There is no internationally agreed terminology for words describing the state of stress in a rock mass (Hudson et al. 2003). In this video we present a new diagram of terminology for the classification of rock stress modified from a diagram published by Amadei and Stephansson (1997).
Earth Sciences
Friday, March 11, 2011
Rock Mechanics, Stress Measurements, Geophysics, Continuum Physics, Geology
Zang, Arno ; Stephansson, Ove
Rock Stress Terminology
Stress Field of the Earth’s Crust
978-1-4020-8443-0 (BookPrintISBN) 978-1-4020-8444-7 (BookElectronicISBN)
2010-01-01