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LSU Master's Theses

2007

Friction

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Evaluation Of Shear Strength Parameters Of Shale And Siltstone Using Single Point Cutter Tests, Mahendra Shewalla Jan 2007

Evaluation Of Shear Strength Parameters Of Shale And Siltstone Using Single Point Cutter Tests, Mahendra Shewalla

LSU Master's Theses

Detournay and Tan (2002) performed experiments with a rock cutting device to measure the load required to fail the rock under confining stress. They proposed models describing the correlation between the specific energy and confining stress for shear dilatant rocks as a function of unconfined specific energy at failure, cutter rake angle (θ), internal friction angle (φ) of the rock and an assumed interface friction angle (ψ) between the rock and the cutter. The aim of this research is to evaluate the model proposed by Detournay and Tan (2002), which states that specific energy varies linearly with bore hole pressure …