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Harmonising Rock Engineering and the Environment – Qian Zhou (eds) © 2012 Taylor Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-0-415-80444-8 Response of granite under strain controlled loading and effect of support system on behaviour of large underground cavern Rakesh Kumar GMR Consulting Services Pvt. Ltd., Delhi, India K.G. Sharma A. Varadarajan Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India ABSTRACT: The hard rocks like granite, basalt, quartzite etc. show the sudden failure due to loading and unloading. The phenomena of rock bursting during underground excavation for such hard rocks under high rock cover is quite common. The rocks in general show strain softening behavior under loading and unloading. The strain softening behavior of rocks is captured using strain controlled tests in the laboratory. The rate of strain softening (residual strain/peak strain) is generally more in softer rocks than that in harder rocks. The paper presents the post peak response of granite under strain controlled loading for confining pressures of 0 to 30 MPa in the laboratory. The strength and deformation parameters are determined from laboratory test results. The peak and residual strength parameters are determined using Mohr Coulomb criterion.The variation of cohesion and friction angle with plastic strain is also determined. The rock shows the vertical splitting under confining pressures of 0 and 10 MPa and shear failure under other high confining pressures. The rate of softening is less under low confining pressures and high under high confining pressures. The paper also pres