Zhang, HeLe, Jia-LiangDetournay, Emmanuel2022-07-182022-07-182022-07-18https://hdl.handle.net/11299/228463These experimental data from scratch tests on Dunnville sandstone consists of video files, force signal files and particle data file. Both the force signals and videos files are from two rounds of scratch tests. The particle size distribution, obtained using sieving analysis at each depth of cut, is provided only for the second round of tests.This dataset contains cutting force signals, videos of rock cutting processes, particle size distribution from sieving analysis obtained from scratch tests conducted on Dunnville sandstone at different depths of cut, which cover the rock failure in ductile, fragmentation and brittle regimes. The force signals and videos can be used to study the rock failure mechanism and energy scaling in the rock cutting process. The particle size distribution data explains the energy dissipation in rock cutting process and the scaling law of the specific energy in the fragmentation regime.CC0 1.0 UniversalScratch testSpecific energy scalingRock cuttingFailure mechanismDatasethttps://doi.org/10.13020/y9n1-p722