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This tutorial guides users in fitting the Generalized Hoek-Brown criterion to triaxial strength data for rock masses using RocData software. It outlines steps to set up a new analysis file, input field data parameters, and view the resulting plots. The tutorial concludes with the display of triaxial data points on the principal stress plot and Mohr circles on the direct shear plot.

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Tutorial_04_Triaxial_Field_Data

This tutorial guides users in fitting the Generalized Hoek-Brown criterion to triaxial strength data for rock masses using RocData software. It outlines steps to set up a new analysis file, input field data parameters, and view the resulting plots. The tutorial concludes with the display of triaxial data points on the principal stress plot and Mohr circles on the direct shear plot.

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Analysis of Triaxial Field Data 4-1

Tutorial 4 – Generalized Hoek-Brown


Analysis of Field Data
This tutorial will fit the Generalized Hoek-Brown criterion to
triaxial strength data for a rock mass.

Start up RocData and a new analysis file will be automatically


opened. If you are already in the program select the New option
from the File menu or from the toolbar.

The default view is the “Table Values View” in which the user
can estimate strength parameters using reference tables. However,
with the availability of triaxial test data, we can derive the
parameters using strength envelopes best-fit to the dataset. This is
done in the “Lab Data View,” which can be accessed from the
toolbar or the Analysis menu.

Select the Project Settings option (from the Analysis menu or the
toolbar) and ensure that the measurement unit is set to MPa and
strength criterion set to Generalized Hoek-Brown. Exit the
Project Settings dialog by pressing the OK button.

Let’s move to the sidebar.

Change the drop-list at the top of the sidebar to “Field (Rock Mass)
Data.” This means the analysis is for field rather than lab data.

Under “Field (Rock Mass) Data Analysis,” input the following


sigci and D values:

• Sigci = 50 MPa
• D = 0.5

Enter the following coordinates in the data grid:

RocData v.5.0 Tutorial Examples


Analysis of Triaxial Field Data 4-2

Click “Zoom Extents” to display all data points.

Input the following curve fitting parameters:

Once both the dataset and the curve fitting parameters have been
entered, the plot and curve fitting results are automatically
updated.

Let’s view both the Principal Stress Plot and the Normal vs. Shear
Stress plots.

RocData v.5.0 Tutorial Examples


Analysis of Triaxial Field Data 4-3

Triaxial data points are shown as points on the principal stress


plot of the strength envelope, and as Mohr circles on the direct
shear plot.

This concludes the tutorial on fitting the Generalized Hoek-Brown


criterion to field (rock mass) triaxial strength data.

RocData v.5.0 Tutorial Examples

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