M.Sc. Tezi Görüntüleme

      A strong laboratory database of engineering properties of rocks is very useful for geotechnical engineering applications. In the most of engineering geological and rock engineering applications, uniaxial compressive strength (UCS) of rocks is the most widely used design test. However, in some cases it can be quite difficult, time consuming and expensive to prepare specimens and to conduct this test. As an alternative, it can be used empirical or analytical relationships among various physical and mechanical strength properties of materials to estimate the required engineering properties of rocks. For these reasons, simple test methods such as porosity and ultrasonic sonic velocity test are used widely. These simple tests have been world widely used to estimate the UCS of rocks, because of their rapidity, simplicity, portability, low cost, non-destructiveness and easiness in both specimen preparation and test conduction.