A Case Study of Cyclic Top Coal Weakening Process Based on Highly Tough Coal Seam with Partings by Zhaopeng Wu, Junhui Wang, Zhijun Wan, Jingyi Cheng, Luchang Xiong, Lizhu Zhao, Xiaogang Liu

“…The conventional blast weakening process and water injection weakening process are more widely applied in fully mechanized caving mining of hard thick coal seams, but under some special complex geological conditions, no desirable performance has been achieved in top coal weakening by one weakening process alone after substantial investment in capital and equipment. …”
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Characterization of paleodrainages in desert regions of Saudi Arabia multisatellite images with field based study by Mashael M. Al Saud

“…They are ancient watercourses carried water in the past during the Holocene deluge, and they were affected by global climate change and geological processes turning them into dry and buried channels filled by sediments, and these are described as “Paleodrainages”. …”
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Force-Fracture Characteristics of the Roof above Goaf in a Steep Coal Seam: A Case Study of Xintie Coal Mine by Hong-sheng Tu, Shi-hao Tu, De-fu Zhu, Ding-yi Hao, Kai-jun Miao

“…After coal is extracted from a working face in a steep coal seam (SCS), the immediate roof tends to cave in and refill the lower part of the goaf. Based on the geological conditions of a work area in a SCS and the characteristics of roof caving, this study proposed a formula for the width of the backfill in the goaf and analyzed the main factors influencing it. …”
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Implementation of Lean Construction and Risk Management for Waste Identification in the Jragung Dam Construction Project Package 2 by Hanif Adriantama Muhammad, Agung Wibowo Mochammad, Utomo Dwi Hatmoko Jati

“…The highest-priority risks were unfinished diversion channels (RPN 108, RSV 36), geological issues found (RPN 105, RSV 35), and design revision (RPN 96, RSV 32). …”
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Shield-Roof Interaction in Longwall Panels: Insights from Field Data and Their Application to Ground Control by Jingyi Cheng, Zhijun Wan, Yinlin Ji

“…Our results show that the shield-roof interaction is not only dependent on the shield capacity, but also collectively determined by the time-related factors, the geological condition, the setting pressure, yielding characteristics, and mining method. …”
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Effects of Internal Pressure on Urban Water Supply Pipeline Leakage-Induced Soil Subsidence Mechanisms by Jingyu Cui, Fengyin Liu, Ruidi Chen, Shuangshuang Wang, Cheng Pu, Xu Zhao

“…After the rupture of pressurized water supply pipes in urban underground areas, seepage-induced ground subsidence becomes a severe geological hazard. Understanding the permeation and diffusion patterns of water in soil is crucial for deciphering the mechanisms underlying soil settlement and damage. …”
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PPV Criterion of a Rock Slope Imbedded with a Fault subjected to Blasting P-Waves by Shiwei Lu, Chuanbo Zhou, Zhen Zhang, Ling Ji, Nan Jiang

“…In fact, intact rock slopes do not exist and slope stability is controlled by the geological defects. In this paper, the stability of a rock slope imbedded with a fault is considered. …”
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Sensitivity Analysis and Numerical Simulation Study on Main Controlling Factors of Surface Movement and Deformation in Strip Filling Mining under Thick Unconsolidated Layers by Dequan Sun, Quanlin Wu, Xiaoyan Li, Zhaomin Zhang, Xiaotian Xu, Yang Li, Quansen Wu

“…In many mining areas, there is a lot of pressed coal under buildings, railways, and water bodies, and there are geological conditions of thick unconsolidated layers, so the surface subsidence has certain particularity. …”
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Freeze-Thaw Effects on Stability of Open Pit Slope in High-Altitude and Cold Regions by Yong Hong, Zhushan Shao, Guangbin Shi, Yong Dou, Weiqin Wang, Wen Zhang

“…To achieve this purpose, a linear relationship between the geological strength index (GSI) and the Tianshan slope rock mass rating (TSMR) system is established considering the effect of the freeze-thaw action by introducing a freeze-thaw correction coefficient δ. …”
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Assessment of the Potential Flood Risk in Sarbaz Drainage Basin by Asadollah Mollazehi, MohammadReza Pudineh, Mahmood Khosravi, Mohsen Armesh, AliAsghar Dehvari

