Estimation of Fracture Geometry Parameters and Characterization of Rock Mass Structure for the Beishan Area, China
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This work is supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China, under grant No. 2018YFC1504903,the Chongqing Natural Science Foundation, under grant No. cstc2020jcyj-msxmX0743 and cstc 2020jcyj-bsh0142, the Open Research Fund of the State Key Laboratory of Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, under grant No. Z019018, China postdoctoral science foundation Grant No. 2019M662918 and 2020M673152, Regional Joint Fund for Basic and Applied Basic Research Fund of Guangdong Province, No. 2019A1515110836 and the National Natural Science Foundation of China, under grant No. 41688103.

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    The accurate estimation of fracture geometry parameters and the characterization of rock mass structure are two important topics in the geological disposal system of high-level radioactive waste (HLW). The Beishan area, as the current preselected area for China's HLW disposal, has three subareas considered to be the key survey area at the stage of site selection. In this paper, a comprehensive survey method conducted on the outcrop is developed to estimate fracture geometry parameters. Results show that fracture occurrence obeys a Fisher distribution, fracture trace length obeys a normal distribution, and the distribution of spacing obeys a negative exponential distribution. An evaluation index, Rock Mass Structure Rating (RMSR), is proposed to characterize rock mass structure for the three subareas. The results show that the Xinchang area is more suitable to act as China’s HLW disposal repository site. At the same time, the index can also be applied to characterize surface rock mass structure and rock mass integrity at the site selection phase of HLW disposal.

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WEI Xiang, GUO Ying, CHENG Hanlie, WEI Jianfei, ZHANG Linlin, HUO Liang, HOU Zhenkun.2020. Estimation of Fracture Geometry Parameters and Characterization of Rock Mass Structure for the Beishan Area, China[J]. Acta Geologica Sinica(),94(5):1381-1392

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  • Received:December 12,2018
  • Revised:November 02,2019
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  • Online: October 26,2020
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