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Rock Mechanics.pdf - Mining and Blasting

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PROBLEMS<br />

of the circle diagram yields<br />

tan 1 = (OS1 − OD)<br />

DF<br />

= (1 − xx)<br />

This expression is completely consistent with that for orientations of principal axes<br />

established analytically (equation 2.24b).<br />

Problems<br />

(The geomechanics convention for stress <strong>and</strong> strain is to be assumed in the following<br />

exercises.)<br />

1 The rectangular plate shown in the figure below has the given loads uniformly<br />

distributed over the edges. The plate is 50 mm thick, AB is 500 mm <strong>and</strong> BC is<br />

400 mm.<br />

(a) Determine the shear forces which must operate on the edges BC, DA, to maintain<br />

the equilibrium of the plate.<br />

(b) Relative to the x, y reference axes, determine the state of stress at any point P<br />

in the interior of the plate.<br />

(c) For the l, m axes oriented as shown, determine the stress components<br />

ll, mm, lm.<br />

(d) Determine the magnitudes of the principal stresses, <strong>and</strong> the orientation of the<br />

major principal stress axis to the x axis.<br />

(e) For the surface GH, whose outward normal is inclined at ◦ to the x axis,<br />

determine expressions for the component tractions, tx, ty, operating on it as a<br />

43<br />

xy

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