Heave of anhydritic claystone. Dealing with spatial heterogeneity

Eduardo E. Alonso, Anna Ramon

Methodology of stability calculation when the influential parameters are stochastic quantities

Stevan Ćorluka, Tina Đurić, Ksenija Đoković, Nikola Živanović, Jovana Janković Pantić

Rock slope stability analysis for planar failures with Úcar nonlinear criterion

Roberto Úcar, Norly Belandria, José G. Gutiérrez-Ch, Eliana P. Graterol, Rosibeth Toro, Luis Arlegui

Effect of immersion in acid solutions on the physico-mechanical properties of a porous limestone

Álvaro Rabat, María Elvira Garrido, Carlos Hidalgo-Signes, Víctor Martínez-Ibáñez

Experimental Assessment of the Role of Notch Thickness in Mode I Fracture Toughness in Four Rock Types

Miguel Herbón-Penabad, Yan Li, Marina Miranda, Jorge Castro, Jordi Delgado-Martín

Integrating Techniques to Assess Rock Mass Fracturing at 'La Peña del Castillo' and Its Role in Rockfall Studies

Mónica Martinez-Corbella, Adrián J. Riquelme-Guill, Juan López-Vinielles, Fco. Javier Férnandez-Naranjo, Pablo Vitali Miranda-García, Jorge Pedro Galve-Arnedo, Jose Luis Pérez-García, José María Gómez-López, Cristina Reyes-Carmona, Jose Miguel Azañon-Hernández, Rosa María Mateos-Ruiz, Roberto Sarro-Trigueros

Kariba Dam Rehabilitation Project - Rock Mechanics and Slope Stability in the excavations for the Plunge Pool Reshaping

Lucas Tardieux, Alberto Arigoni, Ilaria Fent, Brendan Quigley, Salvatore Liccardo, Jonneret Ariane, Patrick Sipatela, Avitol Nkweendenda, Sithembinkosi Mhlanga, Munyaradzi Munodawafa

The role of phyllite rock on slope failure in the A-7 highway (S Spain).

Jose Miguel Azañon, Jorge Pedro Galve, Patricia Ruano, Rosa María Mateos, Esther Puertas, Ricardo Castro, Cristina Reyes

Damage zone calculation according to Barton Q system to reduce dilution

Muammer BERBER, Kürşat TOPALOĞLU, Mehmet URCUN, İbrahim Doğu DOĞAN, Kemal AKTAŞ

Mineralogical alteration of Himachal gneiss due to weathering

Honey Kaushal, Narendra Kumar Samadhiya, Aditya Singh

Cross-bedding-rock-bolting (CBRB) technique for open rock slopes above ground – a new approach to rock reinforcement and support

Naval Singh

Excavating a tunnel in the vicinity of the Malmani dolomites in a deep gold mine of South Africa

Richard Masethe, Jomo Mtekwane, Carol Mgiba, Mpho Netshivhuyu

Correlations for rock mass classifications in tunnels excavated in fine-grained sedimentary lithologies

Jesús David Fernandez-Gutierrez, Heriberto Perez-Acebo, Hernan Gonzalo-Orden

Evaluation of in situ stresses in underground excavations by the drillhole detonation method

Miguel Ángel Berrocal

A new approach in the application of terminology for the rock mass geomechanical classification and its relation to stability design

Roque García, Wagdi Naime

The new incremental method for slope stability analysis of slopes of any geometric shape

Wagdi Naime, Roque García

Influence of thermal treatments of heating and cooling on the point load strength of Himalayan granite

Bikash Kumar Ram, Deepak Amban Mishra

Numerical Simulation of Flaw Inclination Effects on Rock-Like Specimen Behavior Using UDEC

Sameer Manish Lawankar, Gaurav Tiwari, Bharadwaj Pandit

A Comparative Analysis of Reliability Approaches for Support Estimation for Structurally Controlled Rock Slope Failure

Animesh Anand, Gaurav Tiwari

Evaluating the safety of brick masonry structures in open-cast coal mining areas against blast-induced vibrations

