Rock salt - The mechanical properties of the host rock material for a radioactive waste repository

Engineering Geology

Volumn 59, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 271-291

  Hunsche, Udo ^a   Hampel, Andreas ^b  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^b Consultant ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Creep; Deformation mechanisms; Dilatancy; Failure; Permeability; Salt

Indexed keywords

CREEP; DEFORMATION; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; ROCKS; SALT DEPOSITS; STRESSES; VISCOPLASTICITY;

DILATANCY; ROCK SALT;

GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES;

CREEP; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTY; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; ROCK SALT;

EID: 0033045624     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0013-7952(99)00011-3     Document Type: Article

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