Tunnelling Contracts and Site Investigation

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ISBN: 9780419191407 | 0419191402
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 8/1/1995

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A wide ranging and up-to-date review of experience of tunnelling contracts, particularly those for sewerage and drainage tunnels. The review is based on the 6th edition of the ICE Conditions of Contract, but it takes note of new forms of contract which are leading towards less adversarial contractual relations.

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Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction	p. 3
Contracts	p. 15
Initial investigation phase	p. 39
Ground investigation	p. 53
Contract preparation and tender evaluation	p. 101
Tunnel construction	p. 123
Claims and records	p. 147
Post-construction phase	p. 173
References	p. 177
Bibliography	p. 191
Quality assurance	p. 195
Hazardous gases with particular reference to those that might be encountered when tunnelling in Coal Measures strata	p. 203
Application of Bayesian statistics to site investigation	p. 207
Weak rock	p. 213
Standard penetration test and cone penetration test	p. 217
Mudrocks	p. 223
Mineralogical composition of rocks	p. 229
Grout injection	p. 233
Tunnelling through contaminated ground	p. 239
Rock quality designation and other rock mass discontinuity descriptors	p. 247
Symbols used on borehole logs	p. 253
Determination of unconfined compressive strength of rock	p. 255
Rising, falling and constant head permeability tests	p. 261
Rock excavatability via 'Q'	p. 267
Well-point dewatering	p. 269
Estimation of the form of a long-term (ground loss plus consolidation) free-ground transverse (normal to the tunnel centre line) surface settlement trough	p. 273
New Austrian Tunnelling Method	p. 283
Water pollution legislation	p. 289
Analysis of pressure tunnel in rock	p. 299
Ground vibration and noise from civil engineering operations	p. 307
Sewer and water main linings	p. 347
Index	p. 349
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