Rock Tensile Strength - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
It is commonly assumed that the tensile failure in rock will occur when the effective stress becomes tensile and equals or exceeds rock tensile strength, i.e., (3.77)σ ′ 3 = − T 0. where T0 is the uniaxial tensile strength; σ′3 is the minimum effective principal tensile stresses ( σ′3 is …