TY - GEN
T1 - A new test for rock strength
T2 - 4th North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, NARMS 2000
AU - Chau, K. T.
AU - Wei, X. X.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2000 Balkema, Rotterdam.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - This paper proposes a new test for rock strength- the double-punch test, which was introduced by Chen (1970) for the determination of the indirect tensile strength of concrete. In this test, a circular cylindrical specimen of diameter 2 b and length 2h is subjected to two rigid circular punches of diameter 2a (< 2 b) at the top and bottom of the specimen. The testing machine for uniaxial compressive strength (UCS) can be used, and failure load is much lower than that for UCS. The normally observed fracture surfaces involve more than one fractures through the axis of symmetry. A new elastic theory for the test proposed recently by Wei and Chau (1999) will be discussed and compared to experimental results. The tensile strength interpreted from the present analysis is found comparable to the formula proposed by Bortolotti (1988) for a/b > 0.2 and agrees well with experimental data, and thus provides an improvement over Chen's (1970) original formula.
AB - This paper proposes a new test for rock strength- the double-punch test, which was introduced by Chen (1970) for the determination of the indirect tensile strength of concrete. In this test, a circular cylindrical specimen of diameter 2 b and length 2h is subjected to two rigid circular punches of diameter 2a (< 2 b) at the top and bottom of the specimen. The testing machine for uniaxial compressive strength (UCS) can be used, and failure load is much lower than that for UCS. The normally observed fracture surfaces involve more than one fractures through the axis of symmetry. A new elastic theory for the test proposed recently by Wei and Chau (1999) will be discussed and compared to experimental results. The tensile strength interpreted from the present analysis is found comparable to the formula proposed by Bortolotti (1988) for a/b > 0.2 and agrees well with experimental data, and thus provides an improvement over Chen's (1970) original formula.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85054560856
SN - 9058091554
SN - 9789058091550
T3 - 4th North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, NARMS 2000
SP - 1307
EP - 1313
BT - 4th North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, NARMS 2000
PB - American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA)
Y2 - 31 July 2000 through 3 August 2000
ER -