Response and Stability of Underground Structures in Rock Mass during Earthquakes

Dynamic Response and Dynamic Failure Mode of a Weak Intercalated Rock Slope Using a Shaking Table

“…In 2008, the Wenchuan earthquake (moment magnitude of 7.9) induced extensive slope failures, including 56,000 rock falls and landslides, forming 256 barrier lakes (Huang and Li 2009a, b;Wasowski et al 2011). Much attention has been paid to the dynamic response characteristics of slopes under earthquake excitation (Wartman et al 2005;Lin and Wang 2006;Aydan et al 2010; Barbero and Barla 2010;Latha and Garaga 2010;Chen et al 2013;Liu et al 2013Liu et al , 2014. However, research on rock slopes with weak intercalated layers is rare (Xu and Yan 2014;Yang et al 2014), especially in terms of comparison between slopes parallel to geological bedding (referred to here as bedding slopes) and slopes that cross-cut geological bedding (counter-bedding slopes).…”

Microseismic monitoring and stability evaluation for the large scale underground caverns at the Houziyan hydropower station in Southwest China

“…Wu et al (2010) and Zhou et al (2012) studied unloading deformation and different crack sizes for the surrounding rock masses of underground caverns at the Jinping I hydropower station. Aydan et al (2010) studied the dynamic response and stability of underground structures during earthquakes. Yoshida and Horii (2004), Tezuka and Seoka (2003), and Dhawan et al (2004) analyzed the stability of the surrounding rock mass on specific hydroelectric projects using the finite element and discrete element methods.…”

Large-scale soil–structure physical model (1g) – assessment of structure damages

“…Castro et al (2007) and Trueman et al (2008) dedicated their study to the block caving exploitation method. Aydan et al (2010) studied the effect of an earthquake on the stability of an old coalmine in Japan. They showed that depending on the geometry the failure may occur in the pillars or at the mine ceiling.…”