Mechanical Behavior and Damage Fracture Mechanism of Deep Rocks

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Strength and failure behavior of layered sandstone under uniaxial compression and Brazilian test.- Chapter 3. Strength, deformation and damage evolution behavior of red sandstone under triaxial compression.- Chapter 4. Mechanical damage characteristics of red sandstone under triaxial cyclic loading.- Chapter 5. Strength and deformation behavior of red sandstone under simple and complex loading paths.- Chapter 6. Mechanical and fracture behaviors of yellow sandstone under triaxial monotonic and cyclic loading.- Chapter 7. Triaxial strength and deformation failure behavior of coarse marble under six different loading paths.- Chapter 8. Deformation failure characteristics of crystalline marble under triaxial cyclic loading.- Chapter 9. Strength, deformation and fracture behavior of deeply-buried marble under different confining pressures.- Chapter 10. Mechanical behaviour and damage fracture mechanism of shale under Brazilian compression.- Chapter 11. Mechanical behavior and brittleness characteristics of Longmaxi formation shale under triaxial compression.- Chapter 12. Deformation and damage failure behaviour of mudstone under single-stage and multi-stage triaxial compression.- Chapter 13. Deformation, peak strength and crack damage behavior of hollow sandstone under conventional triaxial compression.- Chapter 14. Fracturing mechanism of compressed hollow-cylinder sandstone evaluated by X-ray micro-CT scanning.- Chapter 15. Fracture evolution mechanism of hollow sandstone by X-ray micro-CT observations and 3-D numerical simulations.- Chapter 16. Thermal damage and uniaxial mechanical behavior of granite after exposure to different high temperature treatments.- Chapter 17. Triaxial mechanical and permeability behavior of sandstone after exposure to different high temperature treatments.- Chapter 18. Effect of high temperature on the permeability evolution and failure response of granite under triaxial compression.