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Strength tests were made on three types of rock, both 'air-dry' and water-saturated, at temperatures from +25 to -195C, and stress/strain tests were made down to -60C. Strength of air-dry specimens increased with decreasing temperature at an average rate of approximately .002/C and quasi-elastic moduli increased at comparable rates. Static fatigue mechanisms in air-dry rock were apparently influenced by temperature-modification of adsorbed water. Strength of water-saturated specimens increased dramatically as pore water froze, and continued to increase down to -120C, where compressive and tensile strengths were greater than room temperature values by factors of 5, 4 and 2 for sandstone, limestone and granite respectively. Compressive stress/strain curves for saturated rocks became steeper after freezing, and initial tangent moduli for saturated high porosity rocks increased by well over an order of magnitude. (Author)
Strength tests were made on three types of rock, both 'air-dry' and water-saturated, at temperatures from +25 to -195C, and stress/strain tests were made down to -60C. Strength of air-dry specimens increased with decreasing temperature at an average rate of approximately .002/C and quasi-elastic moduli increased at comparable rates. Static fatigue mechanisms in air-dry rock were apparently influenced by temperature-modification of adsorbed water. Strength of water-saturated specimens increased dramatically as pore water froze, and continued to increase down to -120C, where compressive and tensile strengths were greater than room temperature values by factors of 5, 4 and 2 for sandstone, limestone and granite respectively. Compressive stress/strain curves for saturated rocks became steeper after freezing, and initial tangent moduli for saturated high porosity rocks increased by well over an order of magnitude. (Author)
Strength and Deformability of Rocks at Low Temperatures
M. Mellor (author)
1971
82 pages
Report
No indication
English
Geology & Geophysics , Rock(Geology) , Compressive properties , Low-temperature research , Shear stresses , Elasticity , Sandstone , Limestone , Granite , Tensile properties , Strain(Mechanics) , Test methods , Temperature , Water , Porosity , Fatigue(Mechanics) , Rock mechanics , Compressive strength , Frozen rocks
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