of Seismic Frequency Spectra on Surrounding Rock Damage Evolution of Large Underground Caverns by Yumin Zhang, Zeqi Zhu, Rongchao Xu, Zhiquan Huang

“…To explore the distribution and evolution of the surrounding rock of underground caverns of hydropower stations, the dynamic compression tests for granite sample were carried out and the dynamic constitutive relation suitable to computer programming was established in terms of strain-based static elastic-plastic damage constitutive relation. …”
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