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...