ABSTRACT: A number of civil engineering projects which include river valley projects, transportation projects and metro rail projects are under construction in India. Various structures, such as underground openings, powerhouse caverns, metro tunnels, dam foundations and slopes are increasingly located in/on rock formations. The rock in its natural state is a very complex material especially wh...

Measurement of rock mass discontinuities was the key for rock mass 3D network simulation, seepage analysis, and stability analysis. In this paper, a non-contact rock mass discontinuities detection method based on the single camera binocular three-dimensional reconstruction theory was presented. This method provided an effective way for grouping rock mass discontinuities and calculation the disc...

EDITORIAL article Front. Earth Sci., 07 October 2022Sec. Geohazards and Georisks Volume 10 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.1047612

The rock mass is exposed to stress changes after the excavation made for construction of infrastructures such as roads, railways, hydropower and irrigation projects. expansion roads requires slope cuts which cause natural discontinuities daylight leading failure different types magnitudes. tunnels underground caverns infrastructure projects will pass through with varying cover stability challen...