... Abstract Majority of experimental strength and deformational characteristics of rocks are obtained from uniaxial tests, mainly from compression tests, or through the particular triaxial experiments commonly known as Conventional Triaxial Compression (CTC). The procedure of CTC test usually...

...-pressure effects using a special rock mechanic testing machine. It is shown that when the sample was ruptured by uniaxial compression, the connective cracks instantaneously occurred accompanied by a swarm of AE activities, which suddenly decrease the fluid pore pressure. This change can be able to drive...