A note on some plasticity solutions relevant to the bearing capacity of brittle and fissured materials
Abstract
Conventional stability analysis which only requires the input of two strength parameters of the material, c and ϕ, may lead to an unreliable estimate of the bearing capacity of a mass of rock because of two main factors.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Tunneling and Rock Mechanics
Grouting
Rheology
and Soil Mechanics
Rock Mechanics and Modeling
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Structural Foundations on Rock, volume 2
- Publisher
- CRC Press
- Volume
- 2
- Pages
- 83–90
- Publication date
- 9 January 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter