1. A Review of Seismic Damage of Mountain Tunnels and Probable Failure Mechanisms

   • Nishant Roy
   • Rajib Sarkar

   State-of-the-Art Review 17 September 2016 Pages: 1 - 28

   

2. Hydraulic In situ Testing for Mining and Engineering Design: Packer Test Procedure, Preparation, Analysis and Interpretation

   • Yohannes Yihdego

   State-of-the-Art Review 01 November 2016 Pages: 29 - 44

   

3. Rock Mass Stability Investigation Around Tunnels in an Underground Mine in USA

   • Yan Xing
   • P. H. S. W. Kulatilake
   • L. A. Sandbak

   Original paper 03 September 2016 Pages: 45 - 67

   

4. Monitoring of Three-dimensional Additional Stress and Strain in Shield Segments of Former Tunnels in the Construction of Closely-Spaced Twin Tunnels

   • Shi-ming Gao
   • Jian-ping Chen
   • Wei Wang

   Original Paper 08 September 2016 Pages: 69 - 81

   

5. Model Establishment for Ponding in Coal Mining Subsidence Areas and its Prediction: Case Study of Northern Jining, China

   • Fanxuan Zeng
   • Kan Wu
   • Liang Li

   Original paper 02 September 2016 Pages: 83 - 89

   

6. Performance of a Pier Group Foundation in Swelling Rock

   • Gennaro Marino
   • Abdolreza Osouli
   • Iman Shafii

   Original paper 06 September 2016 Pages: 91 - 109

   

7. Heave Studies on Fly Ash-Stabilised Expansive Clay Liners

   • B. R. Phanikumar
   • M. Uma Shankar

   Original paper 13 September 2016 Pages: 111 - 120

   

8. Assessment of the Effects of Freeze–Thaw and Salt Crystallization Ageing Tests on Anahita Temple Stone, Kangavar, West of Iran

   • M. Heidari
   • M. Torabi-Kaveh
   • H. Mohseni

   Original paper 15 September 2016 Pages: 121 - 136

   

9. Behavior of a Simulated Collapsible Soil Modified with XPS-Cement Mixtures

   • M. Arabani
   • Behnam Askari Lasaki

   Original paper 21 November 2016 Pages: 137 - 155

   

10. Improving Collar Zone Fragmentation by Top Air-Deck Blasting Technique

    • Eugie Kabwe

    Original paper 30 September 2016 Pages: 157 - 167

    

11. Analyses of Inclined Cracks Neighboring Two Iso-Path Cracks in Rock-Like Specimens Under Compression

    • Abolfazl Abdollahipour
    • Mohammad Fatehi Marji

    Original paper 01 October 2016 Pages: 169 - 181

    

12. Evolution Mechanism and Rainfall Warning Criteria for Maijianwo Slope in Henan Province, China

    • Yi-heng Pan
    • Jian-ping Chen
    • Fu-lin Tan

    Original paper 11 October 2016 Pages: 183 - 194

    

13. Analysis of Secondary Roof Structure of the Working Face in Shendong Mining Area

    • Shuai Zhao
    • Shiliang Wu
    • Hui Wang

    Original Paper 01 October 2016 Pages: 195 - 202

    

14. Justification of Open Pit Mining Technology for Flat Coal Strata Processing in Relation to the Stratigraphic Positioning Rate

    • M. A. Tyulenev
    • T. N. Gvozdkova
    • E. A. Garina

    Original paper 29 September 2016 Pages: 203 - 212

    

15. Studying Hygienic Status of Mechanized Long Wall Face from the Perspective of the Existing Dust Containing Silica in Tabas Coal Mine

    • Hossein Arasteh
    • Gholamreza Saeedi

    Original paper 04 October 2016 Pages: 213 - 224

    

16. Mining Method Selection and Optimization for Hanging-Wall Ore-Body at Yanqianshan Iron Mine, China

    • Kai Liu
    • Wancheng Zhu
    • Xige Liu

    Original paper 17 October 2016 Pages: 225 - 241

    

17. Hydraulic Conductivity of Fly Ash-Amended Mine Tailings

    • Sultan A. Alhomair
    • Mohammad H. Gorakhki
    • Christopher A. Bareither

    Original paper 12 October 2016 Pages: 243 - 261

    

18. Mechanism of the Mudstone Tunnel Failures Induced by Expansive Clay Minerals

    • Houjiang Zhang
    • Amoussou Coffi Adoko
    • Yuyong Jiao

    Original paper 12 October 2016 Pages: 263 - 275

    

19. Comparison of Numerical and Analytical Liquefaction Analyses of Tailings

    • M. James
    • M. Aubertin

    Original Paper 18 October 2016 Pages: 277 - 291

    

20. Storm Water Scouring Simulation Analysis on Vegetated Slope

    • Xiaojuan YU

    Original Paper 14 October 2016 Pages: 293 - 301

    

