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

Table 6

τ^LR values of joint simulated by the MSJM.

Joint number	Normal stress
	5 MPa	6 MPa	7 MPa	8 MPa
1	5.12	5.96	6.91	7.83
2	5.49	6.51	7.59	8.34
3	6.43	7.42	8.38	9.40
4	6.47	7.56	8.59	9.52
5	7.32	8.34	9.24	10.18
6	7.95	9.00	10.02	11.03
7	8.65	9.56	10.69	11.73
8	9.26	10.69	11.76	12.84
9	9.45	10.75	12.31	13.74
10	11.19	12.35	13.32	14.67