Recent laboratory studies of the flow and fracture of rocks under general triaxial compression are reviewed .New Developments in laboratory techniques have made it possible to measure three principal stresses and strains under general triaxial stress states ,in which all three principal stresses are different . Strength and ductility of isotropic rocks are markedly affected not only by the least compression σ3 ,although these two effects are rather additional in strength ,but opposite in ductility .The experimental results show that dilatancy is highly anisotropic rocks have been also measured under the general triaxial compression .In this case ,the effect of the intermediate compression markedly depends on the orientations of the weak planes.

The constitutive relations of rock and rock mass are essential to the study of propagation of stress wave in rock medium and its interaction with structure .in this paper ,the development of the research on constitutive relations of rock and rock mass is briefly reviewed ;the equations of state of rock in fluid state at high pressures and the con equations of rock in solid state are mainly described .The cop model as the constitutive equation of rock and its generaligations especially discussed .

Based on the in-situ uniaxial compression rheological tests on the weak intercalations and on the fault fragmentation zone ,time-effect on deformation and failure mechanism of the weak rock mass is investigted. The method of determining long-term strength of weak intercalations , empirical formula and influencing range of the time-effect on the various tests are made and the met of determining different stages of rheological process and long-term strength are discussed in detail .

This report presents the data of stress –strain and failure strength of two granites and a lamprophyre at the strain rate of 10-4/sec , and 10-1/sec under uniaxial compression .The results of the tests show that ultimate compressive strength and the deformation modulus of rock notably increase within the rate of strain of specimens; There exists a linear retation between lagarithms of the loading rates and strain rates .

This paper presents a set of formulate of quantitive computation for deigning the stiff testing machine has been built and used to measure complete Stress-strain curves for several rocks .