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NMR, MRI and AE Statistical Study of Damage due to a Low Number of Wetting–Drying Cycles in Sandstone from the Three Gorges Reservoir Area

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Abbreviations

n :

Number of wetting–drying cycles

T 2 :

Spin–spin relaxation time of nuclear magnetic resonance

ϕ :

Porosity of sandstone

E :

Young’s modulus

PDF:

Probability distribution function

P(E):

Probability distribution function of absolute acoustic emission energy

E min :

Minimum value of absolute acoustic emission energy

ν :

Poisson’s ratio

σ :

Normal stress

ε :

Strain

UCS:

Uniaxial compressive strength

Ψ :

Slope of probability distribution function of absolute acoustic emission energy, or the exponent in the power-law of P(E) ~ E−Ψ

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Science and Technology Major Project (2016ZX05045001-005) and the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFC0804202). We appreciate the help from Professor Antoni Planes (Universitat de Barcelona) in the AE statistical analysis section.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Coal Mine Disaster Dynamics and Control, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, People’s Republic of China

    Kainan Xie, Deyi Jiang, Zhongguang Sun, Jie Chen & Xiang Jiang

  2. China Coal Technology and Engineering Group Chongqing Research Institute, Chongqing, 400039, People’s Republic of China

    Zhongguang Sun

  3. College of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400044, People’s Republic of China

    Wengang Zhang & Xiang Jiang

  4. National Joint Engineering Research Centre for Prevention and Control of Environmental Geological Hazards in the Three Gorges Reservoir area, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400045, People’s Republic of China

    Wengang Zhang & Xiang Jiang

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Xie, K., Jiang, D., Sun, Z. et al. NMR, MRI and AE Statistical Study of Damage due to a Low Number of Wetting–Drying Cycles in Sandstone from the Three Gorges Reservoir Area. Rock Mech Rock Eng 51, 3625–3634 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-018-1562-6

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