Predicting the uniaxial compressive and tensile strengths of gypsum rock by point load testing

Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 265-273

  Heidari, M ^a   Khanlari, G R ^a   Kaveh, Mehdi Torabi ^a   Kargarian, S ^a  

^a BU ALI SINA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Brazilian tensile strength; Gypsum rock; Point load strength index; Uniaxial compressive strength

Indexed keywords

CORE DRILL; CYLINDRICAL SPECIMENS; EMPIRICAL EQUATIONS; GYPSUM ROCK; LENGTH TO DIAMETER RATIO; POINT LOAD; POINT LOAD TESTS; SATURATED CONDITIONS; STRENGTH INDEXES; UNIAXIAL COMPRESSIVE; UNIAXIAL COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH;

BARS (METAL); COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CORE DRILLING; GYPSUM; TENSILE STRENGTH;

ROCKS;

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; DRILLING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GYPSUM; LOADING TEST; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 84861573004     PISSN: 07232632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00603-011-0196-8     Document Type: Article

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