Impact of tunneling on regional groundwater flow and implications for swelling of clay-sulfate rocks

Engineering Geology

Volumn 117, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 198-206

  Butscher, Christoph ^a   Huggenberger, Peter ^a   Zechner, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Clay sulfate rocks; Groundwater modeling; Regional groundwater flow; Swelling; Tunnel engineering

Indexed keywords

ANHYDRITE DISSOLUTION; BEFORE AND AFTER; CAPTURE ZONES; EQUILIBRIUM CONDITIONS; GROUNDWATER FLOW SYSTEMS; GROUNDWATER MODELING; GYPSUM PRECIPITATION; HYDROGEOLOGICAL SETTINGS; NUMERICAL FLOW; PORE-WATER PRESSURES; PREFERENTIAL FLOWS; REGIONAL GROUNDWATER FLOW; SWELLING PROCESS; SWITZERLAND; TUNNEL ENGINEERING; TUNNEL EXCAVATION;

DISSOLUTION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GYPSUM; ROCKS; SWELLING;

GROUNDWATER;

CLAY SOIL; FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; SULFATE; SWELLING; TUNNELING;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 78651379466     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2010.10.018     Document Type: Article

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