Research Article
Numerical Simulation of Bedrock Sagging Sinkholes in Strain-Softening Rock Induced by Embankment Construction
Table 4
Comparison between Hoek–Brown criterion and Mohr–Coulomb criterion.
| Samples | Intact rock | Rock mass |
| UCS (MPa) | Laboratory measurements | 120 | 88 | Estimated by Hoek–Brown | 120 | 62 | Estimated by Mohr–Coulomb | 111 | 72 |
| σti (MPa) | Laboratory measurements | 11 | 3.5 | Estimated by Hoek–Brown | 10 | 4.0 | Estimated by Mohr–Coulomb | 19 | 16 |
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