摘要: The Brazilian, or indirect tensile, test, in which a disk is loaded diametral plane by forces applied at opposite ends of diameter, extended jacketing the specimen and applying an additional confining pressure. In this way failure may be studied over range conditions least principal stress varies from tensile to compressive. fracture always extension plane, even if all stresses are analysis based on elastic strain theory. Experiments were made three rock types, they suggest that value intermediate affects for failure. This effect same order magnitude as shown experiments hollow cylinders with axial loading external