Creep behavior of sandstone containing impact-induced ...
Characterization of the microcracks distribution. As shown in Fig. 4, in the sandstone sample without repetitive impact, there are already some initial microcracks, which should be attributed to the action of fault or blasting activity (Liu et al. 2020; Souley et al. 2001).Both the number and length of the microcracks increase with increasing of the number of repetitive impacts, suggesting the ...