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Hard rock tunnel boring, cutting, drilling and blasting: rock parameters for excavatability
By K. Thuro, R. J. Plinninger
ABSTRACT: Determining tunnel stability is a key issue during preliminary site investigation. In contrast, problems of excavatability have been largely ignored. While the choice of an economic tunnelli
Jan 1, 2003
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Determination of in situdeformation modulus for cemented rockfill
By D. R. Tesarik, F. M. Jones, J. B. Seymour
As part of safety and stability studies at three underground mines in the United States, researchers installed earth pressure cells and embedment strain gauges in cemented rockfill to measure stress a
Jan 1, 2003
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Presidential Address: How the MacArthur- Forrest cyanidation process ensured South Africa's golden future
By C. E. Fivaz
SYNOPSIS Tribute is paid to J.S. MacArthur and the Forrest brothers for their invention. The opinion is expressed that the successful application of their process, not only saved the gold-mining indu
Jan 1, 1988
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Large-scale infrastructure projects. Application of rock mechanics in geotechnical engineering to avoid delays in constrution time and increases of costs—case studies
By W. Wittke
SUMMARY: Geotechnical problems often lead to an increase of construction time and costs for large highway and railway projects. Some reasons, which have led to failures and thus to a delay of construc
Jan 1, 2003
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A parametric study of the discontinuity in rock mass and its influence on tunnel behavior
By D. -H. Park, G. -j. Kim, Y. -J. Park, C. -S. Hong, S. -Y. Choo
To evaluate the quantitative tunnel behavior influenced by characteristics of discontinuity, this pa-per executes the parametric study using 2 and 3-dimensional DEM analysis. First of all, this study
Jan 1, 2003
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What boundary conditions should we apply? Applications to tunneling and to the AECL Underground Research Laboratory
By B. Amadei, F. Tonon
Rock stress measurement is cast in the more general context of the determination of boundary conditions for rock engineering. A study on the effect of elastic anisotropy on underground excavations rev
Jan 1, 2003
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Analysis of water permeation process in rock by X-ray CT
By D. Fukahori, K. Sugawara, A. Sato
X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) is a nondestructive imaging technique, and its efficiency is widely recognized. In the present paper, X-ray CT is successfully applied for the visualization of water per
Jan 1, 2003
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Recent advances in the numerical simulation of tunnel excavation
By Gernot Beer, Christian Dünser, Marcos Noronha
The main findings of the joint research initiative “Numerical Simulation in Tunnelling” and a follow-on project on efficient numerical simulation models for tunnelling are presented. Die wichtigs
Jan 1, 2003
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Characterisation studies of Tectonised Clay shales and implications in the excavation of large size tunnels
By Marco Barla, Mariacristina Bonini, Giovanni Barla
ABSTRACT: The paper describes the characterisation studies of Tectonised Clay Shales at laboratory and in situ scale. The interest relates to tunnelling under squeezing and swelling conditions, in Ita
Jan 1, 2003
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Laboratory simulation of the behaviour of highly stressed mining fronts
By M. C. Bétournay
Strainbursts are common in overstressed brittle rock around deep mine openings. Such failures are characterized by a biaxial state of stress in the plane of the opening boundary. A zone of compressi
Jan 1, 2003
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Underground storage in Sydney, some uncommon rock mechanics features of an uncommon project in Australia
By N. Gatelier, T. You, J. C. Kandel
ABSTRACT: Underground hydrocarbons storage is a very specific domain for the designer. He is usually free to adjust the section, shape and layout to cope with the geological and geotechnical condition
Jan 1, 2003
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Deformability of various granitic rocks from Japan in uniaxial tension
By W. Lin, H. Endo, M. Kwasniewski, A. Kamei, M. Takahashi
Uniaxial tension tests were conducted on specimens of eleven granitic rocks which came from eastern Japan, and included a granite, four granodiorites, four tonalites and two gabbros. The axial and tra
Jan 1, 2003
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Uncertainty in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering—Then and Now
By H. H. Einstein
This paper reviews how uncertainty has been dealt with over the past 40 years using the decision making cycle as a frame of reference. The review of the phases of this cycle, as applied to rockmechani
Jan 1, 2003
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SRC rock mass classification applied to tunnels under high tectonic stress
By L. I. Gonzalez de Vallejo
SRC rockmass classification have been applied to 25 tunnels in Spain and Italy, for which it was found that much heavier supports than those estimated by the RMR index were required. SRC and RMR indi
Jan 1, 2003
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Effects of anisotropy and heterogeneity of rock mass on in-situ permeability tests
By Y. Mitani, M. Zhang, M. Takeda, T. Esaki
Despite their inadequacy, assumptions of isotropy and homogeneity are often applied to the analyses of in situ permeability tests. In this paper, we exam the effects of anisotropy and heterogeneity on
Jan 1, 2003
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Evaluation of the importance of thermo-hydro-mechanical couplings on the performance assessment of a deep underground storage design
By A. Rejeb, A. Millard
ABSTRACT: An evaluation of the importance of the thermo-hydro-mechanical couplings (THM) on the performance assessment of a deep underground storage design has been made as part of the international D
Jan 1, 2003
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Characterization Of Clay Mineral Fractions In Tuffisitic Kimberlite Breccias By X-Ray Diffraction
By J. Morkel
During research on mainly the weathering of kimberlite, it became evident that its mineralogical composition is an important factor in the complex process of physical and chemical disintegration. The
Jan 1, 2006
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Parameter variability in the toppling stability of rock blocks
By J. Muralha
The paper presents the limit equilibrium equations for the analysis of toppling blocks on a rock slope. The safety conditions are assessed by a numeric procedure implemented in an Excel worksheet. The
Jan 1, 2003
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Study of the effects of shaft pillar extraction on a vertical shaft located in highly stratified and poor quality rock masses
By G. du T. Judeel
An investigation was carried out to determine whether a numerical model could be constructed that would produce results that realistically represent actual ground deformations in and around a vertical
Jan 1, 2003
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Coal Pillar Strength Analysis Based on Size at the Time of Failure
By J. N. Van der Merwe
"A major shortcoming of the statistical back-analysis of coal pillar strength is that it relies on the asmined pillar dimensions, not taking into account time-related pillar scaling with subsequent re
Jul 1, 2019