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Title:
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Analysis of swelling in tunnels excavated in sulphate claystones
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Author:
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Berdugo de Moya, Iván Rafael; Guimarães, Leonardo do N; Alonso Pérez de Agreda, Eduardo; Gens Solé, Antonio; Romero Morales, Enrique Edgar
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Enginyeria del Terreny, Cartogràfica i Geofísica; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. MSR - Mecànica del Sòls i de les Roques |
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Abstract:
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The paper summarizes the main phenomenological aspects of swelling in tunnels excavated in sulphate claystones and formulates a series of theoretical consideration for their coupled hydro-mechanical-chemical analysis. The effects of tunnelling on rock damage, groundwater drainage and ventilation are discussed and the mechanism of long-term chemical swelling in tunnels due to gypsum crystal growth is described. A coupled hydro-mechanical-chemical analysis of the chemical swelling is presented that takes into account the dissolution of anhydrite and precipitation of gypsum under environmental conditions often occurring in tunnels, as well as
their associated hydraulic and mechanical effects. Analyses presented in the paper are based on long-term observations in an
instrumented tunnel excavated through sulphate claystones from the Tertiary Lower Ebro Basin (Cataluña, España). |
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Subject(s):
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-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria civil::Geotècnia::Túnels i excavacions
-Swelling soils
-Tunnels
-Ebro River Valley (Spain)
-Claystone
-Anhydrite
-Gypsum
-Coupled hydro-mechanical-chemical analysis
-Túnels -- Geotècnia
-Ebre (Riu) |
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Article - Published version
Conference Object |
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