Feasibility analysis for a radioactive waste repository tunnel

Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 409-426

  Bobet, A ^a   Aristorenas, G ^b   Einstein, H ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEIDLINGER ASSOCIATES INC   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY; ELASTOPLASTICITY; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; ROCK MECHANICS; SHALE; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TUNNEL LININGS; TUNNELS;

GEOLOGIC FORMATIONS;

GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES;

CLAY; ELASTIC PROPERTY; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; REPOSITORY; TUNNELING;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0032194023     PISSN: 08867798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0886-7798(98)00084-4     Document Type: Article

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