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Major Developments 50 Years RG
Major Developments 50 Years RG
Goodman,
(A personal perspective)
1. Discovery of finite element analysis by the rock mechanics
community.
Foundation Geologic Section for the Control Structure of Folsom Aux Spillway –
Data of jointing from boreholes interpreted with study of core, including particular
mineralogic characteristics of different joint sets and data from televiewer images.
Foundation Geology
for the Control
Structure of Folsom
Aux Spillway –
Data of jointing
from three plans
and five sections
placed in global
framework by Chris
Powell using an
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View along the plane of one of the joint individuals established as a best fit to the
borehole data; It can be seen to intersect the footprint of the foundation excavation.
Analysis by Chris Powell, Bureau of Reclamation
With water and structural forces, and friction angle including the
dilatancy angle for the base plane, (measured using lidar) the factor
of safety for this block is 2.7 (using Pantechnica PT Workshop).