amage on the physical and mechanical properties of rocks under a
post-high temperature condition by laboratory testing. For example,
Keshavarz et al. (2010) conducted uniaxial compression tests on a
hard gabbro after thermally heating the rocks to high temperatures up
to 1000 °C to study the influence of thermal damage on the mechanical
properties of rocks. Yavuz et al. (2010) investigated the effect of thermal
damage on the physical properties of five carbonate rocks through
examination of microstructure, bulk density, effective porosity, and
P-wave velocity of the tested rocks. Chen et al. (2012) studied the influence
of temperature on the mechanical properties of a granite under
uniaxial compression and fatigue loading. Brotóns et al. (2013) carried
out several uniaxial compression tests to research the effect of high temperatures
on the physical and mechanical properties of San Julian
calcarenite. The influence of thermal damage on linear and nonlinear
acoustic properties of the Westerly granite was studied by Inserra
et al. (2013).