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This research assesses the collapse mechanisms of tufa deposits. The city of Antalya, located on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, has been settled on tufa deposits. By the end of 1980s, the area behind the tufa cliffs became the site of high-rise residential buildings. Some of these buildings have suffered from foundation instabilities, which have given rise to cracking and fissuring of the walls, and overall tilting. The collapsible behaviour upon loading and/or wetting of some tufa deposits has caused foundation settlement.
Voids, bonding of grains and grain properties of the collapsible tufa were investigated using optical and scanning electron microscopes. Our studies indicate that the collapse behaviour of tufa is affected mainly by depositional environment and microfabric. Laboratory tests have been performed in order to determine the index properties and the collapse potential of tufa samples. Young tufa deposits near the surface are weakly bonded with thin films of carbonate cement, giving rise to high void ratios. Analysis of geotechnical parameters has shown that the collapse potential of tufa is closely related to the natural void ratio and the amount of cement binding the grains. 相似文献
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Sedef Cakir Mikdat Kadioglu Nihat Cubukcu 《Theoretical and Applied Climatology》2013,111(3-4):703-711
The ensemble method has long been used to reduce the errors that are caused by initial conditions and/or parameterizations of models in forecasting problems. In this study, neural network (NN) simulations are applied to ensemble weather forecasting. Temperature forecasts averaged over 2 weeks from four different forecasts are used to develop the NN model. Additionally, an ensemble mean of bias-corrected data is used as the control experiment. Overall, ensemble forecasts weighted by NN with feed forward backpropagation algorithm gave better root mean square error, mean absolute error, and same sign percent skills compared to those of the control experiment in most stations and produced more accurate weather forecasts. 相似文献
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Southwest Turkey, along Mediterranean coast, is prone to large earthquakes resulting from subduction of the African plate under the Eurasian plate and shallow crustal faults. Maximum observed magnitude of subduction earthquakes is Mw = 6.5 whereas that of crustal earthquakes is Mw = 6.6. Crustal earthquakes are sourced from faults which are related with Isparta Angle and Cyprus Arc tectonic structures. The primary goal of this study is to assess seismic hazard for Antalya area (SW Turkey) using a probabilistic approach. A new earthquake catalog for Antalya area, with unified moment magnitude scale, was prepared in the scope of the study. Seismicity of the area has been evaluated by the Gutenberg-Richter recurrence relationship. For hazard computation, CRISIS2007 software was used following the standard Cornell-McGuire methodology. Attenuation model developed by Youngs et al. Seismol Res Lett 68(1):58–73, (1997) was used for deep subduction earthquakes and Chiou and Youngs Earthq Spectra 24(1):173–215, (2008) model was used for shallow crustal earthquakes. A seismic hazard map was developed for peak ground acceleration and for rock ground with a hazard level of a 10% probability of exceedance in 50 years. Results of the study show that peak ground acceleration values on bedrock change between 0.215 and 0.23 g in the center of Antalya. 相似文献
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Nihat Dipova 《Environmental Earth Sciences》2011,62(4):883-896
The Bogacay Plain is well known tourist site in Turkey, which is famous for its wide beaches. However, almost 60% of the area
is now occupied by buildings, and some of the high-rise buildings suffer from foundation settlement and tilting. Soils of
the plain are of lagoonal origin; all of the facies which are typical of the lagoonal environment are present in the geological
profile. Because of variation in grain size and development of a weathered crust, the fine-grained soils of the central-lagoon
environment are highly variable with regard to their engineering properties. The compression indices of clays range from 0.25
to 0.55 and correlate relatively well with initial void ratio, liquid limit, and moisture content. Over consolidation ratio
varies between 1.4 and 10 and decreases from the surface down to the base of the weathered-crust zone. The undrained shear
strength of clays decreases with depth for the first 6 m; this behaviour is because of apparent overconsolidation in the weathered-crust
zone. Sedimentary facies and their boundaries can be detected using CPT data; moreover, for profiling and facies-boundary
detection, SPT and seismic sounding are not as effective as CPT. 相似文献
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Nihat Dipova 《Environmental Earth Sciences》2009,59(3):547-560
Cliff erosion and the consequent instabilities present a significant risk to Antalya city (SW-Turkey). Erosional processes
include the chemical action of mixing zone water, the mechanical action of waves, salt erosion and biological degradation.
