Unconfined compressive strength (UCS) data of tests conducted on salt samples from the Northwich Halite Member
The dataset contains unconfined compressive strength data of salt samples collected from the Northwich Halite Member at the Winsford Mine in Cheshire, UK. Each sample was unconfined and deformed under standard uniaxial stress conditions, where the primary principal stress corresponds to the axial stress and the intermediate and minimum principal stresses are equal to 0. Each sample was axially compressed using either a constant strain rate of 1e-5 per second or a constant loading rate of 200 N/s. The tests were completed using a servo-controlled stiff load frame in the Rock Mechanics and Physics Laboratory at the British Geological Survey, Keyworth UK. The data are separated into individual Microsoft Excel files, with each file representing a single test. Each file contains time, force, stress, displacement, and strain data.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2025-03-10
Distributor
British Geological Survey
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Enquiries
0115 936 3276
Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth
,
NOTTINGHAM
,
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
,
NG12 5GG
,
United Kingdom
0115 936 3143
0115 936 3276
Originator
British Geological Survey
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Enquiries
0115 936 3276
Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth
,
NOTTINGHAM
,
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
,
NG12 5GG
,
United Kingdom
0115 936 3143
0115 936 3276
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned Not planned
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
- BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
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- Salt
- Geomechanics
- Halite
- Citable Data
- Compressive strength
- Tensile strength
- NGDC Deposited Data
- Elastic theory
- UK Location (INSPIRE)
- Physical properties
- Rock mechanics
- dataCentre
- Keywords
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- NERC_DDC
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- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- licenceOGL
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.
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- Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
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- vector Vector
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
- Geographic identifier
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Cheshire County [id=12343]
- Date (Revision)
- 2009
- Geographic identifier
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Winsford [id=1449153]
- Date (Revision)
- 2002
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- Begin date
- 2023-05-27
- End date
- 2023-06-28
- Unique resource identifier
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700)
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)
- Distribution format
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Microsoft Word Document (.docx)
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Comma Separated Values File (.csv)
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PDF Document
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Microsoft Word Document (.docx)
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Distributor
British Geological Survey
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Enquiries
0115 936 3276
Environmental Science Centre, Nicker Hill, Keyworth
,
NOTTINGHAM
,
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
,
NG12 5GG
,
United Kingdom
0115 936 3143
0115 936 3276
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- dataset Dataset
- Other
- dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2011
- Explanation
- See the referenced specification
- Pass
- No
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
- See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
- Pass
- No
- Statement
- The experiments were conducted on right circular cylindrical samples under uniaxial stress conditions, with axial loading applied at either a constant strain rate of 1e-5 per second or a constant loading rate of 200 N/s. The tests utilized a servo-controlled stiff load frame, load cell, and axial and circumferential extensometers to measure axial force, axial strain, and radial strain. These measurements were used to determine various mechanical properties, such as UCS, Young’s Modulus, and Poisson’s Ratio. Instrument calibration and data correction were performed according to ISO standards to maintain measurement accuracy. The collected data were compiled into Microsoft Excel files, with each file representing an individual test, and a summary file was provided for reference.
- File identifier
- 3023aec2-9cf7-2a50-e063-3050940ab902 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-13
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
Point of contact
British Geological Survey
Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth
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NOTTINGHAM
,
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
,
NG12 5GG
,
United Kingdom
+44 115 936 3100
- Dataset URI
- http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608393
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