Abstract Rock anchors are used to stabilise large scale infrastructures. Failure of rock could threaten the stability and lead severe economic social consequences. The design is based on four principal failure modes, which breakage steel tendon, tendon-grout interface failure, grout-rock mass around anchor. current dimensioning methods uncertain due limited knowledge bond strength failure. meth...

Geophysical methods for local rock burst prediction are currently being developed along two lines: improving recording equipment and data processing methods. Progress in developing is constrained by the lack of informative prognostic models that describe condition mass, process mass fracturing, phenomena can substantiate choice both criteria test parameters give an estimate time remaining until...

To research the internal load transfer behavior and failure mechanism of a bird’s nest anchor cable anchoring structure based on pull-out test, bond-slip model is established basis statistical damage theory, distribution formula shear stress at anchorage agent–rock interface deduced. Combined with theoretical analysis, pulling out test particle flow code (PFC) numerical simulation as well axial...

Some of the geotechnical parameters used in the analysis may not be accurately measured directly from laboratory tests due to effects of sample disturbance and errors of tests. The back analysis or the observational method are thus often applied to determine the representative and/or dominant strength parameters based on field observations in practice. Based on the Hoek-Brown failure criterion,...

the rock masses in a construction site of underground cavern are generally not continuous, due to the presence of discontinuities, such as bedding, joints, faults, and fractures. the performance of an underground cavern is principally ruled by the mechanical behaviors of the discontinuities in the vicinity of the cavern. during underground excavation, many surrounding rock failures have close r...

the paper is concerned with the hydrogeological appraisal of the proposed mining operations in thethar lignite field in sindh, pakistan. the thar coalfield covers an area of approximately 9000km2 andcontains three lignite seams lying at depth of 130m to 250 m. in the thar lignite field, the presence ofthree main aquifers induces pore pressure in the rock mass surrounding the lignite seams and m...

Measuring the elastic modulus of in-situ rock masses over scales of tens of meters remains an important challenge in experimental rock mechanics. We present a new approach using ambient resonance measurements of freestanding rock masses to identify vibrational modes, which are then matched with numerical models implementing bulk, globally representative material properties. The result is an exp...

The subject of this thesis forms part of a research program dealing with fractured rock masses being undertaken by the "Centre de Géologie de l'Ingénieur (CGI)" from the "Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (ENSMP)" and the "Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (ENPC)". In fractured rock masses, it is very difficult to undertake engineering works without analysing, beforehand, the f...