Consideration of groundwater is a key element in almost every construction project. The design of deep excavations for basements or underground railway station concourses below the water table require that the water pressures are taken into account. Whilst these can be considered to be hydrostatic in soil, the decreasing permeability of rock with depth and the fact that groundwater flow is invariably along discrete fractures means that the water pressure is unlikely to be hydrostatic at depth.
Groundwater control for deep excavations can be achieved by a number of methods such as grouting, pumping or structural walls or a combination of these. For tunnelling projects grouting is extensively used, but the development of sophisticated tunnelling machines has led in many cases to the demise of compressed air as a means of groundwater control. 相似文献
The visualization of rock structure is a very useful and important technique in many aspects in geological and geotechnical
engineering such as investigating and evaluating the stability of a high rock slope. The conventional method used to visualize
rock structure is limited to plotting the orientation of individual discontinuities by using the Schmidt stereographic net.
The present paper shows a new technique to visualize the three-dimensional structure of rock masses. The fitting function
for three-dimensional rock structure was established based on data gathered from field survey. Two fitting methods by which
the discontinuous points gathered from a plane and discrete points from field survey were fitted respectively are suggested.
The technique to visualize the three-dimensional structure of rock masses includes many aspects such as projection transformation,
blanking and mutual cutting, are investigated. Based on the visualizing technique, the rock structure at the site of Xilupdu dam which is being built in Southwest of China was investigated. 相似文献