Monika Tewari, Bibhuti Bhusan Mandal, Anup Tiwari

Investigation on Rock Thermal Properties in Godavari Valley Coalfield, Telangana, India

Gurram Dileep, A.K. Tripathi, Labani Ray, Ch.S.N. Murthy

Correlating Schmidt hardness with point load strength index and Brazilian tensile strength for various rock types

Dimitrios Kotsanis, Pavlos Nomikos

Physical-mechanical characteristics of an andesite from Ecuadorian Andean Cordillera

Ángel Tamayo, Miguel Cano, Roberto Tomás

Incorporating subjective assessments of rock mass properties in the setting of rock engineering limit states design

Junzhe Liu, John P. Harrison

Capillary imbibition behaviour in volcanic rocks from Madeira Island, Portugal: preliminary results

Nora Cueto Mendoza, José Fernando Vieira de Sousa, João Pedro Perneta, Ronny Adrián Meza

Relation between crack geometrical parameters, fracture toughness and rock microstructure investigated using X-ray computed tomography

Leona Vavro, Martin Vavro, Daniela Řimnáčová, Kamil Souček

Analysis of the Erosion Susceptibility of heritage stones.

Javier Martínez-Martínez, Elena Fernández de Arévalo, Berta Ordóñez, Édgar Berrezueta, Miguel Gómez-Heras

Petrophysical multiproxy analysis of detrital Buntsandstein lithofacies for consideration as a potential CO2 storage formation

Javier Martínez Martínez, José Francisco Mediato Arribas, Édgar Berrezueta Alvarado, Iván Moreno González, Jesús García Crespo, Paula Fernández Canteli

Effect of clay sample dimension on cutting resistance and compressive strength

Srdjan Kostic

Lateral strain-controlled AUSBIT for Brazilian tests: insights from AE and DIC

Fauzan Yudho Pratomo, Murat Karakus, Giang D. Nguyen, Ha H. Bui

Impact of Various Pore Fluids on Mode I Fracture Toughness in Granite

Yan Li, Miguel Herbón-Penabad, Jordi Delgado-Martín, Andrea Muñoz-Ibáñez, Tonglu Li

Direct tensile testing of Moleanos limestone

Jorge Castro, Marina Miranda, Meagan H. Olson, Jon Justo

Advantages of ring test for tensile strength determination: a new empirical solution.

Ana Teresa Santos de Alencar, Mauro Muñiz-Menéndez, Rubén Galindo

The infrared-monitored rock cooling as a tool for porosity estimation in laboratory, a review

Simone Mineo, Giovanna Pappalardo

Comparison of the tensile elastic modulus estimated by the Brazilian test and the direct tensile test.

Ana Teresa Santos de Alencar, Mauro Muñiz-Menéndez, Rubén Galindo

Block model tests simulating the arching effect in the rock mass under the pull load of a rock anchor

Charlie Li, Bjarte Grindheim, Are Håvard Høien

Geomechanical classification graphical Q-slope (GQ-slope)

Luis Jordá, Cesar Borja

Acoustic Emission under Uniaxial Compression Loading and Physicomechanical Properties of the Lesser Himalayan and Siwalik Sandstones

Shubham Chajed, Aditya Singh

Equivalent Geological Strength Index approach with application to rock mass slope stability - a case study of Peña Colorada open-pit mine

Raúl Rodolfo Pozo García, José Antonio Samaniego Alcántara

Estimating rock stress in-situ – a new approach using the Rapid Step-Rate Test

Henki Ødegaard

SALT project: preliminary physical and mineralogical characterization of Alpine sulphates for geological and geotechnical modeling

Chiara Caselle, Sabrina Maria Rita Bonetto, Arianna Paschetto, Emanuele Costa, Gianluca Frasca, Pietro Mosca, Davide Vianello, Anna Ramon Tarragona, Eduardo Alonso Perez De Agreda, Patrick Baud

Preliminary study on the application of digital image correlation (DIC) method to determine the elastic constants of anisotropic rock – A numerical study

