Artificial intelligence in tunnel construction: A comprehensive review of hotspots and frontier topics
March 2024
Application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in tunnel construction has the potential to transform the industry by improving efficiency, safety, and cost-effectiveness. This paper presents a comprehensive...
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An assessment of earthquake vulnerability by multi-criteria decision-making method
March 2023
Earthquake is one of the most destructive catastrophes in Bangladesh and the evaluation of vulnerability is a prerequisite for the earthquake risk estimation. As a result, determining vulnerability...
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Tunnel SAM adapter: Adapting segment anything model for tunnel water leakage inspection
March 2024
Water leakage inspection in the tunnels is a critical engineering job that has attracted increasing concerns. Leakage area detection via manual inspection techniques is time-consuming and might produce...
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Assessment of seismic retrofitting interventions in reinforced concrete structures
June 2023
Destruction of reinforced concrete (RC) structures, particularly non-ductile RC structures, in recent earthquakes demonstrate their vulnerability under lateral forces generated in an earthquake. Despite...
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A brief introduction to disaster rock mass mechanics
March 2023
Rock mass mechanics can be classified into engineering rock mass mechanics and disaster rock mass mechanics based on science and application. Their conception, object, scientific essence and application...
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Roof bolting and underground roof falls
March 2023
Roof bolting has been used in underground entry (roadway) support in U.S. coal mines since the Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 (US Congress, 1977) recognized roof bolting as the only means of...
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Disturbance response instability theory of rock bursts in coal mines and its application
March 2023
Aiming at the rock burst prevention in coal mines, this study argue that a rock burst is the instability of the coal mass deformation system with the infinite deformation response subjected to a small...
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Enhancing disaster management effectiveness: A integrated analysis of key factors and practical strategies through Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and Scopus Data Text Mining
Available online 24 March 2024
In the 21st century, the surge in natural and human-induced disasters necessitates robust disaster management frameworks. This research addresses a critical gap, exploring dynamics in the successful...
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A stacked multiple kernel support vector machine for blast induced flyrock prediction
March 2024
As a widely used rock excavation method in civil and mining construction works, the blasting operations and the induced side effects are always investigated by the existing studies. The occurrence of...
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Theoretical framework for stress relief-support reinforcement cooperative control of rock bursts in deep coal mining
March 2024
With the increasing depth of coal mining each year, rock burst has emerged as one of the most severe dynamic disasters in deep mining. The research status of rock burst prevention and control theory...
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Hardrock burst mechanisms and management strategies
March 2023
Rockbursts occur as a direct consequence of underground mining or civil excavation. The general scale of their seismic disturbance and consequences depend upon known factors. However, uncertainty remains...
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Development laws of geological hazards along urban highway in Southwest China and countermeasures for prevention and control
March 2024
China is a mountainous country with highly developed road geologic hazards, which pose a great threat to the construction and operation of highways, bridges, and tunnels and to the safety of people...
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Coal and gas outburst prediction model based on principal component analysis and improved support vector machine
December 2023
In order to predict the coal outburst risk quickly and accurately, a PCA-FA-SVM based coal and gas outburst risk prediction model was designed. Principal component analysis (PCA) was used to pre-process...
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Pendulum waves and basics of «geomechanical thermodynamics»
March 2023
It is shown that modern achievements in the field of experimental and theoretical researches and developments of innovative measuring systems for monitoring of non-linear dynamic and kinematic characteristics...
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Analysis of coal mine safety accident features in China, 2017–2022
Available online 28 March 2024
Coal-related accidents are prevalent in China, often attributed to the intricate geology and challenging working conditions of mines. This study seeks to determine the patterns of these accidents by...
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Monitoring and evaluation of disaster risk caused by linkage failure and instability of residual coal pillar and rock strata in multi-coal seam mining
December 2023
Comprehensive research methods such as literature research, theoretical analysis, numerical simulations and field monitoring have been used to analyze the disasters and characteristics caused by the...
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Review of the experimental studies of the cracking behaviors of fractured rocks under compression
Available online 6 March 2024
In recent years, many useful experimental results on the cracking behaviors of fractured rocks have been obtained via uniaxial, biaxial, triaxial, and Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar (SHPB) tests. In this...
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Evaluation of ground motion parameters and seismic response of reinforced concrete buildings from the Mw 6.9, 2011 Sikkim earthquake
June 2023
The continuous collision of the Eurasian plate and the Indian plate has resulted in several earthquakes in the Himalayan region. The 6.9 Mw 2011 Sikkim earthquake, which caused immense damage to the...
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Research on the influence of rock fracture toughness of layered formations on the hydraulic fracture propagation at the initial stage
Available online 29 March 2024
Deep underground rocks exhibit significant layered heterogeneity due to geological evolution and sedimentation. Rock fracture toughness, as one of the important indicators of hydraulic crack propagation,...
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Efficiently identifying coalbed methane enrichment areas by detecting and locating low-frequency signals in the coal mine
March 2023
Low-frequency signals have been widely found in the conventional oil/gas field and volcanic region as well as during hydraulic fracturing of unconventional oil/gas reservoirs. Their generation mechanism...
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Comparison between bearing characteristics of pervious concrete pile composite foundations with different replacement ratios
September 2023
The replacement ratio is an essential factor in evaluating the bearing capacity characteristics of composite foundations. This study focuses on the bearing capacity of a pervious concrete pile with...
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Quantitative assessment of energy changes in underground coal excavations using numerical approach
March 2023
Coal burst is caused by a dynamic and unstable release of energy within the overstressed rock mass/coal during the mining process. Although the occurrence of coal burst is a result of the complex impacts...
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Detection and targeted control of regional stress field for coal burst prevention
March 2023
As coal burst normally occurs in the area of high stress concentration, it is of significance to study the features of regional stress field in coal mines. Primitive stress field, mining-induced stress...
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Tunnel entrance crossing spoil heap deformations control by micropile combine with coupling beams
March 2024
Aiming at the deformation control problem of the tunnel entrance crossing the spoil heap at the Xialao junction, this paper adopts the micropile combined with the coupling beams method to treat the...
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Viscoelastic solution of optimal reserved deformation for deep soft rock tunnels with large deformation
Available online 3 March 2024
In the construction process of soft rock tunnels, determining a reasonable amount of reserved deformation is important to ensure the tunnel stability. This article presents the viscoelastic solution...
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