The two criteria, Eqs. (2), (4), are not applicable to negative σ3 for power number n is less than 1, and are certainly beyond the consideration for compressive-tensile strength. The Sheorey criterion ( Sheorey et al., 1989) normalized with UCS is given in the following form: (5) σ S σ C = ( 1 + m σ 3 σ C) n. The criterion proposed in ...