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    A Semi-automatic Approach to Quantifying the Geological Strength Index Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning

    The geological strength index (GSI) plays an important role in the quality evaluation and stability analysis of rock mass. Traditional methods for quantitatively estimating GSI are often subjective, time-consu...

    Yunfeng Ge, Qian Chen, Huiming Tang, Bei Cao in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering (2023)

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    An Efficient Approach to Determine the Shear Damage Zones of Rock Joints Using Photogrammetry

    Determination of the shear failure zones of rock joints leads to a better understanding of their shear mechanical behavior. In this paper, we present a low-cost approach to determining the shear damage zones o...

    Ding **a, Cheng He, Huiming Tang, Yunfeng Ge in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering (2022)

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    Rock Discontinuities Identification from 3D Point Clouds Using Artificial Neural Network

    Rock discontinuities fundamentally impact the mechanical and hydraulic behaviors of a rock mass, and thus it is a critically important task to characterize the geometrical parameters of these rock discontinuit...

    Yunfeng Ge, Bei Cao, Huiming Tang in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering (2022)

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    Mechanical energy evolution in the propagation of rock avalanches using field survey and numerical simulation

    Rock avalanches often cause many casualties and considerable property damage due to hypermobility. To better understand the propagation process of rock avalanches, the mechanical energy evolution was investiga...

    Yunfeng Ge, Huiming Tang, Changdong Li in Landslides (2021)

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    Estimation of Joint Roughness Coefficient from Three-Dimensional Discontinuity Surface

    Guangcheng Zhang, Murat Karakus, Huiming Tang in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering (2017)

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    Investigation of Stability of the Critical Rock Blocks that Initiated the Jiweishan Landslide in China

    The objective of the paper is to investigate the initiation of the Jiweishan landslide by simulating the field geological conditions around and inside a selected critical rock block and then to study its stabi...

    Pinnaduwa H. S. W. Kulatilake, Yunfeng Ge in Geotechnical and Geological Engineering (2014)