A Constitutive Model of Opened Rock Joints in the Field

Mechanical properties of rock joints govern the strength and deformational behaviour of a rock mass. The responses of a rock joint to shear and normal loadings highly depend on its surface properties, block size and matching state. Rock joints can become mismatched or opened due to underground excav...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Li, Yingchun
Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: UNSW, Sydney 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/57069
https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/bitstreams/805bdcce-3525-495a-b71e-0190c379a17a/download
https://doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/19307