21. Experimental Research on Mechanical Property of Phyllite Tunnel Surrounding Rock Under Different Moisture State

    • Kaifeng Hu
    • Qian Feng
    • Xutao Wang

    Original paper 18 October 2016 Pages: 303 - 311

    

22. Development of Synthetic Rock Mass Bonded Block Models to Simulate the Behaviour of Intact Veined Rock

    • Alexandr Turichshev
    • John Hadjigeorgiou

    Original paper 19 October 2016 Pages: 313 - 335

    

23. Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Mechanical Behaviors of Cemented Soil–Rock Mixture

    • Lei Jin
    • Yawu Zeng
    • Yang Ye

    Original paper 19 October 2016 Pages: 337 - 354

    

24. Undrained Vertical Bearing Capacity Factors for Ring Shallow Footings

    • Sadok Benmebarek
    • Insaf Saifi
    • Naima Benmebarek

    Original Paper 24 October 2016 Pages: 355 - 364

    

25. Risk Assessment and Estimation of TBM Penetration Rate Using RES-Based Model

    • Hadi Fattahi
    • Ali Moradi

    Original Paper 26 October 2016 Pages: 365 - 376

    

26. Segmented Loop Algorithm of Theoretical Calculation of Trajectory of Rockfall

    • Muhammad Irfan
    • Yulong Chen

    Original paper 01 November 2016 Pages: 377 - 384

    

27. Research on Rock Strength Prediction Based on Least Squares Support Vector Machine

    • Wen Li
    • Zhuoying Tan

    Original paper 31 October 2016 Pages: 385 - 393

    

28. The Design of the Large Blastholes Pattern by Analyzing of Fragmentation of Blasted Rocks in Sarcheshmeh Copper Mine

    • Mehdi Hosseini
    • Zahra Naderi Namvar

    Original paper 26 October 2016 Pages: 395 - 402

    

29. Nonlinear Visco-Elasto-Plastic Model for Surrounding Rock Incorporating the Effect of Intermediate Principal Stress

    • Jin-feng Zou
    • Ming-yao Xia
    • Yuan Xu

    Original paper 28 October 2016 Pages: 403 - 423

    

30. Field Investigation of the November to December 2015 Earthquake Swarm in West Halmahera, Indonesia

    • Endra Gunawan
    • Firza Ghozalba
    • Sri Hidayati

    Original paper 25 October 2016 Pages: 425 - 432

    

31. An Improved Gas Permeability Evolution Model of Coal Containing Gas with Klinkenberg Effect

    • Jiajia Liu
    • Kai Wang
    • Aitao Zhou

    Original Paper 31 October 2016 Pages: 433 - 443

    

32. Prediction of Laboratory Peak Shear Stress Along the Cohesive Soil–Geosynthetic Interface Using Artificial Neural Network

    • Prasenjit Debnath
    • Ashim Kanti Dey

    Original paper 07 November 2016 Pages: 445 - 461

    

33. Deterioration of Travertine Samples Due to Magnesium Sulfate Crystallization Pressure: Examples from Iran

    • Ahmad Zalooli
    • Mashala Khamehchiyan
    • Amin Jamshidi

    Original paper 10 November 2016 Pages: 463 - 473

    

34. The Effect of Diesel Fuel Pollution on the Efficiency of Soil Stabilization Method

    • H. Ghasemzadeh
    • M. Tabaiyan

    Original paper 05 November 2016 Pages: 475 - 484

    

35. Influences of Blasting Sequence on the Vibration Velocity of Surface Particles: A Case Study of Qingdao Metro, China

    • He Ma
    • Hailiang Wang
    • Xiao Ma

    Original paper 19 November 2016 Pages: 485 - 492

    

36. Downdrag Force Analysis for Seismic Soil–Pile–Structure Interaction

    • Haiping Yuan
    • Ying Li

    Technical note 17 September 2016 Pages: 493 - 501

    

37. Geotechnical Characterization of Road Cut Hill Slope Forming Unconsolidated Geo-materials: A Case Study

    • L. K. Sharma
    • R. K. Umrao
    • T. N. Singh

    Technical note 24 September 2016 Pages: 503 - 515

    

38. Estimation of Solute Concentrations in Micro-pore and Macro-pore Solutions of Compacted Bentonite–Sand Mixtures

    • K. Ravi
    • Sudhakar M. Rao

    Technical note 28 January 2017 Pages: 517 - 525

    

39. Role of Vp/Vs and Poisson’s Ratio in the Assessment of Foundation(s) for Important Civil Structure(s)

    • Sudipta Bhowmick

    Technical note 19 October 2016 Pages: 527 - 534

    

40. Discussion of “Observation of Ground Movement with Existing Pile Groups Due to Tunneling in Sand Using Centrifuge Modelling” by Ittichai Boonsiri and Jiro Takemura

    • Alec M. Marshall
    • Andrea Franza

    Comments/Discussions and Replies Open access 02 September 2016 Pages: 535 - 539

    

41. Acknowledgement of Reviewers

    Acknowledgement 12 January 2017 Pages: 541 - 545