Advances in Civil Engineering

Deep Rock Behaviour in Engineering Environments


Publishing date
01 Jan 2021
Status
Published
Submission deadline
14 Aug 2020

Lead Editor

1Southeast University, Nanjing, China

2China University of Mining & Technology, Beijing, China

3Curtin University, Perth, Australia

4Nagasaki University, Nagaski, Japan


Deep Rock Behaviour in Engineering Environments

Description

With the global growth in population and subsequent growth in industrial activities, projects are shifted to an increasingly underground depth. In engineering fields, such as transportation, oil and gas extraction /storage, and mining activities, there has been a growing number of projects occurring in deep rock formations. Deep rocks are under high in situ stresses, and excavation, tunnelling, and drilling all result in unloading external disturbance during and after construction. Abnormal failures of surrounding rocks (cracking, rock burst, spalling, slabbing) are frequently being reported in deep rock engineering structures and could potentially be disastrous for the safety of underground equipment and working staff. The mechanisms of such rock instabilities are worthy of investigation.

There is increasing interest in investigating the characteristics and mechanisms of deep rock failure by means of experiments and numerical simulations. In addition, the energy storage, consumption, and distribution phenomena always exist in rock fracturing progression. Rock fracturing can be essentially regarded as a progressive failure process driven by energy. Thus, more and more researchers are paying attention to the energy evolution behaviours in rock destruction and deformation, and a more comprehensive and in-depth understanding of rock failure. Hence, it is important to better characterize various types of rocks under simulated in situ stress conditions.

This Special Issue will be focused on publishing original research articles and reviews on the latest findings concerning the mechanical characteristics of rocks under various construction and storage environments. Among the topics to be highlighted are the mechanical properties and fracture behaviour.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

  • Mechanical properties and fracture behaviour of deep rock
  • Rock failure behaviour under multi field coupling and multi-scale systems
  • Dynamic failure characteristics and constitutive properties of deep rock
  • Mechanical behaviours of rock fractures during shearing
  • Energy evolution characteristics during rock fracturing
  • Experimental or numerical simulation of rockbursts
  • Failure mechanism of spalling in deep tunnels
  • Rock and structure response under blast and impulsive loading
  • Prevention and control of disasters in deep rock engineering

Articles

  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2020
  • - Article ID 8848900
  • - Research Article

Numerical Modelling of Interaction between Hydraulic Fractures and Natural Fractures by Using the Extended Finite Element Method

Peilun Li | Yan Dong | ... | Peichao Li
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2020
  • - Article ID 8893971
  • - Research Article

Research on Stress Threshold of Deep Buried Coal Rock under Quasi-Static Strain Rate Based on Acoustic Emission

Qijun Hao | Xiaohui Liu | ... | Xiaoping Zhao
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2020
  • - Article ID 8874081
  • - Research Article

Analysis of Support Design in Weak Rock Drift Using a Systematic Approach

Xingdong Zhao | Shujing Zhang | ... | Pengqiang Zhang
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2020
  • - Article ID 8867809
  • - Research Article

Experimental Research on the Mechanical Characteristics and the Failure Mechanism of Coal-Rock Composite under Uniaxial Load

Ke Yang | Zhen Wei | ... | Wenjie Liu
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2020
  • - Article ID 8831486
  • - Research Article

Influencing Factor Analysis on the Anomalously Low-Friction Effect in the Block Rock Mass

Liping Li | Jinpeng Wu | ... | Jupeng Tang
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2020
  • - Article ID 8894286
  • - Research Article

Design and Verification of a Deep Rock Corer with Retaining the In Situ Temperature

Zhiqiang He | Heping Xie | ... | Jianping Yang
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2020
  • - Article ID 8814365
  • - Research Article

Stability Mechanism and Repair Method of U-Shaped Steel Reverse Arch Support in Soft Floor Roadway

Chao Wang | Xiaoyi Chen | ... | Yongping Wu
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2020
  • - Article ID 8839819
  • - Research Article

Experimental Study on Adsorption Pore Structure and Gas Migration of Coal Reservoir Using Low-Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Jiazhuo Li | Penghui Guo | ... | Zhenhua Jiao
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2020
  • - Article ID 8820158
  • - Research Article

Investigating the Failure Mechanism of Jointed Rock Slopes Based on Discrete Element Method

Chao Peng | Qifeng Guo | ... | Jiliang Pan
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2020
  • - Article ID 8818242
  • - Research Article

Experimental Study on Deformation and Acoustic Emission Characteristics of Arch Roadway under Different Unloading Rates

Gongyu Hou | Jinping Liang | ... | Xi Yang
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