Experimental program to study scale effects on mechanical properties of large rock fractures

• The scale effect of natural and artifically induced rock fractures and replicas up to a 500 mm length are experimentally studied by direct shear tests in a testing program including a newly manufactured large shear testing equipment. The fractures are chatacterised pre-, syn-, and post-shear test. Combinations of different measurements provide a high-quality dataset enabling deeper understanding of, and constitutive model development for rock fractures used for safety assessment of deep geological respoitories for nuclear waste disposal.

Subject headings

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap -- Geologi (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences -- Geology (hsv//eng)

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