GEO PHYSI CAL SUR VEY ( GPR ) IN WEST SAQQARA ( EGYPT ) : PRE LIMI NARY RE MARKS
Ab stract Geo phys i cal in ves ti ga tions in West Saqqara area were part of the ar chae o log i cal field work of the Pol ish-Egyp tian ar chae o log i cal mis sion dur ing the cam paign in 2012. The main pur pose of geo phys i cal prospection us ing the groundpen e trat ing ra dar (GPR) was to de ter mine the lo ca tion of po ten tial un der ground se pul chral struc tures. Dur ing the GPR sur vey, op ti mal depth pen e tra tion was achieved due to dry rocks and mono lithic struc ture of the lime stone pla teau on which the an cient cem e tery was lo cated. Us ing an tenna of 100 MHz, the depth of pen e tra tion was up to 45 m and with an tenna of 250 MHz, up to 15 me ters. Three main groups of ar chae o log i cal struc tures were iden ti fied: sar coph agi and mum mies, burial shafts; mo bile ob jects (solid rock blocks as frag ments of tombs). One of the main goal of the GPR sur vey was to track the route of the west ern part of the Dry Moat, ex pressed by a wide and shal low de pres sion spread ing to wards north-south. The re sults of geo phys i cal in ves ti ga tions sug gest that Saqqara pla teau is an ideal site for us ing GPR sur vey ing tech nol ogy.
AP PLI CA TION OF ELEC TRI CAL RE SIS TIV ITY IM AG ING AND LAND SUR VEY ING IN THE ANAL Y SIS OF UN DER GROUND CON STRUC TION IM PACT ON THE WAR SAW SCARP
The pa per pres ents the anal y sis of the II Un der ground Line con struc tion’s im pact on the War saw Scarp with the use of the elec tri cal re sis tiv ity im ag ing (ERI, also known as the elec tri cal re sis tiv ity to mog ra phy) and fur ther to tal sta tion po si tion mea sure ments. The un der ground passes un der the scarp per pen dic u lar in the area of Dynasy Street 6, in Down town dis trict. The elec tri cal re sis tiv ity im ag ing was per formed for rec og ni tion of the geo log i cal struc ture and a poten-tial land slide sur face or zone. The gra di ent sys tem was used dur ing the prospection. In these anal y ses, the lon gi tu di nal sec tion was 40 m long, and the depth of sur vey amounted to 6 m. In the case of the 200 m long trans verse sec tion, the re sulted depth of sur vey was 30 m. The geo phys i cal im age of the lon gi tu di nal sec tion, does not con tain loos en ing soil zones, which could in di cate slip sur face. Next, to tal sta tion mea sure ments, which were tied to the ar chi val geo detic ob ser va tions’ re sults, were car ried out. The aim of the mea sure ments was to ver ify the ac tiv ity of the hor i zon tal and ver ti cal dis place ments. The TBM ex ca va tion pro cess led to sum mary ver ti cal dis place ments up to approx. 24 mm and hor i zon tal dis place ments amount ing to approx. 13 mm. To sum up, the cur rent land sur veys re veals mi nor un der ground line’s con struc tion im pact on the scarp dis place ment. Nev er the less, the sen si tive ur ban en vi ron ment re quires fur ther mon i tor ing, es pe cially that the op er a tion loads can re sult in dis place ment rate change.
A model for predicting heat transfer through gypsum‐board/wood‐stud walls exposed to fire
To facilitate the development of cost-effective and flexible design options there is a need to develop models to predict the fire resistance of wood-frame building assemblies. Such assemblies often derive much of their fire resistance from a protective membrane composed of gypsum board. A simple two-dimensional computer model is presented to predict heat transfer through gypsum-board/wood-stud walls exposed to fire. Input data for the thermophysical properties of gypsum board were measured exploying standard bench-scale tests. Input data for wood were selected from the literature. Small-and full-scale fire resistance tests were conducted on gypsum-board/wood-stud wall assemblies to provide data for the validation of the model. The model is shown to predict heat transfer through these walls rather well.