A New Method to Estimate the Joint Roughness Coefficient by Back Calculation of Shear Strength

Table 5

τ^LR values of joint simulated by the SJM.

Joint number	Normal stress
	5 MPa	6 MPa	7 MPa	8 MPa
1	5.85	6.74	7.70	8.44
2	6.84	7.74	8.47	9.76
3	6.27	7.29	8.11	9.11
4	6.85	7.73	8.77	9.75
5	7.58	8.65	10.11	11.32
6	8.90	9.98	11.16	12.23
7	8.87	10.07	11.29	12.33
8	10.64	12.15	13.66	14.91
9	10.08	11.89	13.29	14.90
10	12.05	13.47	14.83	15.99