Development of a multivariate empirical model for predicting weak rock mass modulus.pdfVIP

InternationalJournalofMiningScienceandTechnology25(2015)545—552 一 A R T IC LE IN F O A B ST R A C T Articlehistory： Estimatingweakrockmassmodulushashistoricallyprovendifficultalthoughthismechanicalpropertyis Received 15December2014 animportantinputtomanytypesofgeotechnicalanalyses．Anempiricaldatabaseofweakrockmass Receivedinrevisedform 18January2015 moduluswithassociateddetailedgeotechnicalparameterswasassembledfrom plateloadingtestsper— Accepted 16February 2015 formedatundergroundminesinNevada．theBakhtiaryDam project．andPortuguesDamproject．The Availableonline6June2015 databasewasusedtoassesstheaccuracyofpublishedsingle．．variatemodelsandtodevelopamultivari-- atemodelforpredictingin—situweakrockmassmoduluswhenlimitedgeotechnicaldataareavailable． Keywords： Onlytwoofthepublishedmodelswereadequateofrpredictingmodulusofweakrockmassesoverlim— In—situmodulus itedrangesofalterationintensities．andnoneofthemodelsprovidedgoodestimatesofmodulusovera W eakrockmass rangeofgeotechnicalproperties．1nlightofthisshortcoming．amultivariatemodelwasdevelopedfrom Preliminary design Elasticdeformation theweakrockmassmodulusdataset．andthenew mode1isexponentialinofrm andhastheofllowing independentvariables：(1)averageblocksizeoriointspacing．(2)fieldestimatedrockstrength．(3)dis— continuityroughness．and(4)discontinuityinfillinghardness．Themultivariatemode1providedbetter