Lateral strain-controlled AUSBIT for Brazilian tests: insights from AE and DIC

Fauzan Yudho Pratomo, Murat Karakus, Giang D. Nguyen, Ha H. Bui

Impact of Various Pore Fluids on Mode I Fracture Toughness in Granite

Yan Li, Miguel Herbón-Penabad, Jordi Delgado-Martín, Andrea Muñoz-Ibáñez, Tonglu Li

Direct tensile testing of Moleanos limestone

Jorge Castro, Marina Miranda, Meagan H. Olson, Jon Justo

Advantages of ring test for tensile strength determination: a new empirical solution.

Ana Teresa Santos de Alencar, Mauro Muñiz-Menéndez, Rubén Galindo

The infrared-monitored rock cooling as a tool for porosity estimation in laboratory, a review

Simone Mineo, Giovanna Pappalardo

Comparison of the tensile elastic modulus estimated by the Brazilian test and the direct tensile test.

Ana Teresa Santos de Alencar, Mauro Muñiz-Menéndez, Rubén Galindo

A Simple Pseudo-Compact Tension (pCT) Test Apparatus to Measure Pure Tension Mode I Fracture toughness

Yan Li, Miguel Herbón-Penabad, Andrea Muñoz-Ibáñez, Tonglu Li, Jordi Delgado-Martín

Characterizing shear stiffness of bedding parallel fractures for sedimentary rocks

Adam D Lines, Klaus Thoeni, Olivier Buzzi, Anna Giacomini

The use of ultrasonic tomography to study the physical properties of granite rock

Iwona Stan-Kłeczek, Małgorzata Wróbel

Assessing of influence of heterogeneity on the shear strength of joints: an experimental study using artificial stone materials

Miguel Cano, Humberto Cabrera, José Luis Pastor, Lucía Buzón, Tiago Miranda

Strain analysis on jointed rock specimens submitted to triaxial compressive tests

Manuel A Gonzalez-Fernandez, Leandro R Alejano, Isabella G West, Gabriel Walton

Microestructure analysis using thin sections of fracture propagation in rocks

Jon Justo, Miguel Ángel Sánchez-Carro, Javier Escanciano, Marina Miranda, Jorge Castro

Innovative swelling testing technique for anhydritic rock

Erich Pimentel

A study on suggesting candidate rock types for high-level radioactive waste disposal considering the geological characteristics of the Korean Peninsula

Dae-Sung Cheon, Kwangmin Jin, Joong Ho Synn, You Hong Kihm

Assessment of factors influencing the slaking behaviour of rocks from the Rhenodanubian Flysch Zone, Austria, using mineralogical-geomechanical laboratory tests

Markus Kaspar, Chrstine Latal, Thomas Frühwirt, Manfred Blümel

Assessment of rock stress diagrams involving intermediate principal stress effects

Minoru Sato, Takato Takemura

Estimating static elastic properties of the volcanic sequence in the Valley of Queretaro and implications to land subsidence related rupture

Mariano Cerca, Dora Carreon-Freyre, Carolina Ortega-Cervantes

Effect of initial crack length on mode I fracture toughness in pseudo-compact tension test

Shahrbanou Sayadi, Jordi Delgado-Martín, Miguel Herbón Penabad, Morteza Javadi

Petrography and mineralogy of fault material from the Great Glen Fault

Marli de Jongh, Jeremy Rushton, Richard Haslam, Stephen Parry, Simon Kemp

Determining intrinsic properties of geomaterials at meso scale

Giang Dinh Nguyen, Linh Anh Le, Ha Hong Bui, Murat Karakus

On the physical-mechanical characterization of heterogeneous sandstones from Capo d’Orlando Flysch formation (northeastern Sicily)

Giordana Zocco, Simone Mineo, Giovanna Pappalardo

Effects of high temperatures on the color and strength of a cretaceous limestone

María Elvira Garrido, Víctor Martínez-Ibáñez, Carlos Hidalgo-Signes, José Bernardo Serón-Gáñez, Álvaro Rabat, Roberto Tomás

