R. Gratzer, A. Bechtel, R. Sachsenhofer, H. Gawlick
{"title":"Geogenic versus Anthropogenic: Hydrocarbons in the Spoil from the Falkenstein and Spering Tunnels (A9 Pyhrn Autobahn, Austria)","authors":"R. Gratzer, A. Bechtel, R. Sachsenhofer, H. Gawlick","doi":"10.1002/GEOT.201500018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/GEOT.201500018","url":null,"abstract":"In the Falkenstein und Spering tunnels (A9 Pyhrn Autobahn; Northern Calcareous Alps), hydrocarbon contents (HC Index) in excess of the permitted threshold values were detected in the course of the routine statutory analysis of the excavated material. Comparative detailed geochemical analysis of retained reference samples, operational consumables and core samples from boreholes drilled into the tunnel wall show that threshold values of HC indices in the Reifling Limestone are exceeded due to the presence of locally generated natural hydrocarbons. The hydrocarbons were probably formed in marly zones of the carbonate rocks and migrated into the well‐developed fracture network. These hydrocarbons are characterized by high contents of n‐alkanes, high Ts/(Ts+Tm) ratios, a predominance of C27 and C29 steranes, and the lack of oleanane. Traces of hydrocarbons in the Wetterstein Limestone contain oleanane due to contamination by operating consumables.","PeriodicalId":170042,"journal":{"name":"Geomechanics and Tunnelling","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126100773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imprint: Geomechanics and Tunnelling 4/2015","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/geot.201590034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/geot.201590034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":170042,"journal":{"name":"Geomechanics and Tunnelling","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126973871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Light management below ground: lighting technology in tunnelling / Lichtmanagement unter Tage: Beleuchtungstechnik im Tunnelbau","authors":"W. Maurer","doi":"10.1002/GEOT.201500010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/GEOT.201500010","url":null,"abstract":"New lighting technologies are everywhere and LED (light emitting diode) has become a popular search term for buyers of lighting equipment. The energy saving potential is enormous and energy efficiency has become important in any company, from agricultural and industrial businesses to service providers. To encourage this development, a new law was introduced by the Austrian Ministry of Science, Research and Business in 2014 that requires businesses to determine energy saving potential and reduce energy consumption. Replacement of outdated lighting technologies does have great potential for energy saving, but light is also an essential factor in the world of work, and companies have long underestimated its influence on the performance and motivation of staff. Lighting was and still is a precondition for working underground, but how much light is needed? The following article is intended to draw attention to the importance of light below ground and indicate possible effects on performance and health.","PeriodicalId":170042,"journal":{"name":"Geomechanics and Tunnelling","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131578276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Automation of rock selection and aggregate quality for reuse in tunnelling and industry","authors":"M. Petitat, Katja von Allmen, J. Burdin","doi":"10.1002/GEOT.201500012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/GEOT.201500012","url":null,"abstract":"The tunneling industry is flourishing around the world. But what about the spoil material? This paper presents the different steps achieved towards an automation of rock selection and aggregate quality assessment for tunnelling to reduce environmental impacts and maximize the use of excavation materials by analyzing and processing TBM muck on‐line, inside the tunnel, on the tunnel boring machine.","PeriodicalId":170042,"journal":{"name":"Geomechanics and Tunnelling","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129865092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Content: Geomechanics and Tunnelling 4/2015","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/geot.201590036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/geot.201590036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":170042,"journal":{"name":"Geomechanics and Tunnelling","volume":"134 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124648743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MineralBay – the portal for raw materials and projects from subsurface construction / MineralBay – das Portal für mineralische Rohstoffe und Projekte aus dem Untertagebau","authors":"H. Erben, R. Galler, T. Grechenig","doi":"10.1002/geot.201500009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/geot.201500009","url":null,"abstract":"In order to achieve higher utilisation rates for the material excavated from underground construction sites, one of the main objectives is efficient, digital processing of available data on material, mass and time parameters for the mined rock. Selected information needs to be made available to a wide audience at the same time. This initiates a value chain, which goes far beyond the construction industry and enables successful upcycling. The evolving software MineralBay is committed to this goal by using the internet to bring together owners or suppliers of mineral resources with customers easily, quickly and at any time to facilitate the exchange and trading of raw materials. MineralBay is a management and merchandising system for excavated material, whose speciality is access to and processing of real‐time data, e.g. in the form of online material analysis results from tunnel boring machines. The information obtained is used for quality management of already placed excavation material and for gapless documentation of the material flow from the beginning to the end of the construction project.","PeriodicalId":170042,"journal":{"name":"Geomechanics and Tunnelling","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129177705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Helmut Posch, R. Otto, H. Huber, R. Murr, Matthias Kager, H. Wagner
{"title":"Recycling of tunnel excavation using the example of the Koralm Tunnel, contract KAT2 – Status April 2015 / Verwertung von Tunnelausbruch am Beispiel des Koralmtunnels, Baulos KAT2 – Stand April 2015","authors":"Helmut Posch, R. Otto, H. Huber, R. Murr, Matthias Kager, H. Wagner","doi":"10.1002/geot.201500013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/geot.201500013","url":null,"abstract":"Contract KAT2 will produce about 8.6 m. t of material excavated from the tunnel. In the course of the design work, maximum reuse of this material was intended, always considering economics and while reducing the environmental impact by minimizing transport and saving resources. More than half of the suitable tunnel spoil will be preliminarily screened and then processed for the production of aggregates for concrete production. After the first year of production, the high losses associated with the preliminary screening and processing demanded measures to improve the processing, which led to an improvement of the recycling quota. The aggregates produced on site so far fulfil the technical requirements for concrete production, even for high strength concrete grades.","PeriodicalId":170042,"journal":{"name":"Geomechanics and Tunnelling","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129210758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of resource‐efficient tunnelling technologies – Results of the European research project DRAGON","authors":"R. Galler","doi":"10.1002/geot.201500017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/geot.201500017","url":null,"abstract":"A wide range of different minerals is found in materials excavated in tunnels. The DRAGON project therefore has the aim of investigating the requirements of the industries producing products from mineral raw materials and who thus could be interested in raw materials derived from underground construction sites. In parallel to the development of advanced online technologies for the analysis of excavated materials, DRAGON is researching the significant requirements for raw materials used in industrial processes; these include grain size distribution, mineralogical composition, geochemistry as well as water content and water absorption properties.","PeriodicalId":170042,"journal":{"name":"Geomechanics and Tunnelling","volume":"264 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121350098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}