Role of brittle fracture in swelling behaviour: evidence from tunnelling case histories / Sprödbruch in wenig festem Fels als Auslöser von Quellvorgängen: Erkenntnisse aus Fallstudien
Author(s): |
Walter Steiner
Peter K. Kaiser Georg Spaun |
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Medium: | journal article |
Language(s): | English, German |
Published in: | Geomechanics and Tunnelling, 2011, n. 2, v. 4 |
Page(s): | 141-156 |
DOI: | 10.1002/geot.201100005 |
Abstract: |
The evaluation of several case histories of tunnels in swelling rock with sulfate bearing minerals shows that brittle fracture plays an important role in the development of swelling processes. Brittle failure by spalling has been directly observed in several tunnels, as early as the 19th century and more recently. Numerical analyses applied to different case histories with observed heave and development of strong swelling pressure, considering different construction processes; agree with the observed swelling zones. The effect of construction procedures on swelling in particular the development of pressures and swelling zones becomes evident from these analyses. For a better understanding of swelling processes brittle failure processes have to be considered in the analyses. |
Keywords: |
brittle fracture swelling pressures anhydrite gypsum swelling rock construction procedures brittle failure sulfate-bearing clay
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