Fuzzy-interaction matrices method as a new approach for evaluating the durability of building stone

Abstract

The Rock Engineering System (RES) has been widespread among the geologists as an analytical method of evaluation of complicated engineering processes. In this study, fuzzy mathematics is used in the coding of the matrix and in calculating of the weight of these parameters (rock engineering parameters). A new system suggested in this study, Fuzzy-RES, is used to estimate durability of the volcanic rocks stonewalls moderated landscape built in 1970 in Karadeniz Technical University(KTU), Trabzon NE Turkey. The meaningful statically relationships between fuzzy durability values obtained using this new method for the samples investigated and rock durability indicators. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.