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An Overview of the Geological and Geotechnical Aspects of the New Railway Line in the Lower Inn Valley
The new railway line in the lower Inn-valley is part of the Brenner railway axis from Munich to Verona (“feeder north”). The first section between...
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Creep Behaviour of Alpine Salt Rock and the Influence of Insoluble Residues in Solution Mining
In Austrian salt mining, brine is won by way of solution mining with the borehole well method. The Alpine salt rock (Haselgebirge) consists of a high...
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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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Analysis of permanent deformation in asphalt mixtures using Mohr–Coulomb criteria
This study aimed to investigate the influence of the internal friction angle on the mechanical properties and resistance to permanent deformation of...
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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...
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Application of Borehole Radar for Monitoring Steam-Enhanced Remediation of a Contaminated Site in Fractured Limestone, Maine, USA
Steam-enhanced remediation (SER) has been successfully tested in porous media to remove DNAPL and LNAPL contaminants. This paper focuses on the use...
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The Belgian High-Speed Railway Soumagne Tunnel Project
This paper aims at explaining the general context in which this 6.5 km single tube tunnel was planned, designed and is today under construction with...
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Determination of the Failure Surface Geometry in Quick Slides Using Balanced Cross Section Techniques - Application to Aznalcóllar Tailings Dam Failure
In a landslide investigation, the location of the failure surface is a difficult task when measures of subsurface displacement are lacking, as it...
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Tunnelling Problems in Older Sand Formations
In its deepest stretch, 60 m below o.d. and water level, the Westerschelde tunnel trace below the estuary in the Southwestern part of the...