financial support from the Young Scientist Project of the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2021YFC2900600);Beijing Nova Program(Grant No.20220484057);The authors acknowledge the financial support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada(Grant No.RGPIN-2018-06902);industrial partners of the Research Institute on Mines and the Environment(RIME UQAT-Polytechnique:https://irme.ca/en/).
Underhand cut-and-fill mining has been widely used in underground mining operations,especially when the rock mass or orebody is of poor quality or prone to rockburst due to high stress.In such cases,mining workers sho...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51804296);China Scholarship Council Grant(Grant No.CSC#202006425019).
Controllable rock cracking technology is crucial for the exploration and exploitation of deep underground resources.Many existing studies have been dedicated to the laser-assisted rock-weakening technology.It has been...
supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(Grant No.2019YFC1806004);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.42272322 and 51878159).
Despite the fact that mixing uniformity(i.e.the consistency of binder distribution)significantly influence the quality of ground improvement during in situ soil mixing projects,its quantitative evaluation was rarely c...
partial financial support by the Women Leading IITM,IIT Madras,Chennai,India.
Mineral carbonation is emerging as a reliable CO_(2) capture technology that can mitigate climate change.In lime-treated clayey soils,mineral carbonation occurs through the carbonation of free lime and cementitious pr...
the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51979008);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51779018);the Innovation team of Changjiang River Scientific Research Institute(Grant No.CKSF2021715/YT).
Layered rock mass is a type of engineering rock mass with sound mechanical anisotropy,which is generally unfavorable to the stability of underground works.To investigate the strength anisotropy of layered rock,the Moh...
This work was supported by Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.52278333);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant No.N2101021);The work is under the framework of the 111 Project(Grant No.B17009)and Sino-Franco Joint Research Laboratory on Multiphysics and Multiscale Rock Mechanics.
The anisotropic mechanical behavior of rocks under high-stress and high-temperature coupled conditions is crucial for analyzing the stability of surrounding rocks in deep underground engineering.This paper is devoted ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.42177164);the Distinguished Youth Science Foundation of Hunan Province of China(Grant No.2022JJ10073);the Innovation-Driven Project of Central South University(Grant No.2020CX040).
Rock strength is a crucial factor to consider when designing and constructing underground projects.This study utilizes a gene expression programming(GEP)algorithm-based model to predict the true triaxial strength of r...
The 57-km long,new Gotthard Base Tunnel(GBT)crosses over a 1.1-km long stretch containing kakirites,i.e.weak rocks which,depending on the degree of tectonisation,may exhibit severe squeezing behaviour upon tunnel exca...
Failure of irregular rock samples may provide implications in the rapid estimation of rock strength,which is imperative in rock engineering practice.In this work,analytical,experimental and numerical investigations we...
The author thanks the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada for a discovery grant(Grant No.06408),Dr.Le Li for drawing the figures,and Dr.A.I.Chemenda for discussion.Three anonymous reviewers and the editors are sincerely thanked for their critical comments and helpful suggestions.
Fractures occur in nearly all rocks at the Earth’s surface and exert essential control on the mechanical strengths of rock masses and permeability.The fractures strongly impact the stability of geological or man-made...