The Uniaxial Creep Characteristics of Red Sandstone under Dry-Wet Cycles

Table 5

Statistics of the creep parameters of the red sandstone under the failure load level.

Red sandstone’s state	Failure load (kN)	Duration of the damage phase (h)	Instantaneous strain rate (h^−1)	Average creep strain rate (10^−2 ∗ h^−1)
Dry state	35	11.8	0.936	0.308
Wet state	35	11.2	0.744	0.882
3 dry-wet cycles	30	9.8	3.372	3.249
6 dry-wet cycles	25	9.1	1.452	2.788
9 dry-wet cycles	25	7.9	1.572	4.173