Desaturation and structure relationships around drifts excavated in the well-compacted Tournemire's argillite (Aveyron, France)

Engineering Geology

Volumn 90, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 1-16

  Matray, Jean Michel ^a   Savoye, Sébastien ^a   Cabrera, Justo ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

Author keywords

Argillite; Desaturation; EDZ; EdZ; Permeability; Tournemire

Indexed keywords

EXCAVATION; MAPPING; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PETROLOGY; ROCKS; TUNNELS;

DESATURATION; EXCAVATION DAMAGED ZONE; EXCAVATION DISTURBED ZONE; HYDRAULIC TESTING; PNEUMATIC TESTING;

ENGINEERING GEOLOGY;

ARGILLITE; BOREHOLE; CAPILLARY PRESSURE; DRILLING; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; HYDRAULIC HEAD; PERMEABILITY; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SATURATION; TUNNEL;

AVEYRON; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; MASSIF CENTRAL; MIDI-PYRENEES; TOURNEMIRE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33847143736     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2006.09.021     Document Type: Article

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