The effect of pillar reinforcement on pillar strength

Johann Christoff Esterhuyse, Daniel Francois Malan

Geotechnical exploration and design of open pit rock slopes for an iron ore deposit in Uzbekistan

Torsten Gorka, Florian Beier

Estimating the drilling rate of jumbo drills from Sievers’ J-miniature drill tests in sandstones and limestones from a mining exploitation in Asturias (Spain)

Víctor Martínez-Ibáñez, María Elvira Garrido, Carlos Hidalgo-Signes, José Bernardo Serón Gáñez, Álvaro Rabat, Martina-Inmaculada Álvarez-Fernández, Celestino González-Nicieza

Úcar's non-linear rock failure criterion as a predictive tool and as a curve-fitting equation

Vanessa Cordón, Luis Arlegui, José Luis Simón, Rosibeth Toro, Roberto Ucar, Norly Belandria, Francisco Javier Torrijo

Experimental study on the size effect and anisotropy of shale strength under polyaxial compressive stress conditions

Yun Zhao, Brijes Mishra, Qingwen Shi

Development of a portable permeability testing device for rock permeability measurements

Daisuke Asahina, Hinako Hosono, Makoto Otsubo, Mikio Takeda

Analysis of a T-shaped gallery intersection drilled in anisotropic claystone.

Panteleimon Rapanakis, Benoît Pardoen, Denis Branque, Jan S. Cornet, Gilles Armand

Rock slope stability analysis considering three-dimensional stress and strength

Haohua Chen, Hehua Zhu, Lianyang Zhang

Stability analysis and support of room and pillar underground Dionyssos marble exploitation

Paraskevi Yiouta-Mitra, Konstantinos Bisbiroulas, Sotirios Triposkoufis, Pavlos Nomikos

Influence of the initial porosity on the swelling strain developing during anhydrite to gypsum transformation

Antonia Nousiou, Erich Pimentel, Georgios Anagnostou

Analysis of acoustic emission events induced by normal stress unloading in shear behaviour of rock fractures

Jintong Zhang, Zhihong Zhao, Yue Shen, Jun Wu, Xiongguang Zhao

Rock breakage with expansive cement under uniaxial loading condition

Kelly-Meriam Habib, Isaac Vennes, Hani S MITRI

Using rock engineering interaction matrix to assess flow behaviour through discontinuities in the unsaturated zone

Mampho Maoyi, Rory Bush, J Louis Van Rooy, Matthys Dippenaar

Numerical study of scale effect on non-linear behavior of fluid flow through rough fractures

Masoud Torkan, Mateusz Janiszewski, Lauri Uotinen, Alireza Baghbanan, Mikael Rinne

Comparative Study on Discontinuity Sets Analysis Using 3D Point Clouds from TLS and Airborne 3D Laser Scanner

Adrián Riquelme, Carles Raïmat, Jona Trujillo, Miguel Cano, Roberto Tomás, José Luis Pastor

Tunnel face videogrammetry for low-cost digitization and discontinuity set orientation measurements

Mateusz Janiszewski, Masoud Torkan, Lauri Uotinen, Hamza Javed, Mikael Rinne

Advanced Geological Predictions in Tunnels: A Novel Approach using Surface-Wave Dispersion and Model-Substitution for Weak Layer Characterization

Daiguang Fu, Liming Zhou

Analysis of an old rock avalanche using different remote sensing methods

Željko Arbanas, Josip Peranić, Snježana Mihalić Arbanas

Monitoring of preparatory factors driving toward rock-block failures: insights from Acuto Field Lab experiments (Italy)

Gian Marco Marmoni, Matteo Fiorucci, Guglielmo Grechi, Yawar Hussain, Yanan Qian, Salvatore Martino

Atalaya TSF monitoring: data correlation, modelling, and best practices

Susana Rodriguez, Francesco Giliberto, Matteo Bianchetti, Jorge Fernandez, Pilar Sanchez

Rockfall early warning system for enhancing traffic safety

Matteo Castiglioni, Tullio Caraffa, Claudio Ottavi, Silvia Autuori, Carlo Pullano, Antonio Lippolis, Ciro Mallardo, Antonio Santo, Luigi Massaro, Ermanno Marino, Alessandro Brunetti