Various geological processes such as tectonic activities develop fractures and discontinuities in the rock mass body; these, in turn, form blocks with different shapes and sizes in the rock mass body. Accurate understanding of these blocks' geometry is essential in different domains of rock and mine engineering such as determination of yield in quarries, optimization of fragmentation energy, th...

The objective of this paper is to present a new rock mass classification system which can be appropriate for rock slope stability assessment. In this paper an evaluation model based on combining the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the Fuzzy Delphi method (FDM)was presented for assessing slope rockmass quality estimates. This research treats the slope rockmass classification as a group deci...

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...

Recently a Type Ic supernova, SN 1998bw, was discovered coincident with a gamma-ray burst, GRB 980425. The supernova had unusual radio, optical, and spectroscopic properties. Among other things, it was especially bright for a Type Ic and rose quickly to maximum. When modeled in the usual way as a spherically symmetric explosion, this requires a large mass of Ni, 0.45 0.60 M⊙, a quite massive st...

Sturzstroms are a rare category of rock avalanche that travel vast horizontal distances with only a comparatively small vertical drop in height. Their extraordinary mobility appears to be a consequence of sustained fluid-like behavior during motion, which persists even for driving stresses well below those normally associated with granular flows. One mechanism that may explain this temporary in...

Purpose and task is to study the nature of formation force field in heel region by interaction upper end parts adjacent charges.Research results. Based on fact that outside zone plastic deformations created stresses close elastic, analytical studies used a simplified computing apparatus based known data shape numerical values time parameters single pulse from cylindrical charge given mass lengt...

The rocks are formed through very complex processes and the complex behaviour of rock masses is dominated by the planes of weaknesses . Rock mass consists of intact rock and discontinuities. Many rocks show strain softening behaviour under loads. In this paper, the constitutive models for intact rocks and rock joints are presented. These form the basis for the development of constitutive models...

Abstract Deformation modulus of rock mass (Em) is an important parameter for the analysis and design mining engineering projects. However, field tests measuring deformation are difficult, time-consuming, capital intensive. This has led to development numerous empirical models estimating modulus, which in different forms scattered literature. The available literature use types inputs. Therefore,...

We propose a simple model for the bolometric light curve of type Ia supernova exploding in a dense circumstellar (CS) envelope to describe the light curves of supernovae 2002ic and 1997cy. The modeling shows that at the radius ∼ 7×10 15 cm the density of CS envelopes around both supernovae is similar. The mass of the CS envelope around SN 1997cy is close to 5 M ⊙ , while the characteristic time...