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Relief Methods

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Rock Stress and Its Measurement

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The main idea behind relief methods is to isolate (partially or wholly) a rock sample from the stress field in the surrounding rock mass and monitor its response (Merrill, 1964). This can be achieved by different methods such as overcoring or undercoring holes and cutting slots. The stresses are not related to applied pressures such as in hydraulic methods. Instead, the stresses are inferred from strains or displacements created by the relief process and measured on isolated rock samples, in boreholes or on the surrounding rock associated with the relief process. The successful interpretation of stress relief tests depends to a great extent on the ability (1) to establish a stress—strain (or displacement) relationship for the rock, (2) to be able to determine rock mass properties from tests on samples and (3) to have instrumentation sensitive enough to capture small strains or displacements. It is common practice to relate strains or displacements to the stress field components through equations derived from the theory of linear elasticity for isotropic media.

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