Recent experiments in hard rocks to study the excavation response: Implications for the performance of a nuclear waste geological repository

Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 377-394

  Backblom G ^a   Martin, C D ^b  

^a Boliden Mineral AB ^*  (Sweden)

^b LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCAVATION; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; ROCK MECHANICS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES;

CRYSTALLINE HARD ROCK; HYDROGEOLOGICAL RESPONSE;

GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES;

CRYSTALLINE ROCK; EXCAVATION; GRANITE; HARD ROCK; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; REPOSITORY; ROCK MASS RESPONSE;

EID: 0033158028     PISSN: 08867798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0886-7798(99)00053-X     Document Type: Article

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