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Fig.1. Hill Side Failure Along Planar Discontinuities

SHEAR STRENGTH OF ROCK JOINTS AND ROCK MASSES (part-II) Mahendra Singh Professor, Department of Civil Engineering IIT Roorkee, Roorkee-247 667

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Fig.1. Hill Side Failure Along Planar Discontinuities

SHEAR STRENGTH OF ROCK JOINTS AND ROCK MASSES (part-II) Mahendra Singh Professor, Department of Civil Engineering IIT Roorkee, Roorkee-247 667

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Fig.1.

Hill side failure along planar discontinuities

Fig. 2a. Portable field shear box to test rock joints (Ross-Brown and Walton, 1975)

Fig. 2b. Typical shear stress-shear displacement plot from direct shear test on rough rock
joints

Fig. 2c. Failure envelopes of shear strength for rough rock joint

Fig. 3. Pattons simulation of asperities and bi-linear shear strength model for rock joints

Fig. 4. Bartons shear strength model for rock joints

Fig. 5. Roughness profiles to estimate JRC (Barton and Chaubey, 1977)

Fig. 6. Instantaneous cohesion and friction angle for a non-linear failure criterion
(Hoek, 2000)

Fig. 7. Estimation of friction angle of rock mass from RMR (Mehrotra, 1993)

Fig. 8. Estimation of Geological Strength Index (redrawn from Marinos et al., 2005)

Fig. 9. Modified Mohr-Coulomb strength criterion

50

Stress (Kg/sq.cm)

40
30
20
10
e
0
0

Deformation (mm)
Fig. 10. Field modulus of elasticity (Mehrotra, 1992).

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