Fracture and flow of rocks under high triaxial compression

A new triaxial compression technique has made possible the study of laws of the fracture and flow of rocks under general triaxial stress states, in which all three principal stresses are different. By this new method, the effects of the stress states on fracture and yielding of rocks were experimentally studied. Fracture and flow properties of rocks are markedly affected not only by the least compression σ3, but also by the intermediate...