%0 Journal Article %T ANISOTROP¨ªA MEC¨¢NICA DEL NEIS DE LA CASA DE M¨¢QUINAS DE LA HIDROEL¨¦CTRICA PORCE III %A SUAREZBURGOA %A LUDGER %A CASTRO CAICEDO %A ¨¢LVARO %A PACHECO DE ASSIS %A ANDR¨¦ %J Bolet¨ªn de Ciencias de la Tierra %D 2010 %I Universidad Nacional de Colombia %X in this work is presented the results of the different laboratory tests carried out on gneissic intact rock of the porce iii hydroelectric project, colombia, in order to determine the degree of deformation and failure strength anisotropy under stress. this study concludes that the gneiss is a sound, brittle, of high strength and low grade anisotropic rock, and can be well modeled by a transverse isotropic linear elastic behavior under the drucker-prager failure criterion. %K gneiss %K transverse isotropy %K intact rock %K porce iii %K colombia. %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0120-36302010000100007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en