1st Edition

Experimental Physics and Rock Mechanics

Edited By A.N. Stavrogin, B.G. Tarasov Copyright 2001
    378 Pages
    by CRC Press

    This volume summarizes the results of experimental investigations on the mechanical behaviour of rock. These experiments have been conducted over a 40 year period in the Laboratory for the Physics of Rocks at High Pressure.

    Pre-failure and post-failure strength and deformation properties of rocks under a wide range of stress states and loading paths; time-dependent properties of rocks; effect of deformation rate on the post-peak strength properties of rock and energy balance during dynamic uncontrolled fracture; mechanics of deformation and fracture of saturated rocks.

    Biography

    A.N. Stavrogin, B.G. Tarasov