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Suitability Maps of Underground Construction in the Province of South-Holland
Subsurface suitability maps give an insight in both the geology and the physical and chemical soil properties. The geology and soil properties...
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Smart Site Investigations Save Money!
More appropriate and well-timed site investigations have a major positive impact in order to reduce the risk of failure. Design and construction of...
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Various Assessments of the Characteristic Values of Soil Cohesion and Friction Angle: Application to New Caledonian Laterite
In situ measurements, as well as laboratory tests, yield varied information on ground material. In order to carry out computations, it is necessary...
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Soil Investigation Aspects of a Complex Metro Project in Amsterdam
The municipality of Amsterdam wishes to reduce the level of car traffic within the City Centre. As a consequence the public transport is to be...
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Effects of the Determination of Characteristic Values of Soil Parameters
In April 1996 the German version of the Eurocode EC 7 “Geotechnical design - General rules” was published as a “pre-standard”, entitled V ENV 1997-1....
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Austrian Guideline for Geomechanical Design of Tunnels - Necessity for Cooperation between Geologists, Geotechnical and Civil Engineers
Rising competitive pressure in the construction business, ever tighter schedules being set up by the clients and ongoing disputes between engineering...
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Soil Investigations Requirements from the Construction Industry
When the majority of soil investigation methods concentrate on the characterization of the soil in terms of soil-structure interactions or structural...
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Numerical Modelling of Seismic Slope Stability
Earthquake ground-motions recorded worldwide have shown that many morphological and geological structures (topography, sedimentary basin) are prone...
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Cut-and-Cover Tunnel below Boulevard River Meuse, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Paper describes the geotechnical risks and soil investigations related to design and con- struction of the cut-and-cover tunnel below the western...
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12 Entropy Production in the Planetary Context
In this paper I review some applications of nonequilibrium thermodynamics to planetary science. Of particular importance are the horizontal and...
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10 Thermodynamics of the Ocean Circulation: A Global Perspective on the Ocean System and Living Systems
In this chapter, we investigate thermodynamics in a global-scale open ocean circulation and discuss the physical properties of “living systems”, that...
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16 Temperature, Biogenesis, and Biospheric Self-Organization
We argue that the biosphere has evolved deterministically as a selforganized system, given the initial conditions of the Sun-Earth system. With...
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8 Entropy Production of Atmospheric Heat Transport
We examine the rate of entropy produced by the atmospheric general circulation and the hypothesis that it adjusts itself towards a macroscopic state...
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18 Insights from Thermodynamics for the Analysis of Economic Processes
The laws of thermodynamics constrain transformation of materials and energy, and thus have implications for economic processes. This paper provides...
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1 Entropy Production by Earth System Processes
Degradation of energy to lower temperatures and the associated production of entropy is a general direction for Earth system processes, ranging from...
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15 Coupled Evolution of Earth’s Atmosphere and Biosphere
Earth’s climate has remained conducive to life for more than 3.5 billion years, probably because of higher concentrations of CO2 and CH4 greenhouse...
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Prediction of the Uniaxial Compressive Strength of a Greywacke by Fuzzy Inference System
Rock engineering projects require the uniaxial compressive strength of intact rock. High quality core samples are needed for the application of...
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Basic Soil Properties of a Number of Artificial Clay - Sand Mixtures Determined as a Function of Sand Content
Soil mixtures were composed from the Polish Neogene clays occurring on the Polish Lowland and the fine-grained dune sand in weight proportions of the...
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Rock Splitting in the Surrounds of Underground Openings: An Experimental Approach Using Triaxial Extension Tests
The phenomenon of rock splitting, i. e. the tensile crack formation under general pressure conditions, may be explained by different theoretical...
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Hydraulic Monitoring of Low-Permeability Argillite at the Meuse/Haute Marne Underground Research Laboratory
ANDRA (Agence Nationale pour la Gestion de Déchets Radioactifs) has developed an electromagnetic permanent gauge (EPG) for long term monitoring of...