Drip sealing of tunnels in hard rock: A new concept for the design and evaluation of permeation grouting

Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 114-121

  Butrón, Christian ^a   Gustafson, Gunnar ^a   Fransson, Åsa ^a   Funehag, Johan ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cement; Dripping; Grouting design; Grouting evaluation; Hard rock; Silica sol

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISATION; COLLOIDAL SILICA; CORRELATION LENGTHS; DESIGN PROCESS; DRIPPING; FLOW SYSTEMS; GROUT HOLE; GROUTING EFFICIENCY; HARD ROCKS; NEW CONCEPT; PERMEATION GROUTING; PRESSURE VOLUMES; RAILWAY TUNNELS; SILICA SOL; SILICA SOLS; STRUCTURED APPROACH; TRANSMISSIVITY; WATER PRESSURE TEST;

CEMENTS; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; DESIGN; GROUTING; RAILROAD TUNNELS; ROCKS; ROOFS; SILICA; SOLS; WIND TUNNELS;

MORTAR;

CEMENT; GROUTING; HARD ROCK; RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION; TUNNEL DESIGN; TUNNELING; UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTION;

EID: 73749084007     PISSN: 08867798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tust.2009.09.008     Document Type: Article

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