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Establishing Empirical Relationships for the Effects of Water Content on the Mechanical Behavior of Gosford Sandstone

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Abbreviations

UCS:

Uniaxial compressive strength

E :

Young’s modulus

PLI:

Point-load index

TS:

Tensile strength

ω :

Water content

M ps :

Mass of rock sample under partially saturated condition

M d :

Mass of dry rock sample

r :

Radius of the sample

H :

Hydraulic diffusivity

k :

Permeability

B :

Skempton’s coefficient

K :

Bulk modulus

η :

Fluid viscosity

α :

Biot’s coefficient

P :

Maximum applied load measured during the point loading

D :

Distance between two pointers (conical platens) in diametral point-load test which is also the core sample diameter

L :

Length of the core sample

F :

Peak load measured during the Brazilian or indirect tensile test

T :

Thickness of the sample measured at the center

σ n :

Nominal strength such as UCS, E, PLI, TS

a, b and c :

Material constants in Hawkins and McConnell (1992) model

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    Hossein Masoumi, James Horne & Wendy Timms

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Masoumi, H., Horne, J. & Timms, W. Establishing Empirical Relationships for the Effects of Water Content on the Mechanical Behavior of Gosford Sandstone. Rock Mech Rock Eng 50, 2235–2242 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-017-1243-x

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