The study of rock fractures is essential in evaluating stability of underground structures, understanding earthquakes, and assessing storage and transport of oil and gas in rock formations. Geophysical monitoring techniques, particularly compressional and shear wave propagation, can probe the internal structure of rock and fractures remotely and nondestructively and can provide insight into fra...

This paper describes the interim results of a study to characterize discontinuous rock masses using 3D laser scanning data. One of the main advantages of this method is that now an unbiased, rapid and accurate discontinuity analysis can be done. With 3D laser scanning it is now also possible to measure rock faces whose access is restricted or rock slopes along highways or railway lines where wo...

Slope stability is one of the most important topics engineering geology with a background more than 300 years. So far, various assessment techniques have been developed which include range simple evaluations, planar failure, limit state criteria, equilibrium analysis, numerical methods, hybrid and high-order approaches are implemented in two-dimensional (2D) three-dimensional (3D) space. In mea...