Constitutive Rock Properties for the HANDEC II Site.

Abstract

An extensive series of laboratory tests was performed on rock cores taken from borings in the test bed of the HANDEC II experiment. The purpose of these tests was to define the intact rock properties and formulate a material model for the test site suitable for use in conjunction with one-and two-dimensional, ground-motion prediction codes. The rock at the HANDEC II site is a massive quartz diorite intrusion which is rather heavily jointed to a depth of about 30 feet. The drilling logs and test data indicate that a two-layer model represents the site reasonably well. The upper layer extends from the surface to a depth of 30 feet, and the lower layer extends from 30 feet downwards. Failure criteria were determined from triaxial compression, unconfined compression, and tensile splitting tests. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0864158

Entities

People

  • Dale Stephenson
  • Delmar Calhoun

Organizations

  • University of New Mexico

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Buildings And Structures
  • Compression
  • Drilling
  • Intrusion
  • Laboratory Procedures
  • Laboratory Tests
  • Materials
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Research Facilities
  • Splitting
  • Test Beds
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Geotechnical Engineering.