With the implementation of regional coordinated development strategy, traffic flow has grown explosively. The construction a larger tunnel section becomes an effective way to solve highway network’s insufficient transport capability problem. Currently, there is little research on factors influencing and methods calculating loose pressure in surrounding rock mass for tunnels with super-large cro...

At 14:28 (Beijing time) on 12 May 2008, the catastrophic Ms 8.0 Wenchuan earthquake occurred just west of the Sichuan basin, China, causing severe damage and numerous casualties. It also triggered a large number of landslides, rock avalanches, debris flows etc. Some of the landslides formed natural dams in the rivers, with the potential secondary hazard of subsequent flooding. Through the inter...

Landslide surges pose a serious threat to the ecological environment and human life safety. Based on rock structure mechanics water sediment dynamics, considering additional resistance caused by interference of loose landslide particles flow structure, this paper deduces calculation formula loose-rock when entering water. It modifies velocity (ASCE) recommended American Society Civil Engineers....

for non-darcy flow in submerged porous media a one- dimensional mathematical model has been developed. rockfill detention dams are one of these porous media that comprised of relatively homogenous coarse rockfill which can be used to reduce flood discharge and hydrograph peak. in this research the focus was on the rockfill detention dams in submerged condition. the existence of overtopping rock...

The calcarenites carbonate rocks of the Quaternary ridges, which extend along the northwestern Mediterranean coastal plain of Egypt, represent an excellent model for the transformation of loose sediments to real sedimentary rocks by the different stages of meteoric diagenesis. The depositional and diagenetic fabrics of the rocks, in addition to the strata orientation, highly affect their ultima...

The study objective was to investigate the physiological effects of weaning on beef calves and identify a panel of blood-based welfare biomarkers. On the day (d) of weaning (d 0), 16 spring-born, single-suckled, beef bull calves that previously grazed with their dams at pasture, were assigned to one of two treatments: (1) control (n = 8), calves were loose-housed with their dam, (2) weaned (n =...

Joints, which are usually located in the abutments of dams, play a vital role seismic stability evaluation arch dams. This paper presents comprehensive numerical investigation influence uplift pressure joints on response an dam, with focus interaction between dam and rock wedges. For this study, Bakhtiari having one wedge at each abutment, was chosen as case three distinct finite element models...