Compressive strength and failure modes of lithophysae-rich Topopah Spring Tuff specimens and analog models containing cavities

Engineering Geology

Volumn 73, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 179-190

  Hudyma, Nick ^a   Avar, B Burçin ^b   Karakouzian, Moses ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b MACTEC Eng/Consulting Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Failure modes; Lithophysae; Plaster; Porosity; Tuff; Uniaxial compressive strength

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROSITY; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SPALLING; VOLCANOES;

MACROPOROSITY; ROCK MASSES;

GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES;

CAVITY; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; FAILURE MECHANISM; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; REPOSITORY; TUFF;

NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YUCCA MOUNTAIN;

EID: 1842779884     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2004.01.003     Document Type: Article

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