Morphology characteristics of joint surface in rock mass

Abstract

In order to quantify the characteristics of the surface of jointed rock mass, new equipment, the three-dimensional laser surface topography instrument, was used to accurately measure surface morphology of joints. Scan pictures and parameters were obtained to describe the rock joint surface characteristics, for example, the height frequency of surface, and mean square roughness. Using the method of fractal dimension, the values of joint roughness coefficient (JRC) were calculated based on the above parameters. It could access to the joint surface rock sample morphology of the main parameters of characteristic. The maximum peak height is 2.692 mm in the test joint plane. The maximum profile height is 4.408 mm. JRC value is 6.38 by fractal dimension computing. It belongs to the smooth joint surface. The results show that it is a kind of the effective method to quantitatively evaluate the surface topography by the three-dimensional laser surface topography instrument and the fractal dimension method. According to the results, during the process of underground large-scale mining, safe measures to prevent slip failure of the joint plane by controlling surface tension and shear mechanical response were proposed.