Research Article

A New Statistical Parameter for Determining Joint Roughness Coefficient (JRC) considering the Shear Direction and Contribution of Different Protrusions

Table 5

The fitting formulas between WPA and JRC under different sampling intervals.

Sampling interval (mm)Functional relationshipR2

0.5JRC = 14.602ln(WPA) - 12.5360.9643
1JRC = 11.871ln(WPA) - 6.7470.9547
2JRC = 9.496ln(WPA) − 1.5850.9450
4JRC = 8.335ln(WPA) + 1.3370.9379
10JRC = 7.370ln(WPA) + 4.4060.9311