The presented article tried to utilize the empirical rock mass classifications to rock mass quantification and stability analysis for several open-pit mining projects in Khoy, West-Azerbaijan, NW of Iran. For this purpose, ...

It has been amazing that the Bamu anticline located to the north of Shiraz city and in the simply folded belt of the Zagros mountain ranges, displays overturning layers, so that the oldest outcropped layer, i.e. the Tarbur ...

Road construction projects are considered as the largest infrastructure projects in Countries, which always face the most problems in construction. The longitudinal extent of the projects has caused them to cross different ...

In view of morphology and tectonic situation, the surface of the Europa satellite includes special intricacies. In general, the most noticeable structure on this satellite is linear structures. These structures generally ...

Road construction projects are considered as the largest infrastructure projects in Countries, which always face the most problems in construction. The longitudinal extent of the projects has caused them to cross different ...

Phenomena of land subsidence, increasing the effective stress (σ1) of the body of aquifer sediments have not consolidated. Because the weight of the upper overburden aquifer sediments by the solid and the fluid contained ...

Clayey minerals are considered as the most important factor causing soils swelling, especially fine-grained soils. This phenomenon also causes the destruction of soil structure and texture and in the water vicinity makes ...

Decision-making in energy planning must take into account several aspects due to the increasing complexity of social, technological and economic factors. Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a multi criterion decision ...