Yoonsung Lee, Juhyi Yim, Seungki Hong, Ki-Bok Min

Determining REV for jointed rock masses using finite numerical analysis

Jessica Ka Yi Chiu, Mehmet Sari

3D Finite Element and automatic constraints optimisation for geological stress modelling

Atefeh Dargahizarandi, Hamid Roshan, Hossein Masoumi

Flow Dynamics in Rock Masses: 3D modelling for Hazard Prediction and Resource Safeguarding

Massimo Coli, Roberto Emanuele Rizzo, Giacomo Risaliti, Isabella Serena Liso

Failure mechanisms of sea cliffs due to basal erosion

Maria Lia Napoli, Monica Barbero, Povanat Inkate

Assessment of the influence of discontinuity constitutive models for modelling fractured rock masses

Giuseppe Cammarata, Tuan Anh Bui, Vasileios Skordilis, Ronald Brinkgreve, Sandro Brasile

Time-Dependent Convergence Confinement Method for Estimation of Tunnel Support Loads in Squeezing Ground

Marte Gutierrez, Ketan Arora

Comparison of voussoir-beam stability assessments in underground rooms based on analytical and numerical methods

Ignacio Pérez-Rey, Leandro R. Alejano, Xian Estévez-Ventosa, Manuel A. González-Fernández, Maddalena Marchelli

Impact of confining pressure on loading modulus of synthetic isotropic specimens

Abtin Farshi Homayoun Rooz, Bre-Anne Sainsbury

Numerical study on the performance of integrated ground support system in potential burst-prone areas

Ceren Karatas Batan, Selahattin Akdag, Chengguo Zhang, Joung Oh, Charlie Chunlin Li, Matthew Holden, Peter Craig, Ismet Canbulat, Serkan Saydam

Small scale experiments for contour-boreholes blast

Carlota Rodriguez San Miguel, Nikolaos Petropoulos, Changping Yi

Update of Hoek & Marinos chart for predicting large deformation in tunnels

Baptiste Fenneteau, Olivier Deck, Rasool Mehdizadeh, François Laigle

A Simple Pseudo-Compact Tension (pCT) Test Apparatus to Measure Pure Tension Mode I Fracture toughness

Yan Li, Miguel Herbón-Penabad, Andrea Muñoz-Ibáñez, Tonglu Li, Jordi Delgado-Martín

Characterizing shear stiffness of bedding parallel fractures for sedimentary rocks

Adam D Lines, Klaus Thoeni, Olivier Buzzi, Anna Giacomini

The use of ultrasonic tomography to study the physical properties of granite rock

Iwona Stan-Kłeczek, Małgorzata Wróbel

Assessing of influence of heterogeneity on the shear strength of joints: an experimental study using artificial stone materials

Miguel Cano, Humberto Cabrera, José Luis Pastor, Lucía Buzón, Tiago Miranda

Strain analysis on jointed rock specimens submitted to triaxial compressive tests

Manuel A Gonzalez-Fernandez, Leandro R Alejano, Isabella G West, Gabriel Walton

Microestructure analysis using thin sections of fracture propagation in rocks

Jon Justo, Miguel Ángel Sánchez-Carro, Javier Escanciano, Marina Miranda, Jorge Castro

Analysis of repeated direct shear on a mated rock fracture

Liangchao Zou, Fredrik Johansson, Diego Mas Ivars, Vladimir Cvetkovic

Automatic identification of geometrical features representing rock discontinuities from 3D point clouds

Salvador Senent, Ramiro García-Luna, Miguel Antonio Barbero, David Jimenez, Jesús David Fernández, José Manuel Menendez, Rafael Jimenez

Role of apparent cohesion in DEM modeling for representing close to continuous joint sets

Argha Biswas, Mahendra Singh, Aditya Singh

Assessment of Gordon Power Station Cavern Long-Term Stability

David Sainsbury, Peter Hill, Kevin Stacey, Bre-Anne Sainsbury

Extending The Operational Life of Highways Rock Cuttings: a Case Study from the A477 Kilgetty

