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Rock Mechanics.pdf - Mining and Blasting

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Figure 4.10 Axial stress, a, <strong>and</strong><br />

radial strain, εr, vs. axial strain, εa,<br />

curves recorded in a uniaxial compression<br />

test on an oolitic limestone (after<br />

Elliott, 1982).<br />

Figure 4.11 Uniaxial stress–strain<br />

curves for six rocks (after Wawersik<br />

<strong>and</strong> Fairhurst, 1970).<br />

BEHAVIOUR OF ISOTROPIC ROCK MATERIAL IN UNIAXIAL COMPRESSION<br />

not reproduced in practical mining problems, this approach does permit progressive<br />

post-peak breakdown to be controlled <strong>and</strong> studied.<br />

Figure 4.11 shows the complete a–εa curves obtained by Wawersik <strong>and</strong> Fairhurst<br />

(1970) in a series of controlled uniaxial compression tests on a range of rock types.<br />

By halting tests on specimens of the same rock at different points on the curve<br />

<strong>and</strong> sectioning <strong>and</strong> polishing the specimens, Wawersik <strong>and</strong> Fairhurst were able to<br />

study the mechanisms of fracture occurring in the different rock types. They found<br />

that the post-peak behaviours of the rocks studied may be divided into two classes<br />

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