This Note presents a few selected results of an experimental testing program carried out at the ESRF in Grenoble, France. X-ray microtomography (with a spatial resolution of 14 μm) has been used to evaluate the onset and evolution of shear banding in a fine-grained ...

In this paper the behavior of a Vosges sandstone is studied, including quasi-homogeneous deformation, incipient strain localization and localised rupture.