Testing for Young’s Modulus – A Technician’s Perspective

摘要

The testing of rock for Uniaxial Compressive Strength, Young’s Modulus, and Poisson’s Ratio, is arnsimple and straight forward procedure. The results are generally reliable when the samples beingrntested are free from imperfection which is seldom the case. The purpose of this paper is to make thernreader aware of some of the conditions which could affect the results, and provide recommendationsrnto the engineers to pay close attention to potential problems in the test results.