Nano-engineered biomaterials: Safety matters and toxicity evaluation

JC Scimeca, E Verron - Materials Today Advances, 2022 - Elsevier
Nanotechnologies have invaded the field of tissue engineering including osteoarticular and
dental tissue, and innovative biomaterials with topographic features engineered at the …

Multistep rocky slope stability analysis based on unmanned aerial vehicle photogrammetry

S Wang, Z Zhang, C Wang, C Zhu, Y Ren - Environmental earth sciences, 2019 - Springer
High-steep slope information collection and multistep rocky slope stability analysis play an
important role in slope engineering. However, traditional on-site investigations suffer from …

Estimation of the REV size for blockiness of fractured rock masses

L Xia, Y Zheng, Q Yu - Computers and Geotechnics, 2016 - Elsevier
The representative elementary volume (REV) is the premise of the continuous-media
method of analysis, and the investigation of the REVs of fractured rock masses is a …

Stability analysis of fractured rock masses based on an extended key block theory considering the forces between blocks and block rotation

H Wang, F Song, Y Chen, T Li, G Ma - Tunnelling and Underground Space …, 2023 - Elsevier
Key block theory is a widely used method in rock engineering for analyzing the stability of
fractured rock masses. However, the traditional theory does not consider the forces between …

Cliff face rock slope stability analysis based on unmanned arial vehicle (UAV) photogrammetry

S Wang, Z Ahmed, MZ Hashmi, W Pengyu - … and Geophysics for Geo …, 2019 - Springer
Rock cliff faces are mostly avoided in rock engineering research, especially where the scale
of the slope exceeds the scale of fracturing present in the rock mass. The research to …

Progressive failure of blocky rock system: geometrical–mechanical identification and rock-bolt support

QH Zhang, QB Liu, SH Wang, HL Liu… - Rock Mechanics and Rock …, 2022 - Springer
Excavation of shallow-buried, hard rock masses usually leads to the instability of rock blocks
delimited by discontinuity planes. Classic block theory only deals with the stability of rock …

Association Rule Mining through Combining Hybrid Water Wave Optimization Algorithm with Levy Flight

Q He, J Tu, Z Ye, M Wang, Y Cao, X Zhou, W Bai - Mathematics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Association rule mining (ARM) is one of the most important tasks in data mining. In recent
years, swarm intelligence algorithms have been effectively applied to ARM, and the main …

Stability analysis of three-dimensional rock blocks based on general block method

L Zhang, T Sherizadeh, Y Zhang, M Sunkpal… - Computers and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The stability of rock blocks is still a key problem in the rock excavation industry and therefore
deserve further research and study. Due to the complicated nature of large-scale, three …

Analysis of removability and stability of rock blocks by considering the rock bridge effect

Y Zheng, L Xia, Q Yu - Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 2015 - cdnsciencepub.com
In traditional block theory, the removability and stability of rock blocks are analyzed
independently; that is, the stability of a removable block is analyzed in detail, and …

A comparison of the application of block theory and 3D block-cutting analysis

QH Zhang, XL Ding, AQ Wu - International Journal of Rock Mechanics and …, 2017 - Elsevier
In hard rock masses, rock destruction is often manifested in the form of the local failure of the
blocks formed due to fracturing. In this paper, we compare the application of block theory …