Rock Drilling with impregnated diamond microbits

A fully instrumented laboratory drilling rig was designed and used to drill a variety of rock types with impregnated diamond microbits. The rocks, selected to represent a wide range of properties, were characterised by optical petrography and by the measurement of uniaxial compressive strength and r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Miller, Duncan Edmund
Other Authors: Ball, Anthony
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4962