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Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 6

Applied Geology for Major Engineering Projects

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2015

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Editors:
  1. Giorgio Lollino

    1. Inst. for Geo-hydrological Protection, National Research Council (CNR), Turin, Italy

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  2. Daniele Giordan

    1. Inst. for Geo-hydrological Protection, National Research Council (CNR), Turin, Italy

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  3. Kurosch Thuro

    1. Department of Engineering Geology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

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  4. Carlos Carranza-Torres

    1. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, USA

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  5. Faquan Wu

    1. Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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  6. Paul Marinos

    1. Geotechnical Engineering Department, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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  7. Carlos Delgado

    1. Escuela Universitaria de Ingeniería Técnica de Obras Públicas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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  • One out of eight IAEG XII Congress volumes on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of IAEG

  • Includes contributions of numerous worldwide renowned scientists

  • Gives a thorough overview on applied geology for major engineering projects

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (195 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  3. Addressing Geological Uncertainties in Major Engineering Projects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
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    2. Effect of Petrogenesis on the Suitability of Some Pelitic Rocks as Construction Aggregates in the Tropics

      • Tochukwu A. S. Ugwoke, Celestine O. Okogbue
      Pages 27-30

    3. Geological Society of London Engineering Group Working Party on Periglacial and Glacial Engineering Geology

      • David Giles, Martin Culshaw, Laurance Donnelly, David Evans, Mike de Freitas, James Griffiths et al.
      Pages 31-35

    4. New Methods of Determining Rock Properties for Geothermal Reservoir Characterization

      • Mathias Nehler, Philipp Mielke, Greg Bignall, Ingo Sass
      Pages 37-40

    5. Application of Reliability Methods to Tunnel Lining Design in Weak Heterogeneous Rockmasses

      • John C. Langford, N. Vlachopoulos, M. S. Diederichs, D. J. Hutchinson
      Pages 41-45

    6. Geological and Geotechnical Difference on Both Sides of the Same Tunnel

      • Pedro Olivença, Vítor Santos
      Pages 47-51

    7. Development of Probabilistic Geotechnical Ground Models for Offshore Engineering

      • Konstantinos Symeonidis, Clark Fenton
      Pages 53-57

    8. Baixo Sabor (Portugal) Upstream Dam Foundation: From Design Geological Predictions to Construction Geological Facts and Geotechnical Solutions

      • Jorge Neves, Celso Lima, Fernando Ferreira, João Machado
      Pages 59-64

    9. The Foundations of Constructions in Dobrogea—Romania, on Water Sensitive Soils, Loess

      • Gabriela Brîndusa Cazacu, Nicolae Botu, Daniela Grigore
      Pages 65-67

    10. Influence of Micro-texture on the Geo-engineering Properties of Low Porosity Volcanic Rocks

      • Ündül Ömer, Amann Florian
      Pages 69-72

    11. Conceptual Geological Models, Its Importance in Interpreting Vadose Zone Hydrology and the Implications of Being Excluded

      • Matthys A. Dippenaar, J. Louis van Rooy
      Pages 73-78

    12. Treatment of Fossil Valley in Dam Area: A Case Study

      • A. K. Singh, Bhatnagar Sharad
      Pages 79-84

  4. Applied and Active Tectonics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85
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    2. A Case Study of Three-dimensional Determination of Stress Orientation to Crystalline Rock Samples in Wenchuan Earthquake Fault Scientific Drilling Project Hole-2

      • Weiren Lin, Lianjie Wang, Junwen Cui, Dongsheng Sun, Manabu Takahashi
      Pages 87-90

    3. Mathematical-Numerical Modeling of Tectonic Fault Zone (Tadzhikistan)

      • Ernest V. Kalinin, Olga S. Barykina, Leili L. Panasyan
      Pages 91-93
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About this book

This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes, and deals with the theme of applied geology, which is a critical theme for the global economy. In the international, multidisciplinary approach to major engineering projects (either to macro- or mega-scale), the application of geological investigation techniques is fundamental for properly selecting the location sites, planning the construction and maintaining the infrastructures. The contributions in this book include not only engineering constructions but also case studies related to large projects on geo-resources exploration and extraction (minerals, petroleum and groundwater), energy production (hydropower, geothermal, nuclear and others), transportation (railway and highway) and waste disposal as well as the environmental management of these and other activities. The Engineering Geology for Society and Territory volumes of the IAEG XII Congress held in Torino from September 15-19, 2014, analyze the dynamic role of engineering geology in our changing world and build on the four main themes of the congress: Environment, processes, issues, and approaches. The congress topics and subject areas of the 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes are: 1. Climate Change and Engineering Geology 2. Landslide Processes 3. River Basins, Reservoir Sedimentation and Water Resources 4. Marine and Coastal Processes 5. Urban Geology, Sustainable Planning and Landscape Exploitation 6. Applied Geology for Major Engineering Projects 7. Education, Professional Ethics and Public Recognition of Engineering Geology 8. Preservation of Cultural Heritage.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Inst. for Geo-hydrological Protection, National Research Council (CNR), Turin, Italy

    Giorgio Lollino, Daniele Giordan

  • Department of Engineering Geology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    Kurosch Thuro

  • Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, USA

    Carlos Carranza-Torres

  • Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Faquan Wu

  • Geotechnical Engineering Department, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Paul Marinos

  • Escuela Universitaria de Ingeniería Técnica de Obras Públicas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Carlos Delgado

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