Thomas Lia, Adrian Koe

Quantifying Joint Roughness Coefficient (JRC) of Non-Planar Rock Joints: Consideration in Two Dimensions

Anastasia Chatzipanagiotou, Elias Bakasis, Avraam Konstantinidis, George Efremidis

Capturing unloading-induced brittle damage mechanism in hard rocks using a hybrid continuum-discontinuum numerical method

Fatemeh Amiri, Navid Bahrani, Andrea Lisjak, Omid Mahabadi, Johnson Ha

Modelling transversely isotropic mechanical behaviour of COx claystone with DEM

Juliette MICHALON, Benoît PARDOEN, Denis BRANQUE, Jana JABER, Gilles ARMAND

Energetic characteristics of chemical explosives and their resulting fragmentation

Saba Gharehdash, Milad Barzegar

Using Synthetic Rock Mass and Discrete Fracture Network approaches to study rock mass strength properties

Etienne Lavoine, Caroline Darcel, Diego Mas Ivars, Hossein Kasani, Philippe Davy

Factor of safety calculation for unstable rock slopes using finite element methods

Carlos Luis Garrido Garrido, Sergio Sánchez Rodríguez, Paula del Pozo García

Stress paths at the pile-rock interface of axially loaded rough rock-socketed piles

José G. Gutiérrez-Ch, Svetlana Melentijević, Salvador Senent, Rafael Jimenez

Effect of vertical pre reinforcement in ground on tunnel behavior

Natsumi Tamura, Yuto Tatebayashi, Tomohisa Amemiya, Kosuke Kawata, Nobuharu Isago

Basic concepts for the modification of the regulations for the support of underground works in Spain

Ricardo Lain, Luis Machuca

Dynamic performance testing and numerical modelling of the Falcon Bolt

Matthew Holden, Sela Akdag, Robert Galluzzi, Devan Macdonald, Chengguo Zhang, Joung Oh, Serkan Saydam, Anthony Bennett

The effect of an anisotropic in-situ stress on the bending moment in a yielding lining

Lorenzo Batocchioni, Valeria Gonzalez Rodriguez, Salvatore Miliziano

Reinforcement Capabilities of a Thin Polymeric Liner under Flexural Loading Applied in Hydrostone Plaster Beams

Gopi Krishna Dondapati, Debasis Deb, Ian Porter, Shivakumar Karekal

Dynamic Support and Quantitative Control Method of Tunnel Surrounding Rock Support System

Jianqiang Deng, Wei Cui, Yinbang Zhu, Yi Liu, Sanlin Du

Methodology of stability calculation when the influential parameters are stochastic quantities

Stevan Ćorluka, Tina Đurić, Ksenija Đoković, Nikola Živanović, Jovana Janković Pantić

Rock slope stability analysis for planar failures with Úcar nonlinear criterion

Roberto Úcar, Norly Belandria, José G. Gutiérrez-Ch, Eliana P. Graterol, Rosibeth Toro, Luis Arlegui

Effect of immersion in acid solutions on the physico-mechanical properties of a porous limestone

Álvaro Rabat, María Elvira Garrido, Carlos Hidalgo-Signes, Víctor Martínez-Ibáñez

Experimental Assessment of the Role of Notch Thickness in Mode I Fracture Toughness in Four Rock Types

Miguel Herbón-Penabad, Yan Li, Marina Miranda, Jorge Castro, Jordi Delgado-Martín

Integrating Techniques to Assess Rock Mass Fracturing at 'La Peña del Castillo' and Its Role in Rockfall Studies

Mónica Martinez-Corbella, Adrián J. Riquelme-Guill, Juan López-Vinielles, Fco. Javier Férnandez-Naranjo, Pablo Vitali Miranda-García, Jorge Pedro Galve-Arnedo, Jose Luis Pérez-García, José María Gómez-López, Cristina Reyes-Carmona, Jose Miguel Azañon-Hernández, Rosa María Mateos-Ruiz, Roberto Sarro-Trigueros

Kariba Dam Rehabilitation Project - Rock Mechanics and Slope Stability in the excavations for the Plunge Pool Reshaping

Lucas Tardieux, Alberto Arigoni, Ilaria Fent, Brendan Quigley, Salvatore Liccardo, Jonneret Ariane, Patrick Sipatela, Avitol Nkweendenda, Sithembinkosi Mhlanga, Munyaradzi Munodawafa

The role of phyllite rock on slope failure in the A-7 highway (S Spain).

