Defining Parameters of Shear Resistance on Oil Shale Samples

Abstract

The research environment is a transversely isotropic model, which is characterized with constant physical mechanical properties in different directions in the plane of isotropy, and a different properties in the direction perpendicular to the plane of isotropy. For defining parameters of shear resistance of shale (transversely isotropic model) in three mutually perpendicular directions, it is necessary to prepare 9 (nine) samples, size (8x8x8) [c, using the Mor-Coulomb's law, where the destruction of rock happens in plane of the least resistance to shear. This paper presents results got from tests performed in geomechanical laboratory.