ENVS338

Practical Assessment 1 Engineering Geology

Instructions to Candidates
Candidates should answer all questions. Only one answer per question. All work submitted must be your own work: plagiarism and collusion will be severely punished. Write your student number and only your student number on the line below. Write your student number and only your student number on all additional pieces of paper (e.g. graphs, stereographic projections, etc.) submitted for assessment. Use your student number and only your student number to identify your work. Place your work in the appropriate box in the Herdman Building by 10.00 a.m. Friday 11th October 2013. Do not use a School cover sheet to identify your work. The penalty for late submission is 5 % per day of the total marks available for the assessment.

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To assist marking please use the labels below:

pole 2pole

plane
2plane

Angles measured anticlockwise are positive ( + ). Angles measured clockwise are negative ( - ).

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On a Mohr diagram or diagrams (with a scale of 2 cm = 100 bars) use the information provided below to plot the following states of stress at a point: (a) (b) a hydrostatic stress of + 725 bars; a non - hydrostatic stress with principal stresses; (i) (ii) (c)

1 = + 975 bars;
3 = + 650 bars;

a non - hydrostatic stress with a mean stress of + 400 bars and a deviatoric stress of 225 bars.

2.

For the state of stress at a point in question 1(b) determine the magnitudes of the shear and normal stress components acting on planes that make the

1 ): following angles with the maximum compressive stress (

(a) (b) 3. + 25; - 75.

Figure 1 displays the orientations of a pair of coordinate axes on a sub horizontal bedding surface in the centre of a cratonic region. The shear and normal stress components associated with these directions are shown in the diagram. Assume that the stress field is homogeneous over the field of view.

2 ) is vertical. Assume that the intermediate principal stress (

Using the information provided above and a Mohr diagram or diagrams (with a scale of 2 cm = 100 bars): (a) determine the magnitudes and orientations of the principal
3 ); 1 and stresses (

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1 and plot and label the orientations of the principal stresses 3 as they pass through point P in Figure 1;
determine the shear and normal stress components associated with a pair of orthogonal coordinate axes when one of the axes is orientated north - south and the other is orientated east - west.

(c)

Student number _______________ N x3

+ 325 bars + 90 bars + 625 bars

Point P

x1 - 90 bars Figure 1

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