<p>The national highways are always considered as the economic backbone of the country and have often assisted development work all along their routes. The National Highway (NH-1D) is the most strategic and the only all weather surface link between the two ...

On 4 September 2010, a surface rupturing earthquake (Mw 7.1) struck the Canterbury Plains region in New Zealand's South Island. The Canterbury Plains is a region of relatively low seismicity, and the structure that ruptured was a previously unmapped fault. ...

The paper presents the kinematics of rock instability of a high limestone promontory, where the Monemvasia historical site is situated, in Peloponnese in Southern Greece. The instability phenomena poses a significant threat to the town located at the base of ...

Fibre reinforcement is a technology to improve the strength of soils used as fill in geotechnical structures. The properties of the fibre-reinforced sand are anisotropic because of the distribution of orientation of the fibres, which is characterised by a ...

<p>The In&ouml;n&uuml;-Eskisehir fault system (IEFS) is one of the most important fault systems in Central Anatolia and consists of a series of NW&ndash;SE- to WNW&ndash;ESE-trending fault zones extending from Uludag (Bursa) in the northwest to SultanhanI ...

<p>This paper presents the slope stability and excavatability assessment of rocks at the Kapikaya dam site that contains diabases.</p>

The following paper describes the cause, course and result of geological engineering investigations of rock slopes.

<p>About 22 mio m³ of rock fell from a cliff near the village of Randa (10 km north of Zermatt, Switzerland) on 18 April 1991. A second retrogressive rockslide of about 7 miom³ followed on 9 May 1991. At present, a rock mass situated ...

<p>These lecture notes introduces the field of rock slope stability analysis and the purpose such analyses serve in the investigation of potential slope failure mechanisms. Advancements in and the evolution of computer based slope analysis techniques are discoussed, ...

Stability analyses of reinforced soil structures are traditionally based on limit equilibrium calculations. Results from such analyses are sometimes ambiguous because of different assumptions made in addition to the <br>limit state. It is shown in this paper ...