Title: Morphological analysis of rock blocks by block adding-subtracting method
Abstract:Block morphological analysis is the basic task in application of block theory to rock engineering.In this paper a method named as block adding-subtracting is suggested for analyzing the complicated bl...Block morphological analysis is the basic task in application of block theory to rock engineering.In this paper a method named as block adding-subtracting is suggested for analyzing the complicated block shapes.The block adding means adding blocks to a rocky block and making two blocks or more blocks work together,whereas,the block subtracting means subtracting one or more block zone from the rocky block.The basic operation rules of block adding and subtracting,algorithm of face adding and face subtracting are presented.By unified numbering of the block faces and intersections and calculating the volumes and face areas of the blocks the adding and subtracting of the blocks can be realized.An example is given to illustrate the application of this method to construct the complicated rocky block shape to simulate the foundation of a dam.Read More
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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