P. B. Attewell

Tunnelling Contracts and Site Investigation (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A wide ranging and up-to-date review of experience of tunnelling contracts, particularly those for sewerage and drainage tunnels.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 1995
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781482271416
• Artikelnr.: 54789600

Autorenporträt

Dr P.B. Attewell

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Abbreviations. Tunnelling contracts and site investigation.
Introduction Contracts. Initial investigation phase. Ground investigation.
Contract preparation and tender evaluation. Tunnel construction. Claims and
records. Post-construction phase. References. Bibliography. Supplementary
information on tunnelling contracts and site investigation. Quality
assurance. Hazardous gases with particular reference to those that might be
encountered when tunnelling in coal measures strata. Application of
Bayesian statistics to site investigation. Weak rock. Standard penetration
test and cone penetration test. Mudrocks. Mineralogical composition of
rock. Grout injection. Tunnelling through contaminated ground. Rock quality
designation and other rock mass discontinuity descriptors. Symbols used on
borehole logs. Determination of unconfined compressive strength of rock.
Rising, falling and constant head permeability tests. Rock excavability via
`Q'. Well-point dewatering. Estimation of the form of a long-term (ground
loss plus consolidation) free-ground transverse (normal to the tunnel
centre-line) surface settlement trough. The new Austrian tunnelling method.
Water pollution legislation. Analysis of pressure tunnel in rock. Ground
vibration and noise from civil engineering operations. Sewer and water main
linings. Index.