Abstract: The classification of surrounding rock mass is essential for characterizing rock properties and geological conditions in tunneling engineering. While numerous empirical rock mass classification systems have been proposed ...

Abstract: Although spatially varying quantities in real life (e.g., mechanical properties of soils) often contain a linear or nonlinear trend, stationary random fields with zero trend are often used to model these quantities ...

Abstract: Although the properties of geomaterials vary spatially, geotechnical site investigations often take sparse measurements from a limited number of locations. To estimate geotechnical properties at unsampled locations, ...