Thermal pretreatments of rock, such as conventional heating and microwave irradiation, have received considerable attention recently a viable method improving the energy efficiency mining processes that involve rock fracturing. This study presents numerical analysis effects thermal shock on mechanical properties hard, granite-like rock. More specifically, aim is to numerically assess reduction ...

It has been observed in field and laboratory conditions that failure of intact hard rocks at highly confined compression can be accompanied by abnormal violence. Under both of these conditions the failure process is associated with shear rupture development. David Ortlepp, who acquired more than 40 years of experience in the study of shear rupture rockbursts in deep and ultra-deep South African...

Abstract In the present work we discuss results of a number Schmidt hammer tests (total impacts N > 2,400) that were performed in situ on rock outcrops different lithology (marl, calcareous marl, limestone, sandstone, quartz sandstone and rhyolite) occur Italy. Firstly, specific field procedure to choose reference value rebound index adopted calculate UCS intact is suggested. A relationship ...

Abstract Accurate description of the failure strength behaviors rock materials, including intact rocks and jointed masses, is essential for engineering design construction. First, a novel three-dimensional (3D) version Hoek–Brown (HB) criterion proposed in this paper. A stress weighting factor n used to describe effects intermediate minimum principal stresses. The 3D validated using six sets po...

Evolutionary expansion of the human neocortex is partially attributed to a relative abundance of neural stem cells in the fetal brain called outer radial glia (oRG). oRG cells display a characteristic division mode, mitotic somal translocation (MST), in which the soma rapidly translocates toward the cortical plate immediately prior to cytokinesis. MST may be essential for progenitor zone expans...

Our previous studies demonstrated that Wnt/GSK-3/β-catenin and mTOR signaling are necessary to stimulate proliferative processes in adult human β-cells. Direct inhibition of GSK-3, that engages Wnt signaling downstream of the Wnt receptor, increases β-catenin nuclear translocation and β-cell proliferation but results in lower insulin content. Our current goal was to engage canonical and non-can...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: bedrock fractures threshold slopes landslides landscape evolution erosion Bedrock fracturing and rock strength are widely believed to influence landscape morphology and erosional resistance. Yet, understanding of the quantitative relationship between rock-mass strength and landscape evolution remains limited. Here we present a new application of seismic refractio...

fracture mapping of late permian-early triassic flat-lying sedimentary rocks in the sydney basin,new south wales, australia, shows that joints developed originally in extension were faulted in subsequentevents. joints with a regional distribution fall into two (early and late) formed groups. group i joints propagatedhorizontally and never interfered with each other. these joints were subsequent...