Geomechanical Model for Rock Foundation Settlement
- 1 February 1978
- journal article
- Published by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in Journal of the Geotechnical Engineering Division
- Vol. 104 (2) , 211-227
- https://doi.org/10.1061/ajgeb6.0000582
Abstract
A geomechanical model is proposed for estimating the settlement of foundations on rock masses. Included is a rock mass model for reducing rock material properties to rock mass properties and an RQD model to correlate RQD with discontinuity frequency. The models are used with anisotropic elastic solutions to evaluate settlements on isotropic, transversely isotropic, and orthogonally jointed rock masses. An extensive material property summary is included for initial estimations, and design examples are included.Keywords
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