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Nicholas R. MacDonald, Timothy R. M. Packulak and Jennifer J. Day
Direct shear (DS) is a common geotechnical laboratory test used to determine strength and deformation properties of rock discontinuities, such as normal and shear stiffness, peak and residual shear strength, and dilation. These are used as inputs for dis...
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George Xiroudakis, George Saratsis and Ilias Lazos
This paper uses the displacement discontinuity method, one of the boundary element methods, to solve two major engineering problems. The first one addresses the safe design of underground excavations in fractured rock masses. The implemented method was u...
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Sergio Leyva, Noelia Cruz-Pérez, Jesica Rodríguez-Martín and Juan C. Santamarta
Due to their genesis, volcanic rocks present some singularities that make their geotechnical characteristics significantly different from other more common types of massifs, such as sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. The formation mechanisms of volcanic ...
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Xiali Kong, Yonghua Xia, Xuequn Wu, Zhihe Wang, Kaihua Yang, Min Yan, Chen Li and Haoyu Tai
It is fundamental to acquire accurate point cloud information on rock discontinuities efficiently and comprehensively when evaluating the stability of rock masses. Taking a high and steep cliff as an example, we combined 3D laser scanning and UAV photogr...
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Lucía Inés Martín,Denis Marchal,Silvia Barredo,Claudio Naides,Silvia Blanco
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The fissility is the ability of some rocks to split along relatively smooth surfaces parallel to the bedding. This property observed mostly in fine-grained rocks is particularly expressed in outcrops, where rocks are subjected to weathering processes. Mo...
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Maria Migliazza, Maria Teresa Carriero, Andrea Lingua, Emanuele Pontoglio and Claudio Scavia
Geostructural rock mass surveys and the collection of data related to discontinues provide the basis for the characterization of rock masses and the study of their stability conditions. This paper describes a multiscale approach that was carried out usin...
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Lingfeng He, John Coggan, Mirko Francioni and Matthew Eyre
This paper proposes a novel method to incorporate unfavorable orientations of discontinuities into machine learning (ML) landslide prediction by using GIS-based kinematic analysis. Discontinuities, detected from photogrammetric and aerial LiDAR surveys, ...
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Mario Bacic, Lovorka Libric, Danijela Juric Kacunic and Meho Sa?a Kovacevic
Having in mind uncertainties linked with the nature of rock masses, it is a challenge for geotechnical engineers to characterize them in a credible manner, especially if the rock mass in question is a notoriously complex karst with its distinctive featur...
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George Papathanassiou, Adrián Riquelme, Theofilos Tzevelekis and Evaggelos Evaggelou
Rockfall consists one of the most harmful geological phenomena for the man-made environment. In order to evaluate the rockfall hazard, a variety of engineering geological studies should be realized, starting from conducting a detailed field survey and en...
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Marianna Cangemi, Maria Grazia Di Figlia, Rocco Favara and Marcello Liotta
The circulation of groundwater is influenced by several factors, including permeability changes due to the dynamics of the stress field acting along tectonic discontinuities. Open faults can act as preferential pathways for the escape of crustal and subc...
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