"Investigation of Shear Behaviour of Rock Joints under Cyclic Loading" by Mairaj Hyder Alias Aamir Soomro
Mechanical behaviour of a rock mass is significantly affected by the occurrence of inherent discontinuities (such as joints, fractures, bedding planes, etc.), therefore comprehensive knowledge of the effect of such discontinuities is necessary for the safe and economic design of geo-structures in or on a rock mass. Generally, the typical shear behaviour of a rock joint has been investigated under monotonic loading conditions, ignoring the fact that most of the time the structures embedded in a rock mass are subjected to cyclic loads, and it is likely that such structures fail to sustain the in...