Despite significant advancements in in situ test techniques, construction practices, understanding of rock joint and rock mass behaviours, and numerical analysis methods, the design of bored concrete...
This paper describes the results of laboratory direa shear tests on rock joints.The tests investigate the influence of interface roughness on joint shear behaviour.Comparisons are made between test r...
This paper briefly describes the results of pile load tests carried out on 36 piles socketed into a moderately weathered mudstone.The parameters investigated include socket diameter and roughness and...
The use of direct shear testing to provide data on jointed rock mass behaviour to applied loads has been limited.Unlike other methods,such as triaxial and UCS testing,the location of the shear plane ...