“…For this purpose, the databases including elevation, slope, geological characteristics, soil characteristics, precipitation, vegetation, land use, and vector layers of the main channel, streams and drainage densities of the basin were used. …”
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Numerical Simulation of Nanosilica Sol Grouting for Deep Tunnels Based on the Multifield Coupling Mechanism by Dongjiang Pan, Kairong Hong, Helin Fu, Zhiguo Li, Limeng Zhang, Gaoming Lu, Feixiang Sun, Shiyu Wen

“…Grouting is an effective technical way for the construction of deep tunnels in unfavorable geological conditions. The fluid-solid-chemical coupling mechanism of grouting process is analyzed from the following three aspects: influence of physical properties of silica sol on permeability coefficient, dynamic changes of porosity and permeability of geotechnical media with seepage pressure, and governing equations for flow and mass transfer characteristics. …”
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Numerical Simulation Research and Application of Support Design of Broken Rock Mass in Submarine Gold Mine by Yu-yun Fan, Ming-wei Jiang, Li Cheng, Xi Wang, Xing-quan Liu, Chunlong Wang, Kexu Chen

“…In order to solve the problem that the broken rock mass is easy to collapse and fall during the excavation of a submarine gold mine, two kinds of bolt-mesh-concreting combined support schemes are designed by means of field engineering geological investigation, indoor rock mechanics test, rock mass quality classification, and theoretical analysis. …”
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Dynamic Shear Strength of Rock Joints and Its Influence on Key Blocks by Shuhong Wang, Feili Wang, Zhanguo Xiu

“…Shear strength deterioration of rock joints and its induced instability of key blocks subjected to dynamic disturbance constitute the mechanism of many geological disasters such as rockburst, landslide, and rockfall. …”
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Discretization of the Water Uptake Process of Na-Montmorillonite Undergoing Atmospheric Stress: XRD Modeling Approach by Walid Oueslati, Mahdi Meftah

“…This work focuses on the water-montmorillonite interaction under variable atmospheric conditions in order to characterize the interlamellar space (IS) configuration for possible use in the context of geological barrier for radioactive and industrial waste confinement. …”
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Analysis of the ecological status of urban parks with emphasis on forest parks using GIS (Case study: Tabriz) by Hassan Mahmoodzadeh, musa vaezi, rahimeh rostami, maedeh bakooyi

“…In the studied parks, according to the results of the geological survey, the Eagle Park is in ecological terms, and the Shams, Baghmehisheh and Eram parks are in the next ranks, and the point is the inappropriate situation of the Eram Park and Baghmehisheh Parks, especially Eram, in comparison with other parks. …”
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Simulation and Analysis of Long-Term CO2 Trapping for the Shenhua CCS Demonstration Project in the Ordos Basin by Ying Yu, Yilian Li, Guodong Yang, Fengcheng Jiang, Sen Yang, Yongsheng Wang

“…These results are useful for the evaluation of the geochemical process in long-term CO2 geological storage.…”
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Ground Subsidence Evolution from 1000 m Deep Mining: A Case Study in Fengfeng Mining Area by Yueguan Yan, Ming Li, Jibo Liu, Weitao Yan, Jinman Zhang, Bang Zhou

“…Combining with the geological and mining conditions of Fengfeng mining area, this paper systematically studies the characteristics of surface movement under the condition of shallow, moderate, and near kilometer mining depth. …”
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Mapping Subsurface and Surface Characteristics of the Recent Pesanggrahan Landslide, Central Java, Indonesia, for Landslide Hazard Management by Anastasia Neni Candra Purnamasari, Eddy Hartantyo, Junun Sartohadi, Hazqial Hafazhah

“…Differences in Vp values corresponded to different geological layers. There were four distinct layers: Top Soil (TS), Clay (CL), Weathered Bedrock (WB), and Tuff Breccia (TB) within the 2D seismic refraction cross-section with Vp values ranging from 150 to 1,800 m/s. …”
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Origin and spatial distribution of metals in agricultural soils by Gh. A. Mohammadpour, A.R. Karbassi, A. Baghvand

“…Analysis of zoning map of pollution index showed that Fe, Sb and Mn are of geological sources. In fact, these metals are naturally found in soil. …”
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Study on the Effect of Mineral Particle Sizes on the Spectral Characteristics of Sound and Vibrations in Rock Drilling by Zhantao Li, Sui Wang, Jicheng Wang, Chunxia Song, Bin Chen

“…The study provides a possibility for developing a method to evaluate the information on rock structures collected from drilling vibration or sound signals for the fine exploration of geological surveys.…”
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