... of methods and procedures for the preparation and control for each of the phases is important for a successful operation of each participant performing a completion of a particular phase, as well as for the project investor. Reservoir Characterization discrepancy category Bieniawski classification...

... 2004, Gurocak et al. 2008). This scattering of the data avoids any kind of cor- relation between the discontinuities sets surveyed in different sites of the same ophiolitic RMZ. 3.2 Geomechanics setting The RMR geomechanical classification (Bieniawski 1979) has been applied to the ophiolitic rock-mass...

...Rock Engineering and Rock Mechanics: Structures in and on Rock Masses Alejano, Perucho, Olalla & Jiménez (Eds) © 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, 978-1-138-00149-7 Update of 1989 Bieniawski s RMR guidelines for tunnel excavation and support M. Romana Valencia Technical University, Spain...

... Upstream Oil & Gas RME metals & mining TBM shale asturia Reservoir Characterization methane tunnel face emiliano formation oviedo Pajare tunnel emission excavation tunnel Excavability structural geology injection correlation instability Bieniawski north portal Rock...

... the level of risk using the Fonseca Methodology, the rock mass quality by Bieniawski, Hoek & Brown and Romana classifications, as well as the estimated operational stability from the analytical safety factor and simulation methods. 1. Introduction of the movement of rocky bodies in residential areas...

... systematic or random errors (e.g.,Terzaghi 1965, ISRM 1981, Priest 1993, CFCFF 1996) and the intrinsic geological variability and uncertainty (e.g., Hudson 1992, Bieniawski 1997, Mazzoccola et al. 1997, Keaton 2013, Chaminé et al. 2013, 2014). Rock mass classification schemes and geotechnical indexes...

... Bieniawski strain rate reservoir geomechanics relation Hashiba testing environment long-term stability equation Rock Mechanics for Resources, Energy and Environment Kwas´niewski & ydz ba (eds) © 2013 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00080-3 Index of time-dependency for rock and its...

... Abstract The shape effect, widely studied by researchers as Hustrulid (1973), Protodyakonov (1964), Obert and Duvall (1967) and Bieniawski (1984), has had its importance recognized in the scientific and technical community since a long time ago (Bunting apud Hustrulid, 1973; Bunting, 1911...

... 33 geotechnical boreholes with a total length of 3448.45 m. 2 A CRITICAL REVIEW ON THE RMR SYSTEM, REASONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE M-RMR SYSTEM AND ITS INPUT PARAMETERS 2.1 Rock mass rating system: RMR Rock mass rating (RMR) was developed by Bieniawski (1973, 1989) based on in-situ measurements...

...). However, it is well known that, field experiments are significantly more time consuming and costly than that of laboratory experiments. Therefore, estimation of in-situ properties from lab results is a common practice (Bieniawski, 1989). Different in-situ measurements of deformation modulus are used...

... Abstract Long-term application of Geomechanical classification (Bieniawski 1973) and Q-system (Barton et al. 1974) in Croatia has resulted in a database related predominantly to carbonate and clastic rock masses. On the basis of the classification of 461 geological situations during...

... Pereira Galera structural geology mitri deformation modulus Artificial Intelligence relation RMR Serafim estimation equation Bakhtiari Dam Site rock mass limestone determination Nicholson Bieniawski marly limestone 171 Rock Engineering in Difficult Ground Conditions Soft Rocks...

... learning Upstream Oil & Gas namroud project diversion tunnel Artificial Intelligence weaker rock zone diversion tunnel Bieniawski shotcrete structural geology Engineering mesh support measure Reservoir Characterization support system excavation rock mass condition tunnel classification...

... CHARACTERIZATION Reservoir Characterization rmr 100 mechanics rock mass dependence Upstream Oil & Gas rock mass strength Bieniawski unconfined compressive strength equation Vasarhelyi Sonmez 399 Rock Engineering in Difficult Ground Conditions Soft Rocks and Karst Vrkljan (ed) © 2010 Taylor...

... for two shapes of underground Opening and considering various other parameters like the tunnel depth, the in situ stress, the uniaxial crushing strength (UCS) of intact rock material and the Bieniawski's rock mass rating (RMR). The results of the study Covering induced boundary stresses, minimum safety...

... metals & mining stability analysis rock fall analysis investigation classification RMR stability Rock mass Rating category mechanical property Bieniawski rock mass classification rock mass Artificial Intelligence strength factor discontinuity safety factor multistage...

... Characterization and Tunnel Design. lnt. J Hock Mech. Mill. Sci. 39 (2): 185-216. Bieniawski, Z.T. 1979. The Geomechanics Classification in Rock EngineeringApplications, Proc. 41h Congr. 1111.Soc . Hock. Mech., Montreux 1979. GEO-Slope Int. Ltd. 1998. User's Guide SigmalW for Finite Elernent/Dcformat ion Ana lysis...

... This paper presents data analysis on engineering geological mapping and rock mass classification of the São Bento Gold Mine, Brazil, using Q and RMR systems (Barton et al.,1974 and Bieniawski, 1974). Although mapping development encompassed all sublevels of mining levels 21, 22 and 23, data...

..., and in the geological-geotechnical study of the rock mass, the Bieniawski pro mechanical classification was used with the necessary modifications, due to the peculiar properties of the basaltic rock mass. The tunnel was inaugurated and started functioning in November 1997. 1. LOCALIZATION AND MAIN CHARACTERISTICS...

... tests, the current practice is to estimate it according several empirical formulations based in geomechanical classifications. After Bieniawski's (1978) first proposal, Serafim & Pereira and Barton (using data from Rocha, 1964) gave more specific formulations in a Lisbon Symposium (1983). Afterwards...