Abstract: Rocks available for the foundations of civil engineering structures are often jointed and behave anisotropically. This paper presents a method to estimate the ultimate bearing capacity of non-Hoek–Brown rock masses. The ...

Abstract: Infrastructure projects require billions of dollars, but they are destroyed in seconds due to strong ground motions during earthquakes. The disaster mitigation cell of any nation seeks sustainable and resilient infrastructure ...

Abstract: In this paper, the stress-strain response of two extrusive volcanic igneous rocks, e.g., compact basalt (CB) and volcanic breccia (VB), under a high rate of loading is studied experimentally and numerically. The dynamic ...