XIAO Guo-feng, CHEN Cong-xin. An analytic method for geometrical construction of convex polyhedron block[J]. 2017, 38(6): 1657-1665.DOI: 10.16285/j.rsm.2017.06.014.
An analytic method for geometrical construction of convex polyhedron block
Description and construction of blocks play a significant role in the analysis of rock mass stability.The equation representation is an effective approach to describe all possible blocks geometry.However
this approach has not been applied to block construction in the literature.Although it is possible to construct arbitrarily complex block geometry
it is hard to obtain a precise geometrical information of blocks
due to the lack of appropriate parametric description method.Therefore
we proposed a geometric construction method for convex polyhedron block.First
an equation representation for convex polyhedron was established by defining two input variables of boundary planes of polyhedron.Then
a simplified algorithm was developed to solve the convex polyhedron equation and a procedure was further presented to identify these two input variables.Finally
an analytic method was proposed for geometrical construction of convex block by introducing four control variables.A numerical example was conducted to verify the effectiveness for parametric representation and geometrical construction of block geometry in engineering rock mass.