Jose Miguel Azañon, Jorge Pedro Galve, Patricia Ruano, Rosa María Mateos, Esther Puertas, Ricardo Castro, Cristina Reyes

Damage zone calculation according to Barton Q system to reduce dilution

Muammer BERBER, Kürşat TOPALOĞLU, Mehmet URCUN, İbrahim Doğu DOĞAN, Kemal AKTAŞ

Mineralogical alteration of Himachal gneiss due to weathering

Honey Kaushal, Narendra Kumar Samadhiya, Aditya Singh

Cross-bedding-rock-bolting (CBRB) technique for open rock slopes above ground – a new approach to rock reinforcement and support

Naval Singh

Excavating a tunnel in the vicinity of the Malmani dolomites in a deep gold mine of South Africa

Richard Masethe, Jomo Mtekwane, Carol Mgiba, Mpho Netshivhuyu

Correlations for rock mass classifications in tunnels excavated in fine-grained sedimentary lithologies

Jesús David Fernandez-Gutierrez, Heriberto Perez-Acebo, Hernan Gonzalo-Orden

Evaluation of in situ stresses in underground excavations by the drillhole detonation method

Miguel Ángel Berrocal

A new approach in the application of terminology for the rock mass geomechanical classification and its relation to stability design

Roque García, Wagdi Naime

The new incremental method for slope stability analysis of slopes of any geometric shape

Wagdi Naime, Roque García

Influence of thermal treatments of heating and cooling on the point load strength of Himalayan granite

Bikash Kumar Ram, Deepak Amban Mishra

Numerical Simulation of Flaw Inclination Effects on Rock-Like Specimen Behavior Using UDEC

Sameer Manish Lawankar, Gaurav Tiwari, Bharadwaj Pandit

A Comparative Analysis of Reliability Approaches for Support Estimation for Structurally Controlled Rock Slope Failure

Animesh Anand, Gaurav Tiwari

Evaluating the safety of brick masonry structures in open-cast coal mining areas against blast-induced vibrations

Monika Tewari, Bibhuti Bhusan Mandal, Anup Tiwari

Investigation on Rock Thermal Properties in Godavari Valley Coalfield, Telangana, India

Gurram Dileep, A.K. Tripathi, Labani Ray, Ch.S.N. Murthy

Correlating Schmidt hardness with point load strength index and Brazilian tensile strength for various rock types

Dimitrios Kotsanis, Pavlos Nomikos

Physical-mechanical characteristics of an andesite from Ecuadorian Andean Cordillera

Ángel Tamayo, Miguel Cano, Roberto Tomás

Incorporating subjective assessments of rock mass properties in the setting of rock engineering limit states design

Junzhe Liu, John P. Harrison

Capillary imbibition behaviour in volcanic rocks from Madeira Island, Portugal: preliminary results

Nora Cueto Mendoza, José Fernando Vieira de Sousa, João Pedro Perneta, Ronny Adrián Meza

Relation between crack geometrical parameters, fracture toughness and rock microstructure investigated using X-ray computed tomography

Leona Vavro, Martin Vavro, Daniela Řimnáčová, Kamil Souček

Analysis of the Erosion Susceptibility of heritage stones.

