Research Article
Determining Tensile Strength of Rock by the Direct Tensile, Brazilian Splitting, and Three-Point Bending Methods: A Comparative Study
Table 3
Results of comparative analysis with different methods.
| Lithology | Brazilian splitting | Three-point bending | Intensity ratio | Modulus ratio | Intensity ratio | Modulus ratio |
| Granite | 1.135 | 0.619 | 2.745 | 0.850 | Marble | 1.171 | 0.561 | 1.620 | 0.838 | Diabase | 1.166 | 0.697 | 1.869 | 0.896 |
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