Copper mining produces significant amounts of associate waste, leading to the construction huge waste dumps in highly seismic zone Andes Mountains. To analyze stability these deposits, it is necessary characterize mechanical properties materials laboratory, which quite difficult due large size particles composing structures. In this study, global mine analyzed by means discrete element simulati...

Masonry structures are complex systems that require a thorough and detailed knowledge and information regarding their behaviour under seismic excitations. Appropriate modelling of a masonry structure is a prerequisite for a reliable earthquake resistant design or assessment. However, modelling a real structure to a robust quantitative (mathematical) representation is a very difficult, complex a...

Abstract As the construction industry develops, unique unconventional methods of improving seismic stability buildings are used. One these is isolation using special isolating supports. Rubber steel supports with high damping ability can improve building by 1.5 times on average. Since constructed lift-slab method was set at up to 7 points, we expect increase it 8-9 points through installation r...

[1] We report on laboratory experiments which investigate interactions between aseismic slip, stress changes, and seismicity on a critically stressed fault during the nucleation of stick-slip instability. We monitor quasi-static and dynamic changes in local shear stress and fault slip with arrays of gages deployed along a simulated strike-slip fault (2m long and 0.4m deep) in a saw cut sample o...