Mizunami underground research site japan walter a.
Pneumatic fracture granite.
The assembled mapped fractures in the 100 m long tunnel are complex but can be divided into three categories.
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The initial demonstration was performed in weak sedimentary rock formations and evaluated by epa under the site superfund innovative technology evaluation program.
1 joint spacings were tabulated and examined within each weathering grade tabulated classification.
This type of fracture skin is commonly referred to as case hardening or core softening dorn 1998.
Revised 17 september 2008.
Direct tensile strength and fracture toughness of rock and concrete important properties for many applications are cumbersome to measure directly.
The successful application of tht to cross hole pumping tests conducted in fractured granite at this site suggests that tht is a promising approach to delineate large scale k and s s heterogeneities fracture.
More than 3000 natural structures were recorded whose distribution pattern shows clusters where low density fracture zones less than 1 per meter alternate with zones of high fracture density more than 20 per meter.
All weathering grades were present but never in the same exposure.
Illman 1 xiaoyi liu 2 shinji takeuchi 3 tian chyi jim yeh 4 kenichi ando 5 and hiromitsu saegusa3 received 29 november 2007.
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Pneumatic fracturing pf is a technology that was also experimented in the 1980 s for environmental application at new jersey institute of technology.
Two approaches were used to evaluate the field data.
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Granite core have shown that this rock has undergone several periods of hydrothermal alteration and fracturing.
In this study granite is chosen as an example to show how the tensile strength and fracture toughness can be measured from small three point bend samples of a single size but with different notches.
Decreasing pore throat diameter of a void space increases the capillary forces which provides a longer water retention time for rate.
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2005b studied airflow in unsaturated fractured tuffs and fracture connectivity through cross hole pneumatic injection.
Hydraulic tomography in fractured granite.
Fracture characteristics were investigated in 13 exposures in five study areas in weathered granite in eastern asia.
Published 8 january 2009.
