Novel Model for Manoeuvrability of Ships Advancing in Landslide-Generated Tsunamis by Peiyin Yuan, Pingyi Wang, Yu Zhao

“…The rock and soil on the shore of the bank are unsteady and slide in a poor environment, affecting the water body in the river channel and forming landslide-generated tsunamis. …”
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Simplified Method for Calculating the Active Earth Pressure on Retaining Walls of Narrow Backfill Width Based on DEM Analysis by Minghui Yang, Bo Deng

“…Spaces for backfills are often constrained and narrowed when retaining walls must be built close to existing stable walls in urban areas or near rock faces in mountainous areas. The discrete element method (DEM), using Particle Flow Code (PFC-2D) software, was employed to simulate the behavior of cohesionless soil with narrow width behind a rigid retaining wall when the wall translation moved away from the soils. …”
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Excavation Method of Reducing Blasting Vibration in Complicated Geological Conditions by Lixiang Xie, Wenbo Lu, Jincai Gu, Gaohui Wang

“…To effectively reduce the blasting vibration by optimizing the blasting excavation method, firstly, the site test on blasting vibration is conducted to obtain the blasting vibration data; secondly, the LS-DYNA software is applied to simulate the vibration generated by blasting in site test, based on back analysis on the blasting vibration, the mechanical parameters of the rock mass are obtained, and they are used to simulate six different types of blasting excavation method. …”
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MODELING THE BRAZILIAN TENSILE STRENGTH TEST OF LIGNITE FROM PESTEANA OPENPIT MINE USING THE COMBINED FINITE-DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD – FDEM by Ionela Cristina MĂCEŞARU, Alexandru Robert CIOCLU, Florin Dumitru POPESCU

“…Strength is the property of rocks to keep their internal structure unmodified and not deform under the action of a stress. …”
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Numerical Study on 4-1 Coal Seam of Xiaoming Mine in Ascending Mining by Lan Tianwei, Zhang Hongwei, Li Sheng, Han Jun, Song Weihua, A. C. Batugin, Tang Guoshui

“…Coal seams ascending mining technology is very significant, since it influences the safety production and the liberation of dull coal, speeds up the construction of energy, improves the stability of stope, and reduces or avoids deep hard rock mining induced mine disaster. Combined with the Xiaoming ascending mining mine 4-1, by numerical calculation, the paper analyses ascending mining 4-1 factors, determines the feasibility of ascending mining 4-1 coalbed, and proposes roadway layout program about working face, which has broad economic and social benefits.…”
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A Novel Experiment to Study the Roll Motion Characteristics of a Sailing Ship in a Landslide-Generated Wave in the Three Gorges Reservoir by Peiyin Yuan, Pingyi Wang, Yu Zhao

“…Strong earthquakes, heavy rains, changes in reservoir water levels, and other external factors destabilize large rock masses causing them to fall into the water at high speed, thereby destroying the original ecological balance in the region. …”
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Analysis of the Coal Fluidization Mining Process with the Continuous-Discontinuous Coupled Particle-Block Method by Jing Li, Chun Feng, Xinguang Zhu, Yiming Zhang

“…The results partly reveal the influences of the filling rate on the stratum deformation, surface subsidence, and rock burst phenomena, all of which further indicate the advantages of the fluidization mining method.…”
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Stochastic Generation of Subsurface Profiles for Realistic Simulation of Through-the-Earth Communication Systems by Josua Daniel Pena Carreno, A. Judson De Barros Braga

“…Deterministic models are limited to homogeneous rock structures while empirical models are only valid for the same configuration as the measurements that were taken. …”
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CHEMICAL FEATURES OF DARK MIСAS FROM CALCITE-NEPHELINE-FELDSPAR PEGMATITES OF THE ILMENOGORSKY ALKALINE BLOCK (SOUTH URALS) by S. V. Cherednichenko

“…The nepheline-feldspar pegmatite with a rock-forming calcite (mine no. 125) contains annite with higher Fe content (Ftot 0.67–0.73). …”
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The Study on the Substrate Effect in the Nanoindentation Experiment of the Hybrid Material by Kang Liang, Kunpeng Gao, Wenqing Cai

