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Current Issues Relating to the Professional Practice of Engineering Geology in Europe
The continuing internationalisation of the construction industry in which Engineering Geologists work has resulted in significant changes in the way...
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Self-healing of Fractures around Radioactive Waste Disposal in Clay Formations
The feasibility of storing radioactive waste in low permeable clays is studied extensively nowadays. Fracturing and healing of fractures is of great...
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Stability and Subsidence Assessment over Shallow Abandoned Room and Pillar Limestone Mines
In the region of Maastricht, both in The Netherlands and in Belgium, many areas are underlain by abandoned room and pillar mines, which have been...
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Engineering Geological Considerations in Tunnelling through Major Tectonic Thrust Zones - Cases along the Egnatia Motorway, Northern Greece
Tunnelling through tectonic shear zones is always a challenge due to the geometrical complexity and the presence of poor quality rock masses with...
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Contribution of On-Line Tools on Internet for the Teaching of Slopes and Tunnels Stability
We present there, the co-operative works done since several years, for building e-learning tools for slope stability and underground works. The aim...
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Numerical investigation on the deformation of railway embankment under normal faulting
Active faults in the earthquake region are consistently regarded as a potential geological hazard to the construction and operation of railway...
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Java Tomography System (JaTS), a Seismic Tomography Software Using Fresnel Volumes, a Fast Marching Eikonal Solver and a Probabilistic Reconstruction Method: Conclusive Synthetic Test Cases
Problems related to landscape management, natural hazards and civil engineering involve subsurface structures that can be delineated by geophysical...
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Evaluation Concept and Testing Method for Heavy Metal Contaminant Transport in the Underground
The evaluation of the contaminant transport is dictated by the Federal Soil Protection Regulation (BBodSchV, 1999) for sites that are suspected to...
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Relocation of a Problematic Segment of a Natural Gas Pipeline Using GIS-Based Landslide Susceptibility Map**, Hendek (Turkey)
A segment of natural gas pipeline constructed in 1997 to supply natural gas to a steel factory was broken due to a landslide with fire near Hendek,...
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Micro-structure and Swelling Behaviour of Compacted Clayey Soils: A Quantitative Approach
In this paper, the clay aggregate volume and inter-aggregate volume in compacted clayey soils are quantified, on the basis of simple hypothesis,...
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Nonconventional and Simple View of the Soil-Structure Interaction Problem
A mathematical model is proposed for the calculation of settlement and rotation of shallow foundations under combined vertical load and bending...
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Effects of Lime Stabilization on Engineering Properties of Expansive Ankara Clay
With the existing expansive clay in Ankara (Turkey) metropolitan area, some light buildings, road pavements and buried lifelines have suffered some...
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Cross Connections at Pannerdensch Canal Tunnel - Freezing Soil Mass Design and Execution Comparison
The tunnel under the Pannerdensch Canal (The Netherlands) has two strongly differing cross connections. In this article the design of the freezing...
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The Geotechnical Baseline Report as Risk Allocation Tool
Today, timely and adequate attention for the risky subsoil is more than ever necessary for a healthy European infrastructure industry. A key succes...
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Drying-Up of a Natural Spring for Ensuring Stability of an Artificial Slope: Is It Sustainable Development?
Near a small city of the Belgian ‘Ardennes’ (East of Belgium), modification of a natural slope for extension of industrial activities has required an...
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Engineering Geology in International Dredging and Infrastructure
Engineering geology supports the execution of dredging works in all stages. An industry that takes the full profit of his knowledge is the...
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ConsoliTest - Using Surface Waves for Estimating Shear-Wave Velocities in the Dutch Subsurface
ConsoliTest is a geophysical method for estimating geomechanical parameters of the shallow subsurface. The procedure is based on the MASW method...
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Location of Buried Mineshafts and Adits Using Reconnaissance Geophysical Methods
Britain has a long history of mining activity, which stretches back some 3000 years to the excavation of flint in East Anglia. The legacy of this...
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Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal Siting in a Highly Seismic Region on the Mexican Pacific Coast
A new LNG terminal should be built on the Pacific coast of Mexico, one of the most seismic regions in the world. According to International codes, a...
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Leibis/Lichte Dam in Germany
In Thuringia the second highest dam of Germany is under construction (figure 1). The new Leibis/Lichte dam is a 370 m long and 102.5 m high gravity...