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Rock Mechanics (Paperback, 1st Corrected ed. 1972. Corr. 2nd printing 0)
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Rock Mechanics (Paperback, 1st Corrected ed. 1972. Corr. 2nd printing 0)
Series: CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, 165
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Much of the research on fracture of rocks or rock-like materials
conducted over the past two decades may be considered as "academic
studies" of the general phenomenon of fracture. Yet, the
understanding of this phenomenon is fundamental if a material is
used in any engineering design, whether the aim is to prevent
failure of the structure or to promote it. Fracture theories
existing are generally empirical and derived from experimental
results of laboratory test with simple boundary conditions. Because
of the basic weakness of rock intension and because in general the
environmental stresses in rock mechanics are compressive most of
these theories consider fracture under compressive stress
conditions. The Coulomb-Navier-, the Mohr-, the Griffith and the
McClintock and Walsh criteria are typical examples and will be
considered in the following. In addition the tendency during the
past was in making accurate experiments under conditions of
homogeneous stresses. To obtain information about the fracture
behaviour with unequal principal stresses systems have to be used
which involve inhomogeneous stresses. This case is of particular
interest, since in practical rock mechanics we may expect
conditions of highly inhomogeneous stresses. However, a
consideration of such situations involve additional assumptions
like the applicability of the theory of elasticity for calculating
the stress field, which may be open to question. A distinction has
to be made between fracture initiation and fracture propagation,
since a detailed observation of the total fracture process in rock
was possible by means of "stiff" and "servo-controlled" loading
systems.
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