Javier Martínez-Martínez, Elena Fernández de Arévalo, Berta Ordóñez, Édgar Berrezueta, Miguel Gómez-Heras

Petrophysical multiproxy analysis of detrital Buntsandstein lithofacies for consideration as a potential CO2 storage formation

Javier Martínez Martínez, José Francisco Mediato Arribas, Édgar Berrezueta Alvarado, Iván Moreno González, Jesús García Crespo, Paula Fernández Canteli

Effect of clay sample dimension on cutting resistance and compressive strength

Srdjan Kostic

Innovative swelling testing technique for anhydritic rock

Erich Pimentel

A study on suggesting candidate rock types for high-level radioactive waste disposal considering the geological characteristics of the Korean Peninsula

Dae-Sung Cheon, Kwangmin Jin, Joong Ho Synn, You Hong Kihm

Assessment of factors influencing the slaking behaviour of rocks from the Rhenodanubian Flysch Zone, Austria, using mineralogical-geomechanical laboratory tests

Markus Kaspar, Chrstine Latal, Thomas Frühwirt, Manfred Blümel

Assessment of rock stress diagrams involving intermediate principal stress effects

Minoru Sato, Takato Takemura

Estimating static elastic properties of the volcanic sequence in the Valley of Queretaro and implications to land subsidence related rupture

Mariano Cerca, Dora Carreon-Freyre, Carolina Ortega-Cervantes

Effect of initial crack length on mode I fracture toughness in pseudo-compact tension test

Shahrbanou Sayadi, Jordi Delgado-Martín, Miguel Herbón Penabad, Morteza Javadi

Back calculations of the excavation of Karavanke tunnel in Werfen formation

Saša Galuf, Julija Fux, Erazem Dolžan, dr. Nina Jurečič, dr. Vojkan Jovičić, dr. Vladimir Vukadin

Laboratory analysis of in situ stress through the Kaiser effect applied to the San Marcos tunnel. Astigarraga-Irun high-speed train

Joan Martinez-Bofill, Joaquin Souto, Eduard Vives, Josu Rodriguez Duque, Iñaki Ibarbia, Lluís Rodríguez

Evaluation of the Applicability of Statistical Tools for Developing Stress-Depth Relationships for the Canadian Shield

Behzad Dastjerdy, Ali Saeidi, Shahriyar Heidarzadeh

Expansive anhydritic claystones. The significance of rock structure

Anna Ramon-Tarragona, Eduardo E. Alonso

Multiscale physical and mechanical characterization of a sandstone used as armourstone

Paolo Tommasi, Tatiana Rotonda

The possible role of the bio-erosion on the stability of sea cliffs in Ryukyu Archipelago

Sinem Ugur, Ömer Aydan

Stability assessment of the planned Hemja-Patichaur road tunnel in Nepal passing through Weakness Zones

Bimala Piya Shrestha, Krishna Kanta Panthi

Numerical analysis of impact-induced rock fragmentation in underground mining

Álvaro Vergara Barría, Raúl Fuentes

Dynamic Characterization of Fine-Grained Sandstone Rock under the Influence of Self-Induced Crack.

Rabin Kumar Samal, Sunita Mishra

Evolution of blast induced rock mass damage prediction techniques in underground mining

Italo Andres Onederra, Yiran Zhu

Development of in-situ rock stress map of south-western part of Norway

Sanyam Ghimire, Krishna Panthi

3D large-scale numerical modelling of room and pillar underground excavation in light of in-situ geomechanical measurement

Krzysztof Fuławka, Roman Kołodziej, Lech Stolecki, Marcin Szumny, Piotr Mertuszka, Izabela Jaśkiewicz-Proć

To remove, or not to remove outliers, that is the question.

Beverly Yang, Josephine Morgenroth, Lindsey Heagy, Davide Elmo

Introducing the concept of fracture index for performance prediction of hard rock TBMs

Saffet Yagiz, Jafar Hassanpour, Jamal Rostami

Excavation and support strategies adopted for severe squeezing and creep conditions during the construction of the Cabanasas mine access ramp

José M. Galera, Manuel De Cabo, Francesc X. Caballero

Conglomerate sea stack failure prediction comparing symmetric and asymmetric erosion

Cassidy Teodoro-Neville, Marie-Hélène Lapointe, Jennifer Jane Day

Applicability of DFN model fitted by point cloud data in rock mass classification tasks

Dragana Slavković, Miloš Marjanović

Behavior of Grouted Rock Bolts under varying Stress - Factor of Safety in Tunnel Contractual specifications

Akx Malik