Rock Stress Terminology

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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


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Rock Stress Terminology

10.1007/978-1-4020-8444-7_4

Stress Field of the Earth’s Crust

978-1-4020-8443-0 (BookPrintISBN)    978-1-4020-8444-7 (BookElectronicISBN)   

2010-01-01

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