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Influence of physical properties of rock on rate of penetration of a water-jet drill

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  1. National Research Council of Canada. NRC Institute for Research in Construction
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Subjectwater-jet drills; rocks; water-jet drill; rocks; penetration; pressure; fracture; surface area; cracks; granite; sandstone; quartz diorite; norite; roche
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The rate of penetration of water-jet drill is shown to be related to the grain size of the rock and its derived function, to the surface area of grain boundaries per unit volume, and also to the volume of cracks per unit volume of rock.
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  • Canadian Mineralogy 24, no. 2 (1986): 323–328.
LanguageEnglish
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IdentifierIRC-P-1388
NRC numberNRCC 26053
NRC-IRC-1560
NPARC number20378766
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