The rock properties (lithology, stratification, strength, etc.) are the controlling factors to this erosion. The coastal cliffs
of Antalya are composed of tufa type carbonate rocks which occur in a wide range, from collapsible soil to hard rock. The
instability problems of the cliffs of Antalya tufa commonly involve: rock fall, cave collapse, raveling, washout of weakly
lithified tufa, shear failure and secondary toppling. Secondary toppling type instabilities, Culmann type failures and complex
failures, a combination of these two, are widespread on the cliffs. The occurrence of large failures are usually associated
with heavy rainfall as heavy rainfall causes the saturation of pores, increases pore water pressures and reduces the strength
of the rock. Comparison between aerial photographs and topographic maps of different dates, do not provide evidence of considerable
retreat. According to the historical data there has been little or no cliff retreat for 2,000 years. Therefore the erosion
rate of the Antalya tufa cliffs is said to be so very slow that retreat is valid only in a geological timescale. However in
an engineering timescale these cliffs are subjected to instabilities and to local failures causing local retreats. 相似文献
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Deformability of rock masses influencing their behavior is an important geomechanical property for the design of rock structures. Due to the difficulties in determining the deformability of jointed rock masses at the laboratory-scale, various in-situ test methods such as pressuremeter, dilatometer, plate loading tests etc. have been developed. Although these techniques are currently the best and direct methods, they are time-consuming and expensive, and present operational difficulties. In addition, the influence of the test volume on deformation modulus depending on the method employed is also important. For these reasons empirical equations to indirectly estimate the deformation modulus have also been recommended by several investigators as an alternative approach. In this study; the geomechanical quality of weak, heavily jointed, sheared and/or blocky greywacke rock masses, on which very concentrated civil works are continuing at the southern and southwestern parts of Ankara (Turkey), was assessed. The deformation modulus was determined by pressuremeter tests, the possible effects of variables on the derived deformation modulus from the pressuremeter test were evaluated by numerical methods, and the comparisons between the deformation modulus of the greywackes obtained from the pressuremeter tests and their geomechanical quality (GSI and RMR) were made. Numerical simulations revealed that the presence of a disturbed annulus around the borehole causes underestimation of the deformation modulus, while the effect of length to diameter ratio of the pressuremeter probe on the deformation modulus is minor. Based on the geo-engineering characterization assessments, mainly two greywacke rock masses with different geomechanical qualities were identified. Geotechnical quality of one of these rock masses was verified by the back analysis of two slope failures. The empirical equations to indirectly estimate the deformation modulus of the greywackes using their GSI and RMR values yielded high coefficients of correlation. 相似文献
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K. Onder Cetin Nihat Isik Berna Unutmaz 《Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering》2004,24(3):189-197
This paper presents a study on the analyses of seismically induced landslide at Degirmendere Nose during the 1999 Kocaeli (Izmit)-Turkey earthquake. The paper discusses: (1) observed ground deformations and displacements after the earthquake, (2) the results of field investigations by means of borings and in situ index tests including standard penetration tests, static cone penetration tests (CPT) and piezocone tests, (3) analyses of observed landslide mechanisms by a suite of methods and (4) potential effects of soil liquefaction rupture on the observed landslide mechanism. 相似文献
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Tailings, waste products of the ore-dressing processes, are usually stored in a slurry form and pumped into sedimentation pond which is surrounded by natural heights and/or artificial walls. The database of International Commission of Large Dams and United Nations Environment Programme showed that several hundreds of tailings dam have failed since 1910. One of the reasons of these failures is slope instability. Construction of mine tailings dams in Turkey has started to increase, particularly in the recent decade. This paper focuses the study undertaken to assess the geotechnical characteristics and stability of downstream slope of a tailings dam at a copper-zinc mine in the Black Sea Region of Turkey. At the mine site there are two tailings dams located at two different elevations. The upper dam was completely filled and is out of service. Increasing amount of tailings filling the pond of the lower dam resulted in a limited storage, and therefore, it has been decided that heightening of the dam about 7 m to improve its storage facility would be necessary. For the purpose, a series of investigations in the vicinity of the tailings dam and some geomechanical laboratory tests were carried in conjunction with the use of empirical methods to determine mechanical properties of the current dam material, tailings and the rockfill material that will be used for heightening of the dam. The results of the static and pseudo-static stability analyses based on the methods of limit equilibrium and numerical modelling indicated that circular and non-circular failures are the most critical modes of failure for the dam and safety factor gradually decreases when the tailings rise up to a specific elevation in the pond. However, the ranges of the calculated safety factors from both methods are considerably similar and suitable for heightening of the dam by 7 m in terms of stability. The results suggest that any instability is not expected under both static and dynamic conditions after the current height of the tailings dam is increased by 7 m, if the slope geometry considered in the analyses is not changed and the tailings in the pond do not rise up to an elevation of about 475 m. In addition, magnitude of permanent settlement of the dam due to a probable earthquake was also assessed using two empirical methods and the results from both methods showed similar amount of settlements which were in tolerable limits. 相似文献
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