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Journal of Mining Sciences

2013 year, number 2

THEORETICAL GROUND FOR ORIGINATION OF NORMAL HORIZONTAL STRESSES IN ROCK MASSES

L. M. Vasil’ev, D. L. Vasil’ev
N.S. Polyakov Institute of Geotechnical Mechanics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, ul. Simferopol’skaya 2-a, Dnepropetrovsk, 490005 Ukraine
vdl_2007@mail.ru
Keywords: Normal horizontal stresses, ground pressure, rocks, shear resistance, contact friction coefficient, internal friction coefficient

Abstract

The authors show that normal horizontal stresses, either tensile or compressive, including exceeding vertical stresses, are initiated by contact friction between rock mass layers.