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.
Numerical Analysis of Blast-Induced Stress Waves in a Rock Mass with Anisotropic Continuum Damage Models Part 1: Equivalent Material Property Approach
SummaryThis paper uses the concept of anisotropic damage mechanics to analyze dynamic responses of a granite site under blasting loads. An anisotropic continuum damage model is suggested to model rock mass behavior under blasting loads. The effects of existing cracks and joints in the rock mass are considered by using equivalent rock material properties obtained from both field and laboratory test data. The anisotropic damage accumulations are simulated by continuous degradation of equivalent material stiffness and strength during loading process and are calculated using the exponential function with respect to the principal tensile strain in three directions. The suggested models are programmed and linked to an available computer program Autodyn3D through its user's subroutine capability. Stress wave propagation and damage zone in the rock mass induced by underground explosions are simulated. Numerical results of damaged area, peak particle velocity and acceleration attenuation as well as acceleration time histories and Fourier spectra are compared with those from independent field tests.
Parboiled rice effluent: A wastewater niche for microalgae and cyanobacteria with growth coupled to comprehensive remediation and phosphorus biofertilization
Abstract The potential of microalgae and cyanobacteria for bioremediation of wastewater by nutrient uptake combined with simultaneous biomass production is a well recognized perception of today's world. The present study illustrates the treatment of a highly polluted wastewater generated during parboiling of paddy in rice mill industries, widely operational in developing countries where rice is the staple food crop, with the help of microalgal and cyanobacterial isolates capable of growing at high rates in parboiled rice mill effluent (RME). This endeavor leads to comprehensive bioremediation of the said effluent and subsequent use of the harvested biomass as slow release phosphorus biofertilizers and the treated effluent for crop irrigation. The RME-acclimatized algal consortium demonstrated highest growth in terms of fresh weight and greatest remediation efficiency at the end of 36 days' treatment of RME, with 93.9% phosphorus and 100% ammonia-nitrogen removal, 98.7%, 91.6% and 93.5% reduction in biological oxygen demand, chemical oxygen demand and total dissolved solid, respectively, and an increment of 186 ± 0.3 mg L − 1 dissolved oxygen, bringing down the pollutants level well below the discharge limits suggested by Central Pollution Control Board, India. Additionally, microalgae in the consortium aggregated in clumps spontaneously in presence of the filaments of Phormidium sp. facilitating easy harvest. The RME-acclimatized algal consortium demonstrated highest accumulation of polyphosphate (poly-P) (0.76 ± 0.01% of dry weight) as well as highest release of phosphorus in non-sterile soil emphasizing the essential role of soil phosphorus solubilizing organisms to leach soluble phosphorus from the insoluble poly-P present in the biomass. The rice seedlings watered with treated RME also showed improved growth effect on shoot height and leaf width. The study results establish the suitability of RME as an excellent growth media for microalgae and cyanobacteria.