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L. Richards
Rock Engineering Consultant, Canterbury, New Zealand
Subject: Rock material and rock mass property testing (laboratory and in situ)
Keywords: lab testing, rock failure, rock properties
1 INTRODUCTION
The original Hoek-Brown failure criterion (Hoek & Brown
1980) was defined in terms of major and minor total stresses
as follows:
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