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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

9. Laboratory Rock Tests

Authors : Jay Ameratunga, Nagaratnam Sivakugan, Braja M. Das

Published in: Correlations of Soil and Rock Properties in Geotechnical Engineering

Publisher: Springer India

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Abstract

The rock mass is made of intact rock and one or more sets of discontinuities. The intact rock specimens that are recovered from coring represent a relatively small volume of the rock mass and do not fully reflect the presence of discontinuities. The behaviour of the rock mass is governed mostly by the discontinuities than the properties of the intact rocks. Uniaxial compressive strength, Brazilian indirect tensile strength and the point load strength are some of the properties that reflect the strength of the intact rock. Typical values of these parameters and the interrelationships among them are discussed in this chapter.

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Metadata
Title
Laboratory Rock Tests
Authors
Jay Ameratunga
Nagaratnam Sivakugan
Braja M. Das
Copyright Year
2016
Publisher
Springer India
Book
Correlations of Soil and Rock Properties in Geotechnical Engineering

Print ISBN: 978-81-322-2627-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-81-322-2629-1

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2629-1_9