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A Study on Hydraulic Characteristics of Rock Joints Dependant on JRC Ranges  

Chae Byung-Gon (Geological and Environmental Hazards Div., Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Seo Yong-Seok (Dept. of Earth & Environmental Sci. & Institute for Basic Science Research, Chungbuk National University)
Kim Ji-Soo (Dept. of Earth & Environmental Sci. & Institute for Basic Science Research, Chungbuk National University)
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The Journal of Engineering Geology / v.14, no.4, 2004 , pp. 461-468 More about this Journal
Abstract
In order to characterize hydraulic property dependant on join roughness in rock mass, this study computed permeability coefficients on each range of joint roughness coefficient (JRC) suggested by Barton(1976). For a quantitative analysis of roughness components spectral analysis using the fast fourier transform was performed to select effective frequencies on each PC range. The results of spectral analyses show that low ranges of the JRC are mainly composed of low frequency domain, while high ranges of the JRC have dominant components at high frequency domain. The inverse Fourier transform made it possible to generate joint models of each JRC range using the effective frequencies of roughness spectrum. The homogenization analysis was applied to calculate permeability coefficient at homogeneous microscale, and then, computes a homogenized permeability coefficient (C-permeability coefficient) at macro scale. Therefore, it is possible to analyze accurate characteristics of permeability reflected with local effect of facture geometry. According to the calculation results, permeability coefficients were distributed between $10^{-3}m/sec\;and\;10^{-4}/sec$. In cases of sheared joint models permeability coefficients were plotted between $10^{-4}m/sec\;and\;10^{-5}/sec$, showing irregular distribution of permeability coefficients on each IRC range. The differences of permeability coefficients for the same aperture models or for the sheared joint models indicate that changes of roughness pattern influence on permeability coefficients. Therefore, the effect of joint roughness should be considered to characterize hydraulic properties in rock joints.
Keywords
Joint roughness coefficient; Spectral analysis; Homogenization analysis; Permeability coefficient;
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