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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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Influence of Underground Coal Mining on the Environment in Horna Nitra Deposits in Slovakia
Mechanical mining of brown coal takes place in the complicated engineering-geological conditions below the volcanic mountain range Vtacnik and under...
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A Multidisciplinary Approach for the Evaluation of the “Bottegone” Subsidence (Grosseto, Italy)
In January 1999 a subsidence phenomenon took place in Maremma (Italy): an elliptical shaped sinkhole formed, characterised by a diameter of 140 m and...
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Matching Monitoring, Risk Allocation and Geotechnical Baseline Reports
Monitoring ground and construction behaviour is a well-known risk mitigation tool during the construction of many European infrastructure projects....
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Towards Quality Assurance and an Adequate Risk Management in Geotechnical Engineering - Application of Eurocode 7 and DIN 4020 in Engineering Geology
A key issue of engineering geology is the extreme variety of soil and rock, their heterogeneity and at places anisotropy, the fabric of rockmasses,...
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A Constitutive Model for Chemically Sensitive Clays
This paper deals with a chemo-hydro-mechanical (CHM) model for unsaturated clays. The chemo-mechanical effects are described within an elasto-plastic...
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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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Behaviour of the Weak Rock Cut Slopes and Their Characterization Using the Results of the Slake Durability Test
Slopes excavated in argillaceous rocks often show degradation mechanisms and local falls which affect both safety and maintenance costs of the roads....
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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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Investigation of Karst Cavities and Earth Subsidence with Combined Application of Boring and Geophysics in the Progress of High-Speed Railway Routes
In Germany there are a lot of new high-speed railways in planning or under construction. One of these is the new Nuremberg - Ingolstadt railway line...
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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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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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An Earthquake Early Warning System for the Romanian Capital
Although earthquake early warning systems have inherently short warning times between seconds and a minute they become increasingly important as part...
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Nonlinear Seismology - The Seismology of the XXI Century
Nonlinear effects in ground motion during large earthquakes have been a long controversial issue between seismologists and geotechnical engineers....
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The Dead Sea Fault and Its Effect on Civilization
The Dead Sea fault (DSF) is the most impressive tectonic feature in the Middle East. It is a plate boundary, which transfers sea floor spreading in...
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Modelling of Descending Slab Evolution Beneath the SE-Carpathians: Implications for Seismicity
Recent findings from regional seismic tomography and refraction studies and from GPS studies on vertical movements together with extremely high...
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Structure of the Upper Mantle Beneath Northern Eurasia Derived from Russian Deep-Seismic PNE Profiles
From 1968 until 1990, Russian scientists carried out an intensive program of deep seismic sounding across the territory of the former Soviet Union,...
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Petrogenesis of magmatic REE mineral occurrences near Jamestown, Colorado (U.S.A.)
Two magmatic REE-rich occurrences, located near Jamestown, Colorado, and hosted in the Precambrian Longs Peak granite batholith, exhibit unusual...
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Finite-Difference Simulations of the 1927 Jericho Earthquake
Four possible scenarios of the 1927 Jericho earthquake are tested by simulating 75 seconds of 1.5 Hz-wave propagation in a 3D model of the Dead Sea...