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Geological hazard

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Geology Basics for Engineers

Geology – Basics for Engineers (second edition) presents the physical and chemical characteristics of the Earth, the nature and the properties of rocks and unconsolidated deposits/sediments, the action of water, how the Earth is transformed by various phen ...

CRC Press2018

The Role of Geological Barriers in Achieving Robust Well Integrity

Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion

Wells play a key role in the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. They are not only a critical element in ensuring the permanent trapping of carbon dioxide (CO2) in deep subsurface permeable formations, but they are also being recognized as an important ...

2017

Urban Underground Potential in Dakar, Senegal

Michael Robert Doyle

This article presents a mapping method that seeks to provide urban planning with a general overview of the underground resources of an urban area. Resource potentials (for buildable space, groundwater or geomaterial extraction and geothermal energy) tend t ...

2017

Multiple resources and their sustainable development in Urban Underground Space

Aurèle Parriaux, Chao Liu, Huanqing Li

Traffic congestion and ground space scarcity are increasing the need to find more space in the urban underground. The demand-driven "top-down" planning of Urban Underground Space (UUS) is common worldwide. As natural resource, the endowments of UUS are dif ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

Full-wavefield modeling and reverse time migration of laser ultrasound data: A feasibility study

Thomas Emmanuel Blum

Laser ultrasound (LU) data acquired on cylindrical core samples effectively probe the physical properties of geologic materials. Although most LU analyses focus on estimating and inverting traveltimes of direct arrivals, it is important to recognize that L ...

2015

Turnover and accumulation of genetic diversity across large time-scale cycles of isolation and connection of populations

Séverine Vuilleumier Varisco

Major climatic and geological events but also population history (secondary contacts) have generated cycles of population isolation and connection of long and short periods. Recent empirical and theoretical studies suggest that fast evolutionary processes ...

2014

Rock mass assessment and corresponding TBM operation optimization for TBM tunneling at depth - a case study of Jinping II hydropower station

Jian Zhao, Lijun Yin

During TBM tunneling at the great depth, problems such as high in situ stress, groundwater inflow and fractured rock masses are main reasons of the geotechnical risk occurrence in TBM tunneling. Thus it is necessary to modify TBM and optimize TBM operation ...

Crc Press-Taylor & Francis Group2013

Towards the Layered City: Redefining the Role of Underground Resources in Future Urbanization

Michael Robert Doyle

For the past century, the urban underground has been developed piecemeal rather than as the object of a long-term planning effort. There is a growing awareness by urban planners and engineers that the underground contains not only potential usable space, b ...

2013

Comparison of different rock fall hazard mapping methods: challenges in harmonising current procedures

Vincent Labiouse, Jacopo Maria Abbruzzese

Rock falls represent a serious threat to communities living in mountainous areas in several European countries, and their potential hazard must be taken into account for an appropriate land-use planning and for establishing risk reduction measures. Europea ...

2011

Methods for predicting rockfall trajectories and runout zones

Vincent Labiouse

Rockfall hazard assessment without the use of rockfall trajectory and runout zone models is unthinkable in the 21st century. Such rockfall models have existed since the sixties, but nowadays an almost confusing palette of rockfall trajectory and runout zon ...

John Wiley & Sons, ISTE ltd2011

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