Development of a Rock Strength Database
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Development of a Rock Strength Database
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2018-06
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Minnesota Department of Transportation
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Rock strength and elastic behavior are important for foundations such as spread footings resting on rock and drilled shafts socketed into rock. In addition to traditional rock quality information, stiffness and failure parameters are helpful for design. MnDOT has previously used a low-capacity load frame for routine rock testing but this apparatus does not generate sufficient force for testing hard rock. The report provides a comprehensive suite of results from 134 specimens tested under uniaxial compression and 33 specimens tested under triaxial compression on a wide variety of rock, including hard rock, which frequently is of interest for high-capacity foundation systems. Thus, an economic benefit is realized if the strength of the rock is measured, as opposed to correlated with an index parameter, due to the potential to reduce foundation size and construction time. Information from the testing was used to expand the MnDOT database of rock properties and allow for improved designs based on accurate measurements of Young’s modulus, uniaxial compressive strength, and friction angle.
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Folta, Brian; Sharpe, Jacob; Hu, Chen; Labuz, Joseph. (2018). Development of a Rock Strength Database. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/200643.
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