Advances in Engineering Geology of Rocks and Rock Masses

The effect of engineering geology on the rock load and squeezing potential in Lot2 of Imamzadeh-Hashem tunnel

The load entering from the ground surrounding on the tunnel’s lining is one of the effective parameters in the designation of a tunnel. The amount of this parameter, which is called Rock load in a rocky environment, depends on several factors such as the overburden thickness, geological and geomechanical conditions and the depth of tunnel. In the present study, the amount of rock load for the L...

Constitutive Modeling of Rocks, Rock Joints and Rock Masses including Strain Softening Behaviour

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...

GEOLOGY OF THE PRE-TERTIARY ROCKS IN THE ROCK CREEK-GREENWOOD AREA (82312) By James

Interactive multimedia rocks for geology

This paper presents the Ruskin Rocks project which is developing a rock instrument, making use of interactive multimedia to augment the musical characteristics of stones. Several historical rock instruments, which inspired the building of this instrument – iRock – are discussed. Fundamental vibration theory is applied to understand the musical nature of the rocks, and empirical data presented t...

Optimized Mamdani fuzzy models for predicting the strength of intact rocks and anisotropic rock masses

Development of accurate and reliable models for predicting the strength of rocks and rock masses is one of the most common interests of geologists, civil and mining engineers and many others. Due to uncertainties in evaluation of effective parameters and also complicated nature of geological materials, it is difficult to estimate the strength precisely using theoretical approaches. On the other...