Research Article

A New Unified Solution for Circular Opening considering Different Strength Criteria and the Postpeak Elastic Strain Form

Table 2

Geometrical and physical parameters of circular opening.

ParametersRock type by Park and Kim (2006) [10]
Hard rockSoft rock

Radius of opening, (m)11
Initial stress, (MPa)11
Internal pressure, (MPa)00
Young’s modulus, (MPa)50,0005000
Poisson’s ratio, 0.20.2
Shear modulus, (MPa)208332083
(MPa)0.1730.276
(deg)5535
(MPa)0.0610.055
(deg)5230