Shear Resistance of Rock Joint under Nonuniform Normal Stress

Figure 5

Peak shear strength and the average shear strength of the joint in JRC-JCS model (peak shear strength: the solid red line; average shear strength: the dashed red line). (a) Uniform distribution. (b) Symmetric distribution. (c) Linear distribution. (d) Linear distribution.

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