... properties and their spatial distribution along the drillhole via automatically and continuously monitoring the full process of hydraulic rotary drilling in real time during site characterization. According to the monitored data of the drilling parameters in time, this technique can efficiently...

... method (Almeida 1993). The second stage of analysis involves the probability calculation of slope failures by combining the probability regions of strength values and the deterministic slope analysis methods. 1.1 Probabilistic site characterization The sequential Gaussian co-simulation method generates...

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... ABSTRACT ABSTRACT: The site characterization of Yucca Mountain, candidate site for a repository for high-level radioactive waste, will include an experimental program in rock mechanics that presents a challenge beyond common experience. To obtain the necessary levels of confidence in results...

... ABSTRACT ABSTRACT The next phase of the Nevada Nuclear Waste Storage Investigations (NNWSI) Project is the characterization of Yucca Mountain, a possible site for a high-level nuclear-waste repository. Site characterization will include experimental programs in many technical fields...

...)). Performance confirmation will be initiated by DOE during site characterization and is likely to continue until permanent closure. Results from the performance confirmation program will ensure that geotechnical and other parameters used in the repository design are confirmed (see 10CFR60.141). Reservoir...

... Regulatory Commission, the DOE is required by 10 CFR part 60 to conduct a program of site characterization for the site to be described in such application. Site characterization includes an exploration and research program in the field and laboratory to determine the geologic conditions and ranges of those...

... ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION In this paper we present preliminary results of a research program in site characterization methodology. We are interested in understanding the response of discontinuous rock to mechanical, hydrologic, and thermal loadings. To carry out such a study we selected a field...

... with heavy equipment or machinery; and stress transients associated with impact and penetration. The complexity of site characterization depends on two factors not specifically related to the nature of the site itself: the stress levels generated by the dynamic event and the sophistication of the prediction...

... ABSTRACT ABSTRACT The U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Terminal Waste Disposal and Remedial Action has taken the first step in developing a nuclear waste repository by issuing its Site Characterization Report (SCR) for the Basalt Waste Isolation Project (BWIP) in November 1982...

... of repository development and the licensing process is therefore a prerequisite for any discussion of repository monitoring. Following selection of a number of sites for characterization, the DOE will present to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Site Characterization Reports (SCR's) for each site...

... geophysicists need to respond to the responsibilities, opportunities and challenges before us. A subset of problems and possible future advances is given below. Site Characterization Needs Individuals well acquainted with the special needs of underground construction recently met and ranked which rock...

... ABSTRACT 1. PURPOSE AND APPROACH 1.1 Purpose Site characterization in rock engineering projects is an evolutionary process beginning typically with air photo analysis and geologic mapping during prefeasibility studies and progressing through exploratory borings, permeability measurements...

... the porous medium. An impermeable caprock and some form of structural trap is required to contain the air. Reservoir Characterization structural geology Upstream Oil & Gas Pittsfield caprock site characterization stratigraphy criteria Air Energy Storage air storage closure aquifer...

... geomechanics Upstream Oil & Gas site characterization central tunnel fuh site characterization borehole Erbstoesser discontinuity tunnel housing energy storage magnet excavation situ stress granite outer tunnel Haimson tunnel Wisconsin permeability SITE CHARACTERIZATIONFOR TUNNELS...

... ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION Site characterization using oriented borehole core is the subject of this paper. Borehole core is a standard source of data for rock mechanics investigations. Oriented borehole core provides data whereby the geometric orientation of various geologic discontinuities...