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    This 3-page document provides instructions for determining discontinuities sets and modes of failures in structural geology data due to slopes. It outlines the procedure for plotting great circles on an equatorial net to represent planar features like faults and foliations. It then describes analyzing the data to identify major and minor discontinuity sets, potential failure modes, and criteria that could lead to slope failure. Questions are provided to discuss failure modes and what else is needed for slope failure to occur.

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    This 3-page document provides instructions for determining discontinuities sets and modes of failures in structural geology data due to slopes. It outlines the procedure for plotting great circles on an equatorial net to represent planar features like faults and foliations. It then describes analyzing the data to identify major and minor discontinuity sets, potential failure modes, and criteria that could lead to slope failure. Questions are provided to discuss failure modes and what else is needed for slope failure to occur.

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    And Modes of Failures of Structural Geology Data Due To Slope (Lab 4B)

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    This 3-page document provides instructions for determining discontinuities sets and modes of failures in structural geology data due to slopes. It outlines the procedure for plotting great circles on an equatorial net to represent planar features like faults and foliations. It then describes analyzing the data to identify major and minor discontinuity sets, potential failure modes, and criteria that could lead to slope failure. Questions are provided to discuss failure modes and what else is needed for slope failure to occur.

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    FACULTY : CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING NO.

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    DEPARTMENT : INFRASTRUCTURE & GEOMATIC EDITION: LAB 4b
    ENGINEERING NO. OF CHECKING:
    LABORATORY : ENGINEERING GEOLOGY &
    EFECTIVE DATE : 8/1/2007
    GEOPHYSICS
    TOPIC : DETERMINE THE DISCONTINUITIES SETS
    AND MODES OF FAILURES OF STRUCTURAL AMENDMENT DATE: 8/1/2007
    GEOLOGY DATA DUE TO SLOPE (LAB 4b)

    5.0 PROCEDURE

    Plotting great circles:-

    Great circles are plotted on the equatorial net, but they cannot be plotted directly on this net because the true dip can only
    be scaled off the horizontal axis. The plotting procedure for great circles consists of the following steps:

    1. Lay a piece of tracing paper on the net with a thumbtack through the center point so that the tracing paper can be
    rotated on the net.

    2. Mark the north direction of the net on the tracing paper.

    3. Locate the dip direction of the plane on the scale around the circumference of the net and mark this point on the tracing
    paper. Note that the dip direction scale on the equatorial net for plotting great circles starts at the north point at the top
    of the circle and increases in a clockwise direction.

    4. Rotate the tracing paper until the dip direction mark coincides with one of the horizontal axes of the net, that is, the 90 o
    or 180o points of the dip direction scale.

    5. Locate the arc on the net corresponding to the dip of the plane and trace this arc into the paper. Note that a horizontal
    plane has a great circle at the circumference of the net, and a vertical plane is represented by a straight line passing
    through the center of the net.

    6. Rotate the tracing paper so that the two north points coincide and the great circle is oriented correctly.

    The slope data was given as 90° (dip direction) and 60° (dip angle) , Rock friction angle = 30°

    6.0 RESULT AND ANALYSIS


     Major and minor discontinuities sets marks as J1,J2……..Jn
     Potential modes of failures

    7.0 QUESTION AND DISCUSSION


    (1) Explain the mode of failure for rock slope for each type.
    (2) Identify which discontinuities sets that have some potential to fail and what are their failure modes.
    (3) What are the others criteria that must be met in order to promote the slope failure?

    8.0 CONCLUSION

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