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Rock Mechanics.pdf - Mining and Blasting

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Figure 9.10 JP 100 is the only JP<br />

with no intersection with the EP for<br />

the south wall (after Goodman, 1989).<br />

EXCAVATION DESIGN IN BLOCKY ROCK<br />

is possible to identify the upper <strong>and</strong> lower half-spaces of the joints on the plan. The<br />

plan view of the triangle formed from the lower half-spaces of joints 1 <strong>and</strong> 3 <strong>and</strong> the<br />

upper half-space of joint 2 is shown in Figure 9.9(b). The view of the block for an<br />

observer looking up at the roof from inside the excavation is obtained by rotation of<br />

the drawing about the E-W axis, as shown in Figure 9.9(c).<br />

Excavation sidewalls. Identification of removable blocks in the wall of an excavation<br />

requires construction of the EP for the particular wall. For example, consider<br />

the south vertical wall of an excavation in a rock mass containing the three joint sets<br />

illustrated in Figure 9.8. The rock mass forming the wall is the half-space on the south<br />

side of the plane represented by the extended horizontal diameter of the stereographic<br />

projection. The EP for the wall is therefore the shaded area shown in Figure 9.10.<br />

By inspection of Figure 9.8, the only spherical triangle that does not intersect the EP<br />

for the south wall is JP 100. The simplified construction, with the intersecting JPs<br />

removed, is shown in Figure 9.10. As a matter of interest, it is noted that the obverse<br />

block to JP 100 is JP 011, <strong>and</strong> that it would form a removable block in the north wall<br />

of the excavation.<br />

To construct the trace of JP 100 on the south wall, the procedure is to first construct<br />

the cross section view looking from the solid side (i.e. in this case, looking north)<br />

<strong>and</strong> then to invert the drawing for an observer looking at the wall from the north side.<br />

The block’s lines of intersection with the wall are obtained from the stereographic<br />

projection by measuring the orientations of the lines traced by the joints’ intersections<br />

with the vertical plane. The construction is shown in Figure 9.11. The intersection<br />

of plane 1 with the vertical plane (represented by the horizontal diameter of the<br />

reference circle) is the line represented by point a. The line oa is inclined 30 ◦ above<br />

west. Similarly the vertical intersection of plane 2, represented by point b, represents<br />

a line ob inclined 53 ◦ above west, <strong>and</strong> the intersection of plane 3, point c, corresponds<br />

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