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Brittle Failure Modes and Mechanisms in Foliated Rock Under Uniaxial Compression: Laboratory Testing and Particle Flow Modeling
Uniaxial compression tests were conducted on quartz mica schist in a laboratory to study the brittle failure modes of foliated rocks. By focusing on the crack evolution pattern, the failure mechanisms of folia...
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Optimizing Method of Main Caverns in Large Underground Water-Sealed Storage Cavern
Underground water-sealed storage cavern is an important way for petroleum strategic reserve in China, which owns lots of outstanding advantages, such as low operating costs, high safety, and land resource cons...
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Fuzzy C-Means Cluster Analysis Based on Variable Length String Genetic Algorithm for the Grou** of Rock Discontinuity Sets
Discontinuities have huge impact on civil and mining engineering. To understand the spatial features of discontinuities, it is common to group them into different sets based on orientation. In this paper, a ne...
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Evaluating landslide susceptibility based on cluster analysis, probabilistic methods, and artificial neural networks
In this study, the cluster analysis (CA), probabilistic methods, and artificial neural networks (ANNs) are used to predict landslide susceptibility. The Geographic Information System (GIS) is used as the basic...
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Anisotropy of quartz mica schist based on quantitative extraction of fabric information
In this study, comprehensive laboratory experiments, such as thin-section and optical section analyses and P wave velocity and uniaxial compression tests, are performed on three types of quartz mica schist sam...
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Deformation and Failure Response Pattern of Schistosed Surrounding Rock to Its Anisotropic Properties
The anisotropy of schist usually has a complex influence on stability of tunnel surrounding rock. In this study, the schist anisotropy and its variation with the confining pressure are analyzed by the triaxial...
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An adaptive sampling approach to reduce uncertainty in slope stability analysis
An adaptive sampling approach is proposed, which can sample spatially varying shear strength parameters efficiently to reduce uncertainty in the slope stability analysis. This approach employs a limit equilibr...
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Calculation Method and Distribution Characteristics of Fracture Hydraulic Aperture from Field Experiments in Fractured Granite Area
Knowledge of the fracture hydraulic aperture and its relation to the mechanical aperture and normal stress is urgently needed in engineering construction and analytical research at the engineering field scale....
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Stability Assessment and Protection Design for the Rock Filling of Dum** Site in Ravine
During the construction of cities in mountain area, plenty of human waste-dump is produced because of the topographic conditions. In order to solve the problem of site leveling and rock spoils placing, the dum...
