... extraction areas (inter-panel pillars), the control of regional convergence and the associated limit of mining-induced seismicity and abutment stresses (stabilizing pillars) and the protection of critical infrastructure, such as shaft systems (protection pillars). This paper addresses massive hard-rock...

... ABSTRACT During seismic events, infrastructure in mountainous terrain is often vulnerable to rockfall impacts. This paper presents a probabilistic approach to evaluating the potential of rockfall impacts on an existing hydropower infrastructure under the design ground motions condition...

... ABSTRACT Underground infrastructures can be adversely affected by earthquake-induced rock engineering vibration causing damage problems. These impacts are even more significantly affected for large underground caverns due to the large span and complex structures. Currently, time-history...

... ABSTRACT: EPOS Thematic Core Service ANTHROPOGENIC HAZARDS (TCS AH) integrates, within the framework of the European Plate Observing System (EPOS) (www.epos-eu.org), research infrastructures freely open for scientists, engineers, and all others interested in hazards posed by the seismicity...

... in rock specimens under freeze-thaw cyclic treatments. This study provides new insights into the rock degradation process under changing climate and could contribute to the future design and assessment of climate-resilient infrastructure. 1. INTRODUCTION Rock is a typical porous material that allows...

... a threat to life, infrastructure and the environment. Related studies have revealed that some of the earthquakes are mining induced as confirmed by research done in deep gold mines in South Africa. The 2017 Botswana Geoscience Institute (BGI) report warned the country about the risk of earthquakes...

... building. Following a series of near misses and actual impacts from rock fall onto the roof and sidewall of the building, Tetra Tech were commissioned to assess and remediate the rock fall hazard. To mitigate the hazard in such a spatially constrained site, with critical infrastructure both at the base...

... shielding from cosmic radiation along with a lesser number of geological, geomechanical, and biological experiments. Although it is still indeterminate, a design life of 30 years is not unreasonable for this type of facility. Given the age of much of the underground infrastructure and the expected long...

... it was located below a piece of critical infrastructure. As a result of the instability the infrastructure site was compromised with a significant cost implication to the mine. Fig. 4. Plan of failure in relation to pit wall and infrastructure. The chronology of the development of the instability was as follows...

..., the civil war in the early 1990s, and the Taliban government from 1996 to 2001. As infrastructure and institutions are rebuilding and expanding, there is considerable need for capacity building. In the area of rock engineering, many past projects have been the state of the art for their time...

...1. INTRODUCTION Knowing the in-situ stresses around a future subsurface infrastructure is very important to the design engineer. Conventional in-situ stress measurement techniques include hydraulic fracturing method and over-coring method [2, 10]. Recent development is the integrated stress...