Rockfall engineering /
"Rockfall Engineering is an up-to-date, international picture of the state of the art in rockfall engineering. The three basic stages of rockfalls are considered: the triggering stage, the motion stage, and the interaction with a structure stage; along with contributions including structural ch...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London : Hoboken, N.J. :
ISTE ; Wiley,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1. Geophysical Detection and Characterization of Discontinuities in Rock Slopes; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. Geophysical parameters and methods; 1.2.1. Introduction; 1.2.2. Seismic velocity; 1.2.3. Electrical resistivity; 1.2.4. Dielectrical permittivity; 1.2.5. Resonance frequency; 1.3. Applications; 1.3.1. Introduction; 1.3.2. Plateau survey: Ravin de l'Aiguille; 1.3.3. Cliff survey: Gorge de la Bourne; 1.3.4. Column survey: Chamousset; 1.4. Conclusions; 1.5. Acknowledgments; 1.6. Bibliography
- Chapter 2. Remote Sensing and Monitoring Techniques for the Characterization of Rock Mass Deformation and Change Detection2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Main issues; 2.3. Investigation and monitoring techniques; 2.3.1. Geotechnical instrumentation: crackmeter, extensometer, tiltmeter; 2.3.2. Distancemeter; 2.3.3. Laser scanning; 2.3.4. High resolution imaging and photogrammetry; 2.3.5. Synthetic aperture radar interferometry (InSAR); 2.3.6. Global navigation satellite system (GNSS); 2.4. Examples of applications; 2.4.1. Detection of rock slope instabilities; 2.4.2. Geometry and structure analysis
- 2.4.3. Movement detection and characterization2.4.4. Monitoring and real-time warning; 2.5. Perspectives; 2.6. Conclusions; 2.7. Bibliography; Chapter 3. Mechanical Stability Analyses of Fractured Rock Slopes; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Experimental study of rock joint behavior; 3.2.1. Description of natural rock joints; 3.2.2. Compression behavior of natural rock joints; 3.2.3. Shear behavior of natural rock joints; 3.2.4. Behavior of natural rock joints under other loading paths; 3.3. Failure computations of rigid blocks; 3.3.1. Geometrical aspects of block failure
- 3.3.2. Mechanical aspects of failure computation3.3.3. Examples of deterministic and probabilistic stability analyses; 3.3.4. Conclusion on failure computations; 3.4. Overview of different stress-strain analyses; 3.4.1. Different stress-strain methods; 3.4.2. Continuous approaches with joints; 3.4.3. Discrete methods; 3.4.4. Distinct element modeling; 3.4.5. NSCD method; 3.4.6. Hybrid methods; 3.5. An advanced stress-strain analysis of failure; 3.5.1. Framework of the analysis; 3.5.2. A new rock joint constitutive relation: the INL2 relation; 3.5.3. Stability analysis of INL2 relation
- 3.5.4. A stress-strain analysis of a rock slope3.6. Conclusions; 3.7. Bibliography; Chapter 4. Assessment of Constitutive Behaviors in Jointed Rock Masses from a DEM Perspective; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Discrete Element Modeling of rock materials; 4.3. Representation of rock discontinuities; 4.3.1. Smooth joint contact; 4.3.2. Synthetic rock joint; 4.3.3. Shear behavior of rough joints; 4.4. Synthetic Rock Mass modeling methodology; 4.4.1. Rock mass structural representation; 4.4.2. Equivalent rock mass model; 4.4.3. Rock mass constitutive behavior; 4.4.4. Anisotropy in rock mass properties