1st Edition

Environmental and Safety Concerns in Underground Construction, Volume1

Edited By Hi-Keun Lee, Hyung-Sik Yang, So-Keul Chung Copyright 1997
    560 Pages
    by CRC Press

    Including 160 technical papers, this volume focuses upon the environmental and safety aspects in the design and construction of underground rock structures.

    Volume 1: Preface; Organization; Heat, gas, water flow and contaminant transport problems in waste disposal Contaminant transport from waste depository in stochastic rock media; The influence of industrial objects being placed in underground space on rock massifs; Preliminary analysis of a conceptual radwaste repository; Numerical modeling of groundwater contamination with volatile material with multi-component flow formulation; Slurry fracture injection for the disposal of large volumes of low-toxicity wastes; Solution cavern disposal for low-level radioactive and toxic civil waste; Disposal of smelter slag into a mined-out pit: A rock stability study. Heat, gas, water flow and contaminant transport problems in caverns and tunnels; Blasting and machine excavation; Subsidence and ground control; Questions and measures for safety in the design and construction of tunnels; Questions and measures for safety in the design and construction of caverns and openings

    Biography

    Hi-Keun Lee Seoul National University, Korea. Hyung-Sik Yang Chonnam National University, Kwangju, Korea. So-Keul Chung, Korea Institute of Geology, Mining and Materials, Taejon, Korea.