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Showing: 1 to 10 of 44 matches for "UCS and Gneiss"  Page   1   2   3   4   5 TITLE New Tunneling Innovations Revolve Around More Efficient Disc Cutters  SUMMARY ... 14.6-km-(9.1-mile-) long Cobb County water transfer tunnel in Atlanta, GA was located in highly abrasive mica schist and gneiss up to 228 MPa (33,000 psi) UCS. ... AUTHOR Willis, Desiree PUBLISHED 2007 TITLE Successful Tunneling for Water Tunnel No. 3, New York City, New York  SUMMARY ... and granitic rock with lesser amounts of schistose gneiss, pegmatite and ... Average test results for Unconfined Compression Strength (UCS), Point Load Index (PLI ... AUTHOR Kwiatkowski, Thomas P. ; Bhore, Joginder S. ; Velez, Jose ; Orlandi, Christopher D. PUBLISHED 2007 TITLE Deep Hole Raise Boring At Falconbridge Operations, Sudbury Ontario  SUMMARY ... in this rock in the Sudbury area. Felsic/dark norite is less abrasive than felsic gneiss with an average UCS of 180 MPa. Norite ... AUTHOR Pugsley, Thomas F. ; Gallagher, James ; Davies, Wilf J. PUBLISHED 1989 TITLE Influence of Rock Mass Properties on Performance of Hard Rock TBMs  SUMMARY ... dike intrusions with Granitic Gneiss as one of the most common lithologies on ... the tunnel and tested for Uniaxial Compressive Strength (UCS), Brazilian Tensile ... AUTHOR Ramezanzadeh, Ahmad ; Rostami, Jamal ; Kastner, Richard PUBLISHED 2005 TITLE Impact of Rock Mass Characteristics on Hard Rock Tunnel Boring Machine Performance  SUMMARY ... and felsic rock types with dyke intrusions and granitic gneiss as one ... tunnel were sampled and tested for uniaxial compressive strength (UCS), Brazilian tensile ... AUTHOR J Rostami ; D Tadic PUBLISHED 2008 TITLE Rock Mass Mechanical Behavior Assessment at the Porce III Underground Powerhouse Complex, Colombia  SUMMARY ... indirect tensile strength (ITS), uniaxial compressive strength (UCS), and triaxial ... incipient/irregular foliated anisotropic and banded gneiss, composed by grey ... AUTHOR Suarez-Burgoa, Ludger PUBLISHED 2008 TITLE The ICUTROC Project ù Roadheaders for Hard Rock Applications and Influences on Their Cutting Performance  SUMMARY ... Objectives The following scope of main objectives was identified: • extending the cuttable rock strength (UCS) to a value of 120 - 180 MPa, depending on ... AUTHOR M Fuchs PUBLISHED 2002 TITLE Rock Mass Characterization for the WSSC Bi-County Water Tunnel  SUMMARY ... the project alignment are highly variable from a lithologic standpoint (eg gneiss vs schist ... 1. UCS of intact rock (UCS or PLI); 2. Rock Quality Designation (RQD ... AUTHOR Headland, Paul PUBLISHED 2008 TITLE The Influence Of Water Content On Strength Characteristic Of Sandstone Subject To Triaxial Test  SUMMARY ... phenomenon was also found by Feda (1966) for schist and gneiss rock specimens. ... It can therefore be said that water content would reduce the UCS and UTS of rock ... AUTHOR Kramadibrata, S. PUBLISHED 2000 TITLE Application of modified Hoek-Brown transition relationships for assessing strength and post yield behaviour at both ends of the rock competence scale - Synopsis  SUMMARY ... Two sections of this breakout have been chosen for analysis here: a section in a more competent gneiss unit with UCS = 160 MPa, (m i = 28) and GSI ... AUTHOR Carter, T. G. PUBLISHED 2008 Showing: 1 to 10 of 44 matches for "UCS and Gneiss"  Page   1   2   3   4   5 Search Again