“…The real NI experiment and the numerical simulation method were adopted to reveal the characteristics of the substrate effect in the NI experiment of the hybrid material in this paper, such as the rock or cement material. The peak displacement hpeak and the residual displacement hresidual of the indenter, which could obtain directly from the NI experiment and were usually considered as key basic variables to calculated other parameters, were selected as evaluation indexes of the substrate effect. …”
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Sodicity and Salinity Hazards in Water Flow Processes in the Soil by R. P. Dhok, A. S. Patil, V. S. Ghole

“…This is because of the salinization of aquifers generated by rock salt present below the aquifers. The issue was studied for the groundwater environment in the Karha river basin area, Baramati, Pune, (M.S.) …”
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Investigation of the Law of Natural Gas Phase Behavior during the Migration and Reservoir Formation by Longlong Li, Jiaren Ye, Minqi Li, Lin Pan

“…Therefore, it can be inferred that the natural gas generated from the source rock of the DF13-1 structure mainly migrated and accumulated in the form of the free phase.…”
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Effect of Temperature and Strain Rate on the Brittleness of China Sandstone by Xiuyuan Yang, Zhenlong Ge, Qiang Sun, Weiqiang Zhang

“…To quantitatively study the influence of temperature and strain rate on the brittleness of sandstone, the mechanical parameters of sandstone under different temperatures and strain rates are collected from the previous literature, and two empirical equations for calculating rock brittleness are used to quantitatively calculate and evaluate the brittleness of sandstone. …”
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Delineation of groundwater recharge zones in lateritic terrains using geospatial techniques by A. Ajayakumar, Rajesh Reghunath

“…Abstract This study attempts to narrow down the groundwater potential zones in a river basin where laterites form the major aquifer rock. The study is attempted in the Ithikkara River Basin (IRB), located in the southern Western Ghats of Kerala, India. …”
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From Domestic Setting to Display Space: The Evolution of the Foster Associates’ Work Spaces and Methodology by Gabriel Hernández

“…The Foster Associates team has been depicted, among many other identities, as superheroes, a rock-band, tandem riders and a football team. Founded by Norman and Wendy Foster, their collective working methodology has become one of the practice’s primary trademarks. …”
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La dimensión terapéutica de la experiencia musical: aflicción y trabajo reflexivo en jóvenes fans de un cantante argentino by Nicolás Aliano

“…Basado en un trabajo de campo etnográfico realizado entre 2008 y2016 con personas de sectores populares aficionadas a un músico de rock argentino, mi objetivo en este artículo es describir ciertos efectos subjetivos que produce esta música en la vida de los fans. …”
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Newspaper cartoons as a reflection of political change during the first democratic elections in South Africa by Cornelius van Heerden

“… The first Southern African cartoonists were probably the Stone Age Bushman whose drawings adorn rock faces in this part of the continent. Modern cartoonists may use more sophisticated equipment but their drawings, although on recyclable print, also reflect a particular part of our history. …”
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MAGNETITE-ILMENITE-SPINEL INTERGROWTHS IN AMPHIBOLE GABBRO OF THE SEREBRYANSKY KAMEN INTRUSION, CENTRAL URALS by A.V. Kozlov, V.V. Mikhaylov, S.Yu. Stepanov, V.V. Shilovskikh, N.S. Vlasenko

“…Ontogenic analysis of magnetite-ilmenite-spinel intergrowths of ore-bearing amphibole gabbro of the Serebryansky Kamen intrusion (Central Urals) and their relationships with rock-forming silicates, apatite and Cu sulfides allowed us to reveal a number of features indicating their nearly synchronous formation. …”
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Study of the Effects of Heating on Organic Matter and Mineral Phases in Limestones by J. May-Crespo, P. Martínez-Torres, P. Quintana, J. J. Alvarado-Gil, L. Vilca-Quispe, N. Camacho

“…Moreover, we reveal that most of the thermally induced variations are associated, in this range of temperature, to the dehydroxylation of goethite that transforms into hematite, as well as by the burning and partial release of the organic matter present in the rock. Colorimetry analyses show that the sequence of thermally induced changes can be followed by the evolution of the three coordinates, L∗ (lightness), a∗ (red-green), and b∗ (yellow-blue), of the CIE 1976 L∗a∗b∗ space.…”
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EURAD State-of-the-Art Report: Assessment of the chemical evolution at the disposal cell scale – part II – gaining insights into the geochemical evolution by Guido Deissmann, Erika Neeft, Diederik Jacques

“…Geochemical conditions will change in the waste, conditioning matrix, waste package, engineered barriers and the host rock–all components present at the disposal cell scale. …”
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