The effect on residential life for the tunnel construction
With the appearance of tunnels in the city or downtown, residential life and building is influenced inevitably by drilling and blasting construction at the entrance of tunnel. In order to reduce the effect, the monitoring of effect on resident, such as dust and noise was conducted during the construction of the entrance of tunnel. The monitoring result shows: (1) Dust content is 20 mg/m3 at the entrance of tunnel for blasting. It is 60 mg/m3 during the construction of wet pneumatically placed concrete. It is higher than the standard of health, 5.3 mg/m3. (2) Noise is 85 decibels when ventilation and noise is 200 decibels during the construction of drilling that is more than the standard, 60 decibels. It provides the reference for similar engineering.(3)The surface settlement induced by drilling and blasting in tunnels affects residential life.
Analytical simulation of the dynamic compressive strength of a granite using the sliding crack model
A sliding crack model is employed to simulate rock strength under dynamic compression. It is assumed that the growth and nucleation of a sliding crack array presented results in the shear fault failure and dominate the mechanical properties of rock material. The pseudo‐tractions method is used to calculate the stress intensity factor of the sliding crack array under compression. With the utilization of a dynamic crack growth criterion, the growth of the sliding crack array is studied and the simulated strengths of a granite under dynamic compression are correspondingly obtained. It is concluded that the simulated rock strengths increase with increasing strain rates at different confining pressures, and the rising rates have a trend to decrease with increasing confining pressures. It is also indicated that the simulated rock strengths increase with increment of confining pressure at different strain rates, and the rising rates are almost identical at different strain rates. The simulation results are validated by the experimental data for the granite. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Engineering characterization of ground motion. Task II. Summary report. Volume 5
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