TECHNICAL CONCEPT FOR ROCK MECHANICS TESTS, CLIMAX GRANITE, NTS

摘要

If we are to believe our predictions of the thermomechanical behavior of the material surrounding a nuclear waste repository in granite, we must test the computational methods used in making the predictions. If thermal loadings appropriate to a real repository are used, thermally-induced dis¬placements and strains are quite small, and available geotechnical instru¬mentation is only marginally able to measure these effects to the accuracy desired to make thorough tests of the predictions. We outline a three-step program to address these issues.