crossrefMinerals2026-01-27
Modeling of Minimum Fracture Energy Distribution Through Advanced Characterization and Machine Learning Techniques
Sebastián Samur, Pia Lois-Morales, Gonzalo Díaz
This study proposes a data-driven framework to predict the rock mass-specific fracture energy distributions using microstructural descriptors extracted from SEM-EDS automated characterization images. Ore textures were encoded through unsupervised k-means clustering to identify si…