Assessment of Rockfall Hazard and Stabilization of Rock Slope Surface at the World Heritage Ajanta Cave
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Assessment of Rockfall Hazard and Stabilization of Rock
Slope Surface at the World Heritage Ajanta Cave
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| Creator |
Bagde, M. N.
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Slope Stability
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| Description |
The assessment of rock fall hazard of a
natural rock slope surface with ancient rock cave
monuments of historic importance at World-Heritage
site of Ajanta in the state of Maharashtra in India,
embedded in basaltic rock formation is carried out and
presented. In past the site has witnessed many small
and large scale rock falls in the form of boulders which
could cause the loss to the ancient rock caves of
historic importance as well as en-dangering the
visitor’s safety. The main cause of the rock fall is
dislocation of the boulders from the natural rock
surface slopes due to heavy rainfall as well as due to
erosion, rock weathering, trees roots widening etc. In
the present study, the rock slope surface and dislocated
boulders vulnerability to failure risk is carried out with
the Rockfall Hazard Rating System (RHRS) in tandem
with other empirical approaches available for rock
mass classification. The study using rockfall hazard
rating system requires tedious field-work due to the
involvement of a large number of parameters and
long-stretch of the site under question. The detailed
field study is carried out for the evaluation of various
parameters involved in the RHRS as well as that of
various empirical approaches applied. In the case of
the cumulative RHRS score is more than 500 which implies that the slope surface or critical boulder site is
unstable, prone to failure and need immediate attention for remedial measures. Accordingly, stabilization
measures are planned on the priority basis.
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Springer
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2021-01-21
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Article
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Bagde, M. N. (2021) Assessment of Rockfall Hazard and Stabilization of Rock Slope Surface at the World Heritage Ajanta Cave. Geotech Geol Eng (. pp. 3109-3114.
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http://cimfr.csircentral.net/2350/
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