Experimental and Numerical Study of the Failure Behavior of Intermittent Rock Joints Subjected to Direct Shear Load

Table 3

Comparison of experimental and numerical results.

	Experimental	Numerical
Uniaxial compressive strength (MPa)	10.63	10.62
Young’s modulus (GPa)	0.89	0.89
Poisson’s ratio	0.25	0.246
Tensile strength (MPa)	1.58	1.77