Sentence examples for or backfill from inspiring English sources

Poisson's ratio of the rock mass or backfill.

Young's modulus of the rock or backfill (MPa).

The performance of this U-tube BHE depends on the thermal properties of the ground formation, as well as grout or backfill in the borehole.

Many current concepts for the engineered barriers of high-level waste repositories include a bentonite buffer or backfill which will be exposed to significantly raised temperatures for a period of decades to centuries.

Here, there are no pre-disbursals or backfilling; if donors don't finance a project, it simply doesn't happen.

"And unless we start annexing parts of Pennsylvania or New York, or backfilling the Atlantic, we are going to run out of room".

The results presented in this paper show that ash mixtures have properties that allow their use in place of traditional materials in the construction of fills or backfills.

The construction of sheet pile walls may involve either excavation of soils in front or backfilling of soils behind the wall.

The mines were either sealed or backfilled using various materials, consisting mainly of mining waste and to a lesser extent ash, garbage, slags, sludge, construction waste, industrial residues and household waste (GLA-NRW 1988).

This material was subsequently used as construction material or backfilled into quarries, principally in the South East of Glasgow.

Alternatively, tailings may be returned to the mine (in-pit storage or backfilling) or mixed with coarse mine waste (co-disposal).