A New Rock Joint Generation Method and Its Verification in PFC2D

Table 2

Comparison of the numerical and experimental results.

Test type	Uniaxial compressive strength (MPa)	Elastic modulus (GPa)	Poisson’s ratio
Experiment	27.4	4.2	0.2
Simulation	27.9 ± 0.53	4.3 ± 0.03	0.23 ± 0.005