...Spandan Sahu; Jagdish Prasad Sahoo; Gaurav Tiwari This paper presents the stability of an unlined circular tunnel in heavily fractured rock mass subjected to surcharge loading on the ground surface. The rock mass is considered to be homogeneous and isotropic, and obeys the Hoek–Brown failure...

...Hisham T. Eid, PhD; Mohammed Z. E. B. Elshafie, PhD; Barry O'Sullivan, MSc; Mohamed E. Khalil, BSc; Alhassan Mahmoud, BSc; Reiner Stollberg, PhD Through analysing a significant number of case histories, ranges of applications of dewatering techniques for randomly fractured rock are proposed...

...Anjerick Topacio; Yit-Jin Chen; Kok-Kwang Phoon; Chong Tang Representative compression interpretation criteria were analysed to assess their relative merits and interrelationships when applied to drilled shafts socketed into rocks. Results of load tests around the world were gathered and collated...

...A R PICKLES; R TOSEN © Thomas Telford and ICE 1998 HONG KONG AIRPORT AUTHORITY LAND RECLAMATION SETTLEMENT AIRPORTS CONSTRUCTION SITES GROUND CONDITIONS PREDICTION TESTS IN SITU LABORATORIES RESIDUAL GEOLOGY CRUST CLAYS SILT GRAVEL SAND FILL ROCKS ROCKFILL...

...A BINNS © Thomas Telford and ICE 1998 AIG CONSULTANTS SOILS ROCKS SOFT CORING ROTARY GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING GEOTECHNICS CORES DRILLING EQUIPMENT METHODS WEAK WIRELINE INVESTIGATIONS BITS BARRELS PLASTIC LINERS SITE INVESTIGATION DRILLHOLES BOREHOLES FLUIDS...

...F TATSUOKA; K OCHI; T TSUBOUCHI; Y KOHATA; L WANG © Thomas Telford and ICE 1997 TOKYO UNIVERSITY JAPAN RAILWAY TECHNICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE TOKYO CONSTRUCTION ROCKS SOFT SEDIMENTARY EXCAVATIONS UNDERGROUND EXPERIMENTS SHAFTS TUNNELS UNFRACTURED UNWEATHERED MUDSTONE...

...N C CONSOLI Comparison of the measured and predicted performance of tailings sedimentation Proc. Instn Civ. Engrs Geotech. Engng, 1997, 125, July, 179±187 Paper 11228 N. C. Consoli, PhD Written discussion closes 16 September 1997 j The by-product of processing rock for the purpose...

...C M HABERFIELD Pressuremeter testing in weak rock and cemented sand Proc. Instn Civ. Engrs Geotech. Engng, 1997, 125, July, 168±178 C. M. Haber®eld, BSc, BE(Hons), PhD, MIEAust j The analysis of pressuremeter tests in weak rock and cemented sand poses a number of problems that cannot be overcome...

... IN FULL DISPLACEMENT SHEAR MODULUS ELASTICITY LOADING STRAIN THEORY CONDITIONS EXPANSION CAVITY CLAYS SAND ROCKS DRAINED UNDRAINED SOILS SOIL PROPERTIES PROBES STRENGTH MENARD ANGLES SHEARING RESISTANCE PRESSUREMETER TESTING PART I1 tion of settlement from penetrometer tests...

... and the shield induced by cable vibration. 19. Vibration transducers. Twotypes of piezo-electric accelerometer @&K types 4370 and 4384) were used for monitoring rock bolt vibration. They were axially mounted on the upper load distribution plate of the load cell as shown inFig. 2. 20. Accelerometers of different...

... POCKETS DRILLS RIGS SOILS CLAYS SILT SAND GRAVEL ROCKS CALIBRATION MENARD Pressuremeter testing in ground investigation Part I-site operations Proc. Instn Civ. Engrs Geotech. Engng, 1996, 119,Apr., 96-108 Ground Board EurIng B. G. Clarke, BSc, PhD, MICE, CEng, FGS Geotechnical Engineering...

...M C MATTHEWS; V S HOPE; C R I CLAYTON; RAYLEIGH GROUND STIFFNESS PROFILES material is brought to failure. Weak rocks display a more linear stress-strain behaviour and hence the loss of stiffness with increasing strain is much less than for most soils. 3. Themeasurement of stiffness using seismic...

... FLOODS SOILS ROCKS MEASURES DRIVING BORES GROUTING SEABED NEOGENE SEDIMENTARY INTRUSION IGNEOUS DYKES SOFTENING FAULTS WATER INFLOW INFILL EXCAVATIONS LAYERS SEALING GROUTS SEIKAN JAPAN ASIA Extraordinary inundation accidentisn Proc. Instn Civ. Engrs the Seikan...

... powerhouse without causing any visible or invisible damage to the powerhouse complex due to ground vibration or fly rock. A muffle bucket, designed on the basis of dynamic load concept was used both for the muffling and loading operations.The bucket displacement due to throw of rock fragments and the average...

...M LONG © Thomas Telford and ICE 1995 OVE ARUP PILES STEEL BEHAVIOUR TUBULAR DRIVEN MUDSTONE LAMINATED JETTIES INSTALLATION DRIVING TESTS RESISTANCE FAILURES REDRIVING ROCKS BEDROCK GEOLOGY SITES DESIGN CONSTRUCTION FOUNDATIONS REMEDIAL ACTION SITE INVESTIGATION...

...I W JOHNSTON © Thomas Telford and ICE 1995 VICTORIA TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY MELBOURNE ROCKS SOFT PROPERTIES ENGINEERING RATIONAL DETERMINATION MATERIALS BEHAVIOUR LABORATORIES IN SITU TESTING TESTS LOADS DRAINAGE PLATES SHEAR PRESSUREMETERS INSTRUMENTS INSTRUMENTATION...

... This Papergives details of the usoef a 3. Permeabilityandgroundwatermovement Written discussion portable magnetometer in theinvestiga- within rocks are greatly enhanced by zoonfes closes 15 November 1994 tion of disused quarriesas potential land- fractured rock, often associated with faulting. fill sites...

...I W JOHNSTON; E A NOVELLO © Thomas Telford and ICE 1994 VICTORIA TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY MELBOURNE DAMES & MOORE SOIL MECHANICS ROCK MECHANICS SOILS ROCKS MECHANICS SOFT TECHNOLOGY GEOTECHNICS MATERIALS COMPRESSIBILITY CHARACTERISTICS STRENGTH DEFECTS BEHAVIOUR...