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Influence of technogenic factors on rock slope stability in construction excavations

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1. Technogenic factors are numerous and varied and are particularly hazardous in combination with natural risk factors. Technogenic factors include various changes in the slope geometry, changes in the groundwater level under the influence of construction activities and fluctuations of the reservoir water level, technogenic weathering and unloading processes, the method by which construction operations are conducted, specifically the detonation of explosions, etc.

2. The predictive assessment of the influence of technogenic factors poses special difficulties and, hence, if necessary, can even be done in the postplanning stage to refine original planning decisions. The outcome of predictive assessments is particularly favorable when numerical modeling techniques are used.

3. The computational model must take into account technogenic changes in the physicomechanical properties as a supplement and addition to natural rock integrity zones (zones differing in the degree of influence of exogenic processes on the rock mass).

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Translated from Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitel’stvo, No. 6, pp. 47–50, June, 2000.

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Gorbushina, V.K. Influence of technogenic factors on rock slope stability in construction excavations. Hydrotechnical Construction 34, 314–317 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02766013

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