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Rock Mechanics.pdf - Mining and Blasting

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Figure 7.3 (a) Axisymmetric stress<br />

distribution around a circular opening<br />

in a hydrostatic stress field; (b) circular<br />

openings in a hydrostatic stress field,<br />

effectively isolated by virtue of their<br />

exclusion from each other’s zone of<br />

influence.<br />

Figure 7.4 Illustration of the effect<br />

of contiguous openings of different dimensions.<br />

The zone of influence of excavation<br />

I includes excavation II, but<br />

the converse does not apply.<br />

EXCAVATION DESIGN IN MASSIVE ELASTIC ROCK<br />

excavations. Figure 7.3b illustrates the overlap of the zones of influence of two circular<br />

openings. In the overlap region, the state of stress is produced by the pre-mining<br />

stresses <strong>and</strong> the stress increments induced by each of the excavations I <strong>and</strong> II. In the<br />

other sections of each zone of influence, the state of stress is that due to the particular<br />

excavation.<br />

Figure 7.4 illustrates a large-diameter opening (I) with a small-diameter opening<br />

(II) in its zone of influence. Since excavation I is outside the zone of influence of<br />

excavation II, a fair estimate of the boundary stresses around I is obtained from the<br />

stress distribution for a single opening. For excavation II, the field stresses are those<br />

due to the presence of excavation I. An engineering estimate of the boundary stresses<br />

around II can be obtained by calculating the state of stress at the centre of II, prior to<br />

its excavation. This can be introduced as the far-field stresses in the Kirsch equations<br />

(Equations 6.18) to yield the required boundary stresses for the smaller excavation.<br />

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