Uniaxial compression test series on Bullfrog Tuff

Technical Report · Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1982

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/59458· OSTI ID:59458

Price, R H; Jones, A K; Nimick, K G

Nineteen uniaxial compressive experiments were performed on samples of the Bullfrog Member of the Crater Flat Tuff, obtained from drillhole USW-G1 at Yucca Mountain on the Nevada Test Site. The water saturated samples were deformed at a nominal strain rate of 10{sup -5} sec{sup -1}, atmospheric pressure and room temperature. Resultant unconfined compressive strengths, axial strains to failure, Young`s moduli and Poisson`s ratios ranged from 4.63 to 153. MPa, .0028 to .0058, 2.03 to 28.9 GPa and .08 to .16, respectively.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 59458
• Report Number(s): SAND-82-0481; ON: DE82015665; TRN: 82:014205
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: Apr 1982
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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