Search Results - "Engineering geology"

Geohazards in the three Gorges Reservoir Area, China – Lessons learned from decades of research by Tang, Huiming, Wasowski, Janusz, Juang, C. Hsein

“…The impoundment of the 660-km long reservoir behind the huge Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydropower station, increased regional seismicity and…”
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Experimental investigation on mechanical behavior and particle crushing of calcareous sand retrieved from South China Sea by Wu, Yang, Li, Neng, Wang, Xinzhi, Cui, Jie, Chen, Yulong, Wu, Yihang, Yamamoto, Haruyuki

“…Calcareous sand containing weak particles originated from the deposition of skeletal residue of marine organisms is susceptible to significant particle…”
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A phase-field modeling approach of fracture propagation in poroelastic media by Zhou, Shuwei, Zhuang, Xiaoying, Rabczuk, Timon

“…This paper proposes a phase field model for fracture in poroelastic media. The porous medium is modeled based on the classical Biot poroelasticity theory and…”
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Review of published rockburst events and their contributing factors by Keneti, Ali, Sainsbury, Bre-Anne

“…Through a review of selected published case study data from around the world, in situ conditions that contribute to rockburst events have been identified. This…”
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Scientific challenges in disaster risk reduction for the Sichuan–Tibet Railway by Cui, Peng, Ge, Yonggang, Li, Shaojun, Li, Zhenhong, Xu, Xiwei, Zhou, Gordon G.D., Chen, Huayong, Wang, Hao, Lei, Yu, Zhou, Libo, Yi, Shujian, Wu, Chunhao, Guo, Jian, Wang, Qi, Lan, Hengxing, Ding, Mingtao, Ren, Junjie, Zeng, Lu, Jiang, Yuanjun, Wang, Yan

“…Traversing the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau, the Sichuan–Tibet Railway is by far the most difficult railway project in the world. The Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau…”
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Bio-remediation of desiccation cracking in clayey soils through microbially induced calcite precipitation (MICP) by Liu, Bo, Zhu, Cheng, Tang, Chao-Sheng, Xie, Yue-Han, Yin, Li-Yang, Cheng, Qing, Shi, Bin

“…Desiccation cracking is a common natural phenomenon in clayey soils, considerably degrading their mechanical and hydraulic properties. Typical remediation…”
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Temperature-dependent mechanical behaviour of Australian Strathbogie granite with different cooling treatments by Kumari, W.G.P., Ranjith, P.G., Perera, M.S.A., Chen, B.K., Abdulagatov, I.M.

“…Understanding the mechanical behaviour of reservoir rock under different temperatures with different cooling conditions is necessary for safe and effective…”
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A case study on large deformation failure mechanism of deep soft rock roadway in Xin'An coal mine, China by Yang, Sheng-Qi, Chen, Miao, Jing, Hong-Wen, Chen, Kun-Fu, Meng, Bo

“…Large deformation of soft rock roadway has always been a major difficulty in deep mining practices. This paper describes a case study of the failure mechanisms…”
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A comparative study of different machine learning methods for reservoir landslide displacement prediction by Wang, Yankun, Tang, Huiming, Huang, Jinsong, Wen, Tao, Ma, Junwei, Zhang, Junrong

“…This paper compares the performance of five popular machine learning methods, namely, particle swarm optimization–extreme learning machine (PSO–ELM), particle…”
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Effect of water on mechanical behavior and acoustic emission response of sandstone during loading process: phenomenon and mechanism by Li, Hongru, Qiao, Yafei, Shen, Rongxi, He, Manchao, Cheng, Tai, Xiao, Yingming, Tang, Jie

“…In this paper, a series of uniaxial compression experiments were carried out on sandstone with varying water contents, and acoustic emission (AE) signals were…”
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Liquefaction within a bedding fault: Understanding the initiation and movement of the Daguangbao landslide triggered by the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake (Ms = 8.0) by Cui, Shenghua, Pei, Xiangjun, Jiang, Yao, Wang, Gonghui, Fan, Xuanmei, Yang, Qingwen, Huang, Runqiu

“…The Daguangbao landslide was the most catastrophic mass movement triggered by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake with a magnitude scale of Ms. 8.0. The landslide,…”
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Energy evolution characteristics of hard rock during triaxial failure with different loading and unloading paths by Li, Diyuan, Sun, Zhi, Xie, Tao, Li, Xibing, Ranjith, P.G.

“…Triaxial compression tests were conducted on fine-to-medium–grained granite specimens, with initial confining pressures of 10, 20, 40, and 60MPa, under various…”
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Distribution and characteristics of landslide in Loess Plateau: A case study in Shaanxi province by Zhuang, Jianqi, Peng, Jianbing, Wang, Gonghui, Javed, Iqbal, Wang, Ying, Li, Wei

“…Every year about one third of the geohazards in China occur in the Loess Plateau causing human loss, damaging gas and oil pipelines, destroying highways,…”
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AI-powered landslide susceptibility assessment in Hong Kong by Wang, Haojie, Zhang, Limin, Luo, Hongyu, He, Jian, Cheung, R.W.M.

“…Landslide susceptibility assessment is essential for regional landslide risk assessment and mitigation. Most past studies involved cell-based analysis that…”
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Early-warning of rock burst in coal mine by low-frequency electromagnetic radiation by Qiu, Liming, Liu, Zhentang, Wang, Enyuan, He, Xueqiu, Feng, Junjun, Li, Baolin

“…Rock burst is one of the major geological hazards in coal mines and is difficult to prevent. Faced with this problem, the low-frequency electromagnetic…”
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Integration of Sentinel-1 and ALOS/PALSAR-2 SAR datasets for mapping active landslides along the Jinsha River corridor, China by Liu, Xiaojie, Zhao, Chaoying, Zhang, Qin, Lu, Zhong, Li, Zhenhong, Yang, Chengsheng, Zhu, Wu, Liu-Zeng, Jing, Chen, Liquan, Liu, Chuanjin

“…Landslide hazards along the Jinsha River corridor pose serious threats to the lives and property of local residents and can affect the safety of hydropower…”
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What we have learned from the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake and its aftermath: A decade of research and challenges by Fan, Xuanmei, Juang, C. Hsein, Wasowski, Janusz, Huang, Runqiu, Xu, Qiang, Scaringi, Gianvito, van Westen, Cees J., Havenith, Hans-Balder

“…The 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan Earthquake (Sichuan, China) was possibly the largest and most destructive recent earthquake as far as the geo-hazards are concerned…”
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Water saturation effects on dynamic behavior and microstructure damage of sandstone: Phenomena and mechanisms by Cai, Xin, Zhou, Zilong, Zang, Haizhi, Song, Zhengyang

“…Underground rock structures are frequently subjected to water erosion and dynamic disturbance simultaneously. Herein, in order to study the coupled effects of…”
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Three-dimensional mesoscale computational modeling of soil-rock mixtures with concave particles by Meng, Qingxiang, Wang, Huanling, Cai, Ming, Xu, Weiya, Zhuang, Xiaoying, Rabczuk, Timon

“…Soil-rock mixtures (SRMs) are the main unfavorable geologic bodies in Southwest China. This paper presents a novel mesoscale computational modeling study of…”
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Loess geohazards research in China: Advances and challenges for mega engineering projects by Juang, C. Hsein, Dijkstra, Tom, Wasowski, Janusz, Meng, Xingmin

“…Loess is a meta-stable, cemented assemblage of mainly silt and clay-sized particles of low plasticity. When dry it behaves like a brittle material, but when…”
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