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Representative presentation: Risk assessment of collapse in shallow caverns using numerical modeling of block interactions with DDA: Suggested approach and case studies​. International Top-level Forum on Engineering Science and Technology Development Strategy — Safe Construction and Risk Management of Major Underground Engineering. Chinese Academy of Engineering. May 17 – 19, 2012. Wuhan, China. Keynote address.

Selected articles:

Hatzor, Y. H., I. Wainshtein, and D. Bakun Mazor, 2010. Stability of shallow karstic caverns in blocky rock masses. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences. Vol. 47, pp. 1289 – 1303.

Bakun-Mazor, D., Hatzor, Y. H. and Dershowitz, W. S. 2009. Modeling mechanical-layering effects on stability of underground openings in jointed sedimentary rocks. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences. Vol. 46, No. 2, pp: 262-271.

Tsesarsky, M. and Hatzor, Y. H., 2006. Tunnel roof deflection as a function of joint spacing and friction in blocky rock masses – a parametric study using Discontinuous Deformation Analysis (DDA). Tunneling and Underground Space Technology. Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 29-45.

Hatzor, Y. H., Talesnick, M. L., and M. Tsesarsky, 2002. Continuum and Discontinuum Stability Analysis of the Bell Shaped Caverns at Bet Guvrin, Israel. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences. Vol. 39, No. 7, pp. 867-886.​​