Engineering and Health in Compressed Air Work: Proceedings of the International Conference, Oxford, September 1992

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ISBN: 9780419184607 | 0419184600
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/7/1994

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This book is the record of the conference held in Oxford in 1992 organised by CIRIA, and co-sponsored by the Health and Safety Executive, The British Tunnelling Society and the Medical Research Council's Hyperbaric Sciences Panel. The book consolidates international medical and engineering knowledge and experience on the use of compressed air and hyperbaric techniques, and looks to how they can be safely used in the future.

Preface
Acknowledgements
The conference sponsors
Opening address	p. 1
An engineer's perspective on legislative changes	p. 7
Bone necrosis	p. 16
Decompression illness	p. 29
Controlled caisson sinking - design and performance on Contract 4 of the Greater Cairo Wastewater Project	p. 41
The use of compressed air at Lake Lothing, Lowestoft	p. 61
Compressed air tunnelling for the Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway	p. 75
Use of compressed air for shaft sinking and tunnelling on Contracts 3, 12 and 12/5A of the Greater Cairo Wastewater Project, Egypt	p. 91
Oakwood Beach Interceptor Sewer: a compressed air tunnel case history	p. 118
A preliminary survey of quantitative risk factors for bone necrosis in British compressed-air workers	p. 139
The role of intramedullary pressure in hyperbaric osteonecrosis	p. 148
Optimum schedules for caisson decompression	p. 156
Early pathogenesis of hyperbaric osteonecrosis	p. 172
Report of seventeen cases with delayed occurrence of dysbaric osteonecrosis	p. 188
Compressed air tunnelling between Somerset Station and Newton Station, Singapore	p. 199
Estimation of compressed air losses	p. 224
Tunnelling in compressed air - necessity or option?	p. 245
Modelling compressed air losses from a tunnel in sand	p. 250
Developments in low-pressure compressed air equipment	p. 261
Medical aspects of compressed air tunnelling - the Singapore experience	p. 267
Thermal stress in compressed air work	p. 294
Oxygen decompression for tunnel workers in Brazil - the Sao Paulo Subway construction experience	p. 313
Decompression in tunnel construction using the Hydroshield process	p. 319
The effect of pressure on portable gas monitoring equipment used in tunnelling operations	p. 328
Statistical investigation of working pressure and DCS for compressed-air workers	p. 349
Analysis of decompression sickness and bubble appearance rates on a caisson project - effects of working shift pattern and post-decompression oxygen breathing	p. 360
Review of the neuropathological effects of decompression sickness in animals and man	p. 366
A descriptive approach to the decompression illnesses	p. 381
The technique of decanting in compressed air work	p. 389
Observations of decompression sickness and effects of working conditions in two caissons in Bremen	p. 408
Memory and personality of caisson workers with a history of decompression illness	p. 413
Blood changes associated with decompression and their possible clinical significance	p. 423
CEN standardisation - air locks for tunnelling work safety requirements	p. 445
Are the German regulations for compressed air work safe?	p. 450
Some medico-legal aspects of modern work in compressed air	p. 456
French regulations 1992 for hyperbaric works	p. 483
Comparison and prediction of decompression sickness rates	p. 493
Decompression options for tunnel work at more than 3 bars (gauge) pressure	p. 509
Remotely controlled caisson method and its maintenance	p. 519
Oxygen decompression in tunnelling	p. 529
Procedures for safe working at high pressures in a TBM chamber using special breathing gas mixtures	p. 539
Unmanned excavation systems in pneumatic caissons	p. 551
Application of deep-sea diving technology to pneumatic works in very deep caissons	p. 562
Discussion Session: Challenges for the Future	p. 585
Conference Chairman's closing remarks	p. 596
Appendix A: Conference glossary of engineering, diving and medical terms, abbreviations and units of pressures	p. 601
Appendix B: List of delegates	p. 634
Author Index	p. 637
Subject Index	p. 639
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Engineering and Health in Compressed Air Work: Proceedings of the International Conference, Oxford, September 1992

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