## 3 Results and Discussion
### Intact Rock Properties
#### 3.1.2 Traverine
In any case, the value of \(\sigma_{c(31)}\) is well above the range 30-60 MPa for \(d\) between 43 and 54 mm [59, 60, 61]. Regarding the point load test, the results are shown in Table 7. The values of \(I_{s(50)}\) were determined from Equation (27), with a coefficient \(k_{2}\) of +1.160 obtained experimentally from Figure 3. In this case, it is confirmed that the model is descending, although it is true that the minimum was 44 mm, so it cannot be ruled out that for lower values the model is ascending. Table 8 shows the 30 corrected \(R_{N}\) measurements taken on the three plates 7 cm thick and more than 1 m\({}^{2}\) in surface area. The corrected results do not fall within any range, since no bibliographic reference has been found in this regard. \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c c} \hline
**Specimen** & \(d\) **(mm)** & \(H\) **(mm)** & \(n_{\mathit{eff}}\) (\%)** & \(\rho_{dry}\) (g\(\cdot\)cm\({}^{-3}\)) & \(\sigma_{c}\) **(MPa)** \\ \hline Traverting 1 & 31.090 & 59.470 & 3.65 & 2.48 & 75.28 \\ Traverting 2 & 30.970 & 59.550 & 4.09 & 2.37 & 74.95 \\ Traverting 3 & 31.000 & 60.350 & 4.44 & 2.37 & 97.55 \\ Traverting 4 & 30.750 & 60.350 & 4.58 & 2.36 & 89.79 \\ Traverting 5 & 31.050 & 60.160 & 3.58 & 2.38 & 54.17 \\ Traverting 6 & 31.080 & 60.310 & 4.57 & 2.47 & 78.43 \\ Traverting 7 & 31.170 & 59.980 & 4.70 & 2.41 & 93.17 \\ Traverting 8 & 31.118 & 59.688 & 4.37 & 2.48 & 74.79 \\ Traverting 9 & 31.070 & 59.780 & 7.19 & 2.41 & 78.84 \\ Traverting 10 & 31.020 & 59.800 & 6.65 & 2.40 & 85.98 \\ Traverting 11 & 31.175 & 61.613 & 4.92 & 2.47 & 63.78 \\ Traverting 12 & 31.213 & 62.450 & 4.71 & 2.46 & 104.00 \\ Traverting 13 & 31.200 & 62.900 & 3.83 & 2.45 & 121.98 \\ Traverting 14 & 31.200 & 61.950 & 4.00 & 2.41 & 81.91 \\ Traverting 15 & 31.187 & 62.000 & 4.12 & 2.44 & 94.61 \\ Traverting 16 & 31.250 & 61.663 & 4.61 & 2.41 & 88.86 \\ Traverting 17 & 31.163 & 61.938 & 8.01 & 2.34 & 85.65 \\ Traverting 18 & 31.200 & 61.950 & 7.34 & 2.40 & 50.89 \\ Traverting 19 & 31.300 & 62.650 & 3.43 & 2.42 & 98.26 \\ Traverting 20 & 31.250 & 61.925 & 3.68 & 2.45 & 84.71 \\ Traverting 21 & 31.150 & 62.450 & 5.42 & 2.37 & 81.05 \\ Traverting 22 & 31.150 & 62.350 & 2.32 & 2.41 & 123.38 \\ Traverting 23 & 31.220 & 62.300 & 4.19 & 2.37 & 90.77 \\ Traverting 24 & 31.100 & 62.650 & 4.71 & 2.45 & 88.17 \\ Traverting 25 & 31.200 & 62.250 & 1.05 & 2.49 & 115.430 \\ Traverting 26 & 31.400 & 62.100 & 0.99 & 2.47 & 129.170 \\ Traverting 27 & 31.400 & 62.200 & 0.77 & 2.46 & 115.560 \\ Traverting 28 & 31.200 & 62.700 & 0.72 & 2.50 & 125.870 \\ Traverting 29 & 31.250 & 62.500 & 0.70 & 2.43 & 112.870 \\ \hline Mean & 31.128 & 61.259 & 4.05 & 2.43 & 91.72 \\ SD & 0.116 & 1.192 & 1.924 & 0.044 & 20.44 \\ \hline \end{tabular}
\end{table} 
Table 6: Results of the uniaxial compressive strength, density, and porosity tests on traverting. \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c c c} \hline \hline
**Slump** & \(D\) **(mm)** & \(W\) **(mm)** & \(d_{e}\) **(mm)** & \(P\) **(kN)** & \(I_{s}\) **(MPa)** & \(I_{s(50)}\) **(MPa)** \\ \hline Traverting 30 & 46 & 74.5 & 66.1 & 16.6 & 3.80 & 4.15 \\ Traverting 31 & 57 & 99 & 84.8 & 22.8 & 3.17 & 3.74 \\ Traverting 32 & 36 & 47.5 & 46.7 & 12.2 & 5.60 & 5.48 \\ Traverting 33 & 45 & 56 & 56.6 & 15.7 & 4.89 & 5.09 \\ Traverting 34 & 41 & 78.1 & 63.9 & 14.1 & 3.46 & 3.73 \\ Traverting 35 & 48 & 64.5 & 62.8 & 16.3 & 4.14 & 4.44 \\ Traverting 36 & 39 & 101 & 70.8 & 12.4 & 2.47 & 2.76 \\ Traverting 37 & 42 & 53.5 & 53.5 & 12.3 & 4.30 & 4.39 \\ Traverting 38 & 39 & 59.5 & 54.4 & 16.3 & 5.52 & 5.66 \\ Traverting 39 & 32.2 & 61.3 & 50.1 & 12.4 & 4.93 & 4.94 \\ Traverting 40 & 39 & 67.9 & 58.1 & 15.6 & 4.63 & 4.85 \\ Traverting 41 & 36 & 74 & 58.2 & 15.9 & 4.69 & 4.92 \\ Traverting 42 & 43 & 70.8 & 62.3 & 13.1 & 3.38 & 3.62 \\ Traverting 43 & 25 & 80.6 & 50.7 & 10.7 & 4.17 & 4.19 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
\end{table} 
Table 7: Results of the point load test on traverting.