... & construction stage. From a town planning point of view, an obvious obligation is to check the desirability of having an underground installa- tion at the proposed site. Perhaps a different location might leave better space fOr future installations or it might offer better prospects for long-term stability...

... space coal ash stability structural geology shale Waste Disposal Madhya Pradesh clastic rock cavity waste material Coal Mining land subsidence factory India metals & mining drainage sandstone pollution industrial waste Korba SUBSURFACE SPACE FOR WASTE DISPOSAL AROUND KORBA...

... with particular care the problems of cavity stability and well tightness. Brine reinjection into a cavity has confirmed the predictions and legitimized the approach adopted. RESUME La tres grande rnobilite du gaz naturel (faibles viscosite et masse volumique) ainsi que "existence de variations de pression tres...

... excavated in Precambrian rock. Recent results of a geotechnical test program are described and the corresponding in-situ and laboratory measurements are considered in assessing design of rock cavern support systems, cavern liner requirements, and rock cavern stability under both thermal and seismic loads...

...STABILITY OF DIFFERENT ROOM LAYOUTS IN ROCK SALT H. D. S. Miller and R. K. Dunham Department of Mining Engineering, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; UK ABSTRAcr This paper reports the result of closure measurements in roadways driven in salt at a depth of llOOm. The results obtained from...

... studied by an interdisciplinary group at the University of Wisconsin, including fundamental research aimed at designing safe and economic undergound rock caverns to house the magnets. Evalu- ation of cavern stability for alternative magnet designs and proposed rock sites in Wiscon- sin for a prototype...

... reservoir geomechanics strength stability Artificial Intelligence criterion application geological condition post peak rock behaviour application Reservoir Characterization Upstream Oil & Gas characteristic soft rock storage facility underground storage plastic strain...

... were used in an assessment of the stability of large reactor caverns for housing the nuclear components of a proposed 4 x 850 MNe underground nuclear power plant in Precambrian hard rock. It was found that under ambient temperature conditions the state of stress alone did not critically affect cavern...

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... Compressed air energy storage in salt caverns induces low-frequency cyclic loading effects in rock salt. An ongoing study is described which will furnish data for assessing associated stability of storage caverns. Some initial findings are presented from laboratory and in-situ mine tests...