Three dimensional laser scanning, also known as Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) has quickly been expanding in its applications in the field of geological engineering due to its ability to rapidly acquire highly accurate three dimensional positional data. ...

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 ...

Considerable practical knowledge and effective use of empirical evidence is required in the design of tunnel support systems. In many instances, it is unclear how individual support elements interact with fractured rock and which elements of the support system ...

Population growth frequently causes expansion of urban populations and associated transportation facilities onto formerly uninhabited slopes, where naturally occurring and constructed rock faces present potential hazards from rock fall and rock face instability. ...

In order to enhance the detection of prospective rock falls in calcareous cliffs, 25 rock falls have been described in a more detailed way than for an inventory. They are representative of middle size rock falls (10 to 100,000 m3) occurring in the French Subalpine ...

<p>The text that follows is a comprehensive reference work on all aspects of rock slope engineering and, while it embodies all the original concepts of my work, it expands on these and introduces a significant amount of new material, for both mining and civil ...

<p>Based on the assumption that major class of rock instabilities are created by discontinuities, a method is proposed to estimate the fracture density by means of a digital elevation model (DEM). By using the mean orientation, the mean spacing and the mean ...

Soil-infilled discontinuities adversely influence the stability of rockmass, because, the infi ll materials especially when saturated, drastically reduce the shear strength. The angle of shearing resistance of a discontinuity decreases significantly for increasing ...

A computer analysis of bench stability has been developed to account for multiple occurrences of potentialslope-failure modes in discontinuous rock masses. Bench-scale plane shears and tetrahedral wedges are simulated and stochastically analyzed to estimate ...