Abstract Rock anchors are used to stabilise large-scale infrastructure such as the foundations of high buildings or road cuts, and their failure could lead severe economic social consequences. A rock anchor can fail in one more following four modes; breakage tendon steel, tendon-grout bond failure, grout-rock mass failure. In current design, knowledge for first two modes is satisfactorily known...

Based on geological information of the Fengman dam, the seepage flow of the dam is analyzed. There are many different affecting factors on seepage problem, for example: the effect of the parameter of concrete, cut-off wall, the permeability coefficient of cut-off wall, drainage hole and grout curtains etc. On the basis of the research, the seepage control mechanism and effectiveness of the seep...

To evaluate the seismic performance of pre-cast concrete shear wall with vertical reinforcements spliced by two different grout ways, quasi-static tests of two concrete shear walls holed by prefabricated corrugated pipe and one concrete shear wall holed by drawing out the pipe were tested. The test results showed that the wall holed by prefabricated corrugated pipe was basically the same as the...

In this paper, we propose computational approaches for the zero forcing problem, the connected zero forcing problem, and the problem of forcing a graph within a specified number of timesteps. Our approaches are based on a combination of integer programming models and combinatorial algorithms, and include formulations for zero forcing as a dynamic process, and as a set-covering problem. We explo...