RockType: 1 General H\ GSI Selection: [50 | | OK | |
SURFACE CONDITIONS | ||||||
s|»» |
FAIR |
poorI POOR POOR | |||||
STRUCTURE |
DECREASING SURFACE OUALITY NcO | ||||||
c |
INTACT OR MASSIVE - intact rock speclmens or massive in situ rock with few widely spaced discontinuities tu |
77 80 // // |
7 |
i |
/ |
N/A | |
" ] BLOCKY - well interlocked un- £ disturbed rock mass consisting o of cubical blocks formed by three § [ '•■'■■I interseding discontinuity sets Ł |
Z/ |
/ |
7 |
7 | |||
i |
O VERY BLOCKY- interlocked, z partially disturbed mass with g formed by 4 or morę joint sets ^ |
// // |
// |
7 |
7 / |
// |
//, |
BLOCKY/DISTURBED/SEAMY z - folded with angular blocks formed by many interseding z discontinuity sets. Persistence ^ of beddlng planes or schistosity tu |
;/, |
// |
$ |
7 |
[// | ||
f / |
J | ||||||
DISINTEGRATED - poorly inter- tu locked, heavily broken rock mass Q with mixture of angular and Nf rounded rock pieces |
7/ |
// |
y/ |
77 f | |||
i |
LAMINATED/SHEARED - Lack of blockiness due to close spacing of weak schistosity or shear planes |
N/A |
N/A |
Ll |
ż |
! |
Figurę 1: Correlation between GSI and rock mass properties and A//and Nc parameters definition. Rocscience [8]
mb ( GSI - 100^ m, Z 28-I4D J |
(2) |
(GSI -100^ | |
(3) | |
\ 9-3D ) | |
(4) | |
2 6' ’ |
where m, is a materiał constant and D is a Disturbance Factor.
A correlation between the GSI index and the rock mass ąuality can be seen in Figurę I.
The GSI is insensitive to those rock mass characteristics that most influence rock mass strength. A series of relationships are proposed that seek to partially address this issue by differentiating rock masses having the same GSI. These relationships are functions of two parameters, N/ and Nc. Nf is a function of the characteristics of the fracturing and interlocking and Nc is a function of the joint condition. The variation of these parameters is conceptually shown in Figurę 1, For example a blocky rock with fair joint surface condition might have a GSI=35, in this case the blocky conditions is characterized by the parameter Nr and the fair surface condition by the parameter Nc,