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Use of a rotary shear box for testing the shear strength of rock joints

Shuang Xu M. H. de Freitas

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Keywords: friction ; laboratory equipment ; rock mechanics ; shear strength ; shear tests ; torsion ... Show All

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Xu et al. (1988) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aa420215b183923dd1ab541 https://doi.org/10.1680/geot.1988.38.2.301

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