• A benchmarking exercise involving 24 laboratories was organized to measure the permeability of the Grimsel granodiorite • The influence of pore fluid, sample size, pressure sensitivity and methods (steady-state, transient pulse, oscillation) are discussed • The average permeability measured with gas is larger than that measured with liquid
S U M M A R YUniaxial and triaxial compression experiments were performed on oolitic iron ores to investigate damage processes. Most of these experiments included four indirect measurements of damage evolution, that is, P-wave velocity and maximum amplitude received during pulse transmission experiments, elastic properties (apparent Young´s modulus and apparent Poisson´s ratio) and acoustic emission (AE) monitoring. The mechanical behaviour deduced from strain measurements is dilatant for some samples and non-dilatant for the other samples. However, variations in elastic properties indicate damage processes for all samples. AE source mechanism analysis shows two different microscopic damage processes: (1) for dilatant rock, the development of axial extensive microcracks as well as their interaction and coalescence lead to the formation of shear macroscopic discontinuities; (2) for non-dilatant oolitic iron ore, both compressive and shear micromechanisms take place and interact with macroscopic fractures. A particular consistency between the four types of measurements employed was observed.
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