17 18 Over the last decade, terrestrial laser scanning and digital terrestrial photogrammetry techniques have 19 been increasingly used in the geometrical characterization of rock slopes. These techniques provide 20 innovative remote sensing tools which overcome the frequent problem of rock slope inaccessibility. 21 Comprehensive datasets characterizing the structural geological setting and geo...

Muddy intercalation is one kind of rock’s secondary structural surface, where the failure of instability between strata occurred. Mechanical behaviour of muddy intercalation directly affects the stability of the rock mass. Starting from the micro-structure of Muddy intercalation, revealing its macroscopic mechanical characteristic is of great significance to the stability and optimization desig...

A 132.70-m-high tower (above foundation) has been successfully completed at Tenerife Island. The foundation of the tower, a 2-mthick reinforced concrete slab, is supported by jointed, vesicular and weathered basalt, and scoria. A three-dimensional, elastic finite element program has permitted to calculate the displacements of the tower and the stresses in the slab. The installation of rod exten...

Part of the chambers of the coalmine roadway in Western Inner Mongolia and Eastern Ningxia of China are in weakly consolidated soft rock formation. Taking the horse head engineering in Maiduoshan coal mine in the main level as an example, a new scheme was put forward to optimize the original supporting scheme. A three-dimensional numerical model of the project of horse head was set up. Accordin...

Underground caverns in rock salt deposits are the most secure disposal method and a type of gas-storing facility. Gas storage plays a vital role in ensuring that a strategic relationship is secured between an established energy infrastructure provider and a midstream energy company. The Fischells Brook area is a pillow-shaped body of salts located in the St. George's Bay area of southwest Newfo...

Goaf Frictional Ignition (GFI) poses a serious threat to the safety of underground coal mines, and has caused many underground fires and catastrophic explosions. This paper examined occurrences of GFI incidents and the underlying mechanisms of ignition source and environment. Most of these incidents were attributed to rock on rock frictional ignition. The eventuation of frictional ignition reli...

Concerted research efforts are being made to find new means of rock disintegration for more rapid, efficient excavation. Water jets, metallic jets and hypervelocity projectiles have been found to cut or break rock with varying degrees of efficiency depending upon several parameters, which are being defined by research in Russia, Britain and the United States. Optimum performance of high velocit...

In this study, the salt weathering effects on engineering properties and weight loss potential of three types of granitoid rocks were investigated. Sodium and magnesium sulfates tests were performed on core and aggregate samples. The cyclic salt weathering tests on core samples were done up to 90 cycles, while these tests on aggregate samples were done up to 40 cycles. The results showed that d...

Richard E. Frye*, John Slattery, Derrick F. MacFabe, Emma Allen-Vercoe, William Parker, John Rodakis, James B. Adams, Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown, Ellen Bolte, Stephen Kahler, Jana Jennings, Jill James, Carl E. Cerniglia and Tore Midtvedt Division of Neurology, Arkansas Children’s Hospital Research Institute, Little Rock, AR, USA; Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences,...

Determination of porosity, permeability, and pore volume compressibility of reservoir rocks and those variations with effective stress changes are of great interest in petroleum engineering. This paper has studied the influence of pore types of carbonate reservoir rocks on pore volume compressibility as well as Klinkenberg permeability and porosity at different stress values. In the current stu...