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Inspec keywords: seismology; petroleum industry; Poisson ratio; elasticity; rocks; brittleness; oil drilling; gas industry; Young's modulus
Subjects: Fracture mechanics and hardness (mechanical engineering); Mining, oil drilling and natural gas industries; Elasticity (mechanical engineering)