... Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only explosive equivalent explosive replacement method integral rockfill positioning depth post-explosion settlement reinforced soils subsidence National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China...

...Hasanjan Yimit, MSc; Dan Zhang, PhD; Qi Luo, MSc; Xulong Gong, PhD; Haoyu Wang, MSc; Haiyang Liao, MSc Land subsidence has threatened the safety of municipal infrastructures and even that of inhabitants. As one of the deformation monitoring methods, distributed optical fibre sensing (DOFS...

... of the two coordinate systems, α is the skew angle between the η-axis and line O–O′ and θ is the skew angle between the x-axis and the η-axis. geotechnical engineering subsidence tunnels & tunnelling In the current development of metro...

... 10 2019 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2019 foundations geotechnical engineering subsidence The pagoda of Dinglin Temple, also called the Fang Hill leaning tower, is located at the northwest foot of Fang Hill in the Jiangning district of Nanjing, China. It was initially...

... throughout the layer and there was almost no further increase in cumulative plastic deformation. Figure 3. Cyclic settlement for tests 9, 2 and 3 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2019 foundations silos subsidence Most structures built on fine-grained compressible soils...

.... A numerical study is presented using Plaxis 2D to analyse terrain subsidence on the surface, considering a transversal section to apply a road load, while cavities in the ground increase due to karsticity. Results allow perception of the surface subsidence, associated with the number of cavities, before...

..., fewer economic and environmental impacts, and improved consolidation and drainage efficiency of the soil. 21 11 2017 24 05 2018 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2018 foundations groundwater subsidence Owing to the poor properties of soft ground deposits, they must...

... superposition-based predictions for surface settlement with the outcomes highlighting some inconsistencies. A procedure for predicting both surface and subsurface vertical settlement profiles in the plane transverse to the advancing tunnels in clay is suggested. models (physical) subsidence tunnels...

... to urbanisation-induced land subsidence in Shanghai. Other factors may have contributed to tunnel settlement, such as post-construction settlement due to tunnelling disturbance, cyclic loading of trains, groundwater infiltration and disturbance from nearby construction (Chen et al., 2013 ; Lee et al...

...% of global demand by 2050. For some high-temperature reservoirs, a technical challenge that may constrain deployment is ground subsidence caused by reservoir pressure decline. At the Wairakei–Tauhara geothermal system in New Zealand, an integrated geotechnical-geoscientific investigation of the causes...

...Michael Pender, PhD, FIPENZ, MASCE; Graham Ramsay, PhD, FIPENZ, CPEng; Trystan Glynn-Morris, BSc; Bridget Lynne, PhD; Chris Bromley, MSc Geothermal fluid has been extracted from the Wairakei field in New Zealand since the mid-1950s for electricity generation. This has induced regional subsidence...

... to ensure effective subsurface drainage of the motorway, PVDs were chosen as the method of ground improvement below the surcharge loading and two different drain spacings (1 m and 2 m) were implemented. embankments foundations subsidence NOTATION B equivalent unit cell...

... © 2008 Thomas Telford Ltd 2008 foundations site investigation subsidence NOTATION c _u undrained shear strength c _ui undrained shear strength of intact soil c _um undrained shear strength of soil mass...

... tunnelling in London Clay is proposed. subsidence tunnels & tunnelling NOTATION C thickness of clay above tunnel crown (m) D diameter of tunnel (m) N stability ratio N_c critical stability ratio P length...

..., and was recorded as lying between 1·3 and 2·9 m above the foundation slab level during the installation of the subsurface instrumentation beneath the building. 2 25 10 2005 18 11 2005 © 2007 Thomas Telford Ltd 2007 subsidence tunnels & tunnelling NOTATION D...

..., the design and implementation of a large monitoring system can lead to fruitful results that are reliable, rapid and accurate. excavation subsidence tunnels & tunnelling This paper describes the underlying design principles for the monitoring system specified for Phase II of the King's Cross...

... 2004 Thomas Telford Ltd 2004 field testing & monitoring piles & piling subsidence In September 2001, following an exceptional rainfall event with an estimated return time of about 500 years, a number of ancient buildings located in a restricted area in the historical centre...

...R. S. Pugh Since the introduction by UK insurers of cover for subsidence of the foundations to domestic properties in the early 1970s there has been a considerable rise in both the number of subsidence claims per annum and in the occurrence of claims surges related to clay shrinkage and periods...

... to free draining granular fills. The appropriate test procedures and the derivation of density index are described in BS 1377: Part 4: 1990 clause 4 (British Standards Institution). 8 foundations geotechnical engineering subsidence NOTATION A₁ constant...

... surveys needed, or to assess the need for settlement mitigation or avoidance measures. Potential uncertainties in the assessments are discussed. 07 01 2000 31 05 2000 © 2000 Thomas Telford Ltd 2000 geotechnical engineering groundwater subsidence Notation...