True Triaxial Testing of Rocks

A guide on how to perform laboratory tests and use existing data for solving practical rock engineering design and operating problems, this book present recent developments and a thorough review of milestones in the field. It address all aspects of true axial testing: true triaxial testing techniques and procedures; test results: strength, deformability, failure mode, permeability, acoustic emission, and elastic wave velocity; constitutive laws and failure criteria; and applications to geoengineering and geosciences.