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To determine the rock’s geotechnical model, the stages of the joints survey will be illustrated, referring to geo-structural conditions (spacing, aperture, persistence) and to hydraulic and joint strength conditions (roughness, wall strength, degree of alteration, filling materials).<\/p>\n

The procedure used for performing the survey is described in the ISRM recommendations, “Suggested Methods for the Quantitative Description of Discontinuities in Rock Masses”.<\/p>\n

PROJECTIONS AND PLOTTING<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/strong>WULFF DIAGRAM
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is the stereographic projection of the terrestrial meridians and parallels on a plane passing through the centre and to the two poles. It is an isogonal projection, in which the angles between the individual planes are retained on the projections, for which the areas defined by the intersection between two parallels and two meridians are strongly distorted from the centre towards the edges of the net.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0<\/strong>SCHMIDT-LAMBERT DIAGRAM<\/p>\n

It is used to prevent the areal distortion of the Wulff diagram and is, therefore, suitable for statistical interpretations. Arcs of ellipses represent the great circles.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0<\/strong>EQUAL AREA, EQUIANGULAR AND STEREOGRAPHIC POLAR DIAGRAM<\/p>\n

They are similar to the previous ones, representing the joint poles.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0<\/strong>STAR DIAGRAM<\/p>\n

Representation of joints’ measurements. the observations are represented on a circular reference marked from 0 \u00b0 to 360 \u00b0 and radial lines at intervals of 10 \u00b0. The observations are grouped in the 10\u00b0 sector to which they belong. The number of observations is represented in a radial direction relative to the circles corresponding to 5, 10 and 15 observations.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0<\/strong>ISODENSITY DIAGRAM<\/p>\n

Several joint families can be recognised from the distribution on the poles grid corresponding to a significant data set. To achieve this goal are plotted the isodensity diagrams, the place of centres of unit areas that contain the same number of poles. The unit area is conventionally equal to 1% of the total area of the diagram. The method used to investigate the distribution of the poles’ density is developed by Denness, who has divided the reference sphere into 100 elementary cells.<\/p>\n

GRAPHICAL RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0<\/strong>PERCENTAGE OCCURRENCE GRAPHICS<\/p>\n

It is a type of graphic (histogram) where are represented, as a percentage, all occurrences of joints in the subdivision classes of the joint features to be represented (aperture, spacing or persistence).<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0<\/strong>MODAL VALUE<\/p>\n

In a histogram shown, for each joint family, the distribution of the characteristic (aperture, spacing, persistence). The user can plot sequentially all the measured families.<\/p>\n

STABILITY ANALYSIS<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u2022 <\/strong>MARKLAND TEST<\/p>\n

The Markland test aims to quantify the possibility of rock wedge failure in which the sliding occurs along the intersection line of two planar joints. The test is used to evaluate critical joints, so more detailed stability checks must follow it. Hocking has implemented further development of the Markland test. The test, in fact, allows the possibility that the sliding occurs along one of the planes that constitute the wedge and not only along the intersection line of the two planes themselves.<\/p>\n

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The software GMS (GeoMechanical Survey) aims to represent and process the geo-structural survey of rock masses joints performed in situ using the compass and clinometer method, according to the ISRM recommendations.<\/p>\n

The joints in a rock mass condition, in a more or less evident way, the mechanical behaviour of the rock and the geotechnical model at the basis of any calculation.<\/p>\n

It is important to evaluate the stability condition correctly and to precisely describe the rock structure and joints, both in qualitative and quantitative terms.<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udf10 GMS is also available in Pay-per-Use mode on the GeoStru AI<\/a><\/span> platform, with direct access from the browser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":125845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[532,15],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-52","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-geology-software","7":"product_cat-geomechanics-software","8":"pa_product-professional-en","9":"pa_product-subscription-1-year-en","10":"description-off","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"downloadable","15":"virtual","16":"sold-individually","17":"taxable","18":"purchasable","19":"product-type-licensed"},"yoast_head":"\nGeoMechanical Survey - G.M.S.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"GMS (GeoMechanical Survey) represents and processes the geo-structural survey of rock masses joints performed in situ according to the ISRM recommendations.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geostru.eu\/en\/shop\/software-en\/geomechanics-software\/geomechanical-survey\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"GeoMechanical Survey - G.M.S.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"GMS (GeoMechanical Survey) represents and processes the geo-structural survey of rock masses joints performed in situ according to the ISRM recommendations.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.geostru.eu\/en\/shop\/software-en\/geomechanics-software\/geomechanical-survey\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"GeoStru EU\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GeoStruSoftware\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-05-16T04:45:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.geostru.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/GMS.gif\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"269\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/gif\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@geostru\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Price\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"€290.00 exc. 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