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This study present the result of conventional triaxial tests conducted on samples of Rothbach sandstone cored parallel, oblique (at 45 degrees) and perpendicular to the bedding at effective pressures ranging from 5 to 250 MPa. Mechanical and microstructural data were ased to determine the role of the bedding on mechanical strength and failure mode. We find that samples cored at 45 degrees to the bedding yield at intermediate level of differential stress between the ones for parallel and perpendicular samples at all effective pressures. Strain localization at high confining pressure (i.e., in the compactive domain) is observed in samples perpendicular and oblique to the bedding but not in samples cored parallel to the bedding. However, porosity reduction is comparable whether compactive shear bands, compaction bands or homogeneous cataclastic flow develop. Microstructural data suggest that (1) mechanical anisotropy is controlled by a preferred intergranular contact alignment parallel to the bedding and that (2) localization of compaction is controlled by bedding laminations and grain scale heterogeneity, which both prevent the development of well localized compaction features.
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Louis, L., Baud, P., Wong, TF. (2009). Microstructural Inhomogeneity and Mechanical Anisotropy Associated with Bedding in Rothbach Sandstone. In: Vinciguerra, S., Bernabé, Y. (eds) Rock Physics and Natural Hazards . Pageoph Topical Volumes. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0346-0122-1_15
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