Long term laboratory strength tests in hard rock

10th ISRM Congress

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1179-1184

  Szczepanik, Z ^a   Milne, D ^a   Kostakis, K ^b   Eberhardt, E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CREEP; GRANITE; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; ROCK MECHANICS; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

BRITTLE MICROFRACTURE; CONSTANT LOADING; HARD ROCKS; LABORATORY STRENGTH; LONG-TERM LOADINGS; UNDERGROUND RESEARCH LABORATORIES; UNI-AXIAL COMPRESSION; UNIAXIAL COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH;

ACOUSTIC EMISSION TESTING;

EID: 84943317899     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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