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Overview

Yossef H. Hatzor is affiliated with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Engineering, with significant contributions to the subfields of Geophysics, Mechanics of Materials, as well as Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. The scientist's work also spans areas related to Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, and Mechanical Engineering.

The research topics covered include earthquake and tectonic studies, Rock Mechanics and Modeling, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Landslides and related hazards, Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, and Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques.

Frequent co-authors in their work include Doron Morad, Amir Sagy, Vladimir Lyakhovsky, Yair Gordin, and Harold J Vinegar.

Publication venues where Yossef H. Hatzor has frequently contributed include Geophysical Research Letters, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, and Tectonophysics.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Yossef H. Hatzor are:

  • "Fault roughness controls sliding instability," 2022, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • "Thermally-Induced Wedging-Ratcheting Failure Mechanism in Rock Slopes," 2020, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering
  • "Stress Heterogeneity and the Onset of Faulting Along Geometrically Irregular Faults," 2022, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "The significance of displacement control mode in direct shear tests of rock joints," 2020, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences
  • "Kinematics and geometry of normal faults at the margins of pull-apart basins: An example from the Dead Sea Basin," 2023, Tectonophysics

Best Publications

  • Dynamic stability analysis of jointed rock slopes using the DDA method: King Herod's Palace, Masada, Israel

    Y.H. Hatzor;A.A. Arzi;Y. Zaslavsky;A. Shapira

  • The Influence of Porosity on Tensile and Compressive Strength of Porous Chalks

    V. Palchik;Y. H. Hatzor

  • The influence of grain size and porosity on crack initiation stress and critical flaw length in dolomites

    Y.H. Hatzor;V. Palchik

  • Crack damage stress as a composite function of porosity and elastic matrix stiffness in dolomites and limestones

    V. Palchik;Y.H. Hatzor

  • Mechanical anisotropy of columnar jointed basalts: An example from the Baihetan hydropower station, China

    Quan Jiang;Xia-ting Feng;Yossef H. Hatzor;Xian-jie Hao

  • Numerical analysis of block stone displacements in ancient masonry structures: A new method to estimate historic ground motions

    Ronnie Kamai;Ronnie Kamai;Yossef H. Hatzor

  • Tunnel roof deflection in blocky rock masses as a function of joint spacing and friction - A parametric study using discontinuous deformation analysis (DDA)

    Michael Tsesarsky;Yossef H. Hatzor

  • Continuous and discontinuous stability analysis of the bell-shaped caverns at Bet Guvrin, Israel

    Y.H Hatzor;M Talesnick;M Tsesarsky

  • Modeling mechanical layering effects on stability of underground openings in jointed sedimentary rocks

    Dagan Bakun-Mazor;Yossef H. Hatzor;William S. Dershowitz

  • The validity of dynamic block displacement prediction using DDA

    Y.H Hatzor;A Feintuch

  • The elastic deformability and strength of a high porosity, anisotropic chalk

    M.L. Talesnick;Y.H. Hatzor;M. Tsesarsky

  • Thermally vs. seismically induced block displacements in Masada rock slopes

    Dagan Bakun-Mazor;Yossef H. Hatzor;Steven D. Glaser;J. Carlos Santamarina

  • Constraints on the strength of the upper crust from stress inversion of fault slip data

    Ze'ev Reches;Gidon Baer;Yossef Hatzor

  • The stability of a laminated Voussoir beam: Back analysis of a historic roof collapse using DDA

    Yossef H. Hatzor;Ron Benary

  • Dynamic Displacement of a Block on an Inclined Plane: Analytical, Experimental and DDA Results

    M. Tsesarsky;Y. H. Hatzor;N. Sitar

  • Microstructure effects on microcracking and brittle failure of dolomites

    Yossef.H. Hatzor;Alon Zur;Yaakov Mimran

  • Stability of shallow karstic caverns in blocky rock masses

    Yossef H. Hatzor;Ilia Wainshtein;Dagan Bakun Mazor

  • A New Viscous Boundary Condition in the Two-Dimensional Discontinuous Deformation Analysis Method for Wave Propagation Problems

    Huirong Bao;Yossef H. Hatzor;Xin Huang

  • Fault roughness controls sliding instability

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  • Large-scale infiltration experiments into unsaturated stratified loess sediments: Monitoring and modeling

    Haim Gvirtzman;Eyal Shalev;Ofer Dahan;Yossef H. Hatzor

  • A microstructure-based failure criterion for Aminadav dolomites

    Y.H. Hatzor;V. Palchik

  • Constraining paleo PGA values by numerical analysis of overturned columns

    Gony Yagoda-Biran;Yossef H. Hatzor

  • Rockburst Generation in Discontinuous Rock Masses

    Ben-Guo He;Ravit Zelig;Yossef H. Hatzor;Xia-Ting Feng

Frequent Co-Authors

Harold J. Vinegar
Harold J. Vinegar Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Xia-Ting Feng
Xia-Ting Feng Northeastern University
Rivka Amit
Rivka Amit Geological Survey of Israel
Shaojun Li
Shaojun Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ze'ev Reches
Ze'ev Reches University of Oklahoma
Quan Jiang
Quan Jiang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Gidon Baer
Gidon Baer Geological Survey of Israel
Vladimir Lyakhovsky
Vladimir Lyakhovsky Geological Survey of Israel
Nicholas Sitar
Nicholas Sitar University of California, Berkeley
Larry W. Lake
Larry W. Lake The University of Texas at Austin

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