Rock mechanics and the construction of the tunnel sealing experiment

Vail Rocks 1999 - 37th U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics (USRMS)

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 885-892

  Martino, J B ^a   Chandler, N A ^a  

^a ATOMIC ENERGY OF CANADA LIMITED   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULKHEADS (RETAINING WALLS); GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES; HIGH PERFORMANCE CONCRETE; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; ROCK MECHANICS; ROCKS; SEALING (FINISHING);

COMPACTED BENTONITE; EXCAVATION DAMAGE ZONES; FULL-SCALE TUNNELS; INSITU STRESS; SEALING TECHNOLOGY; STOP FLOW; TUNNEL SEALING EXPERIMENTS; UNDERGROUND RESEARCH LABORATORIES;

TUNNELS;

EID: 85016888487     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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