The construction of cover systems on decommissioned tailings storage facilities and waste rock dumps can represent one of the largest cost components of a mine closure project. There have been great advances in the understanding of the hydrology of cover systems in recent years, but some uncertainties in long-term performance remain. This paper describes some of the changes in engineering chara...

Geotechnical Engineering is a branch of Civil Engineering which deals with man made materials (concrete, steel, etc) on top of or as inclusions into soils or rocks which are naturally made. The process of interaction between man made materials and the soils and rocks is through methods of construction which is time consuming. A construction process could take a week to several years, through wh...

Complex signals present 2 outstanding questions: why do they exist and how are they interpreted? Multiple signals can be beneficial for the increased diversity or redundancy of information they convey; however, it is not clear how receivers use this additional information. I investigated a lekking Malawi cichlid fish that builds polymorphic bowers; some males build their sand spawning craters o...

In the late 1970s politicians and civil servants were acutely aware of the chronic decline of the manufacturing sector as a source of employment in Britain. At a time of fear of mass unemployment, sources of new work were urgently sought. Biotechnology had been promoted by visionaries since the early twentieth century. With oil prices soaring, its potential to produce substitutes for petroleum ...

To compute the stability of underground engineering, a constitutive model of surrounding rock must be identified. Many constitutive models for rock mass have been proposed. In this model identification study, a generalized constitutive law for an elastic-plastic constitutive model is applied. Using the generalized constitutive law, the problem of model identification is transformed to a problem...

Texture is commonly used feature in most of the content-based image retrieval systems. This texture retrieval ability can be also applied to rock texture. The retrieval of the rock texture is a demanding task because of special character of rock. In this paper some existing contentbased image retrieval systems are tested with a sample set representing clearly different rock images. The recall a...

Experimental studies were conducted on the changes of the potential differences in different directions during the uniaxial compression on limestone samples parallel and normal to the bedding plane. In the test, electric current was supplied at both ends of the samples, and concurrent measurement was conducted in four measuring lines at a 45-degree angle to each other. First, the change laws of...