Sentence examples for rock environments from inspiring English sources

The NATM is, however, not appropriate for all rock environments because it is based on bolt-shotcrete support and rock mechanics [6].

Worms World Party features six level themes inspired by the best of the Worms series featuring the hot lava fields of hell, the freezing ice caverns, an arid desert, pirate islands, alien space worlds and tribal rock environments.

Spain's uncynical rock environment is allowing a ragged garage rock scene to thrive around Hinds and the Parrots.

This analysis utilizes an underground lignite mine which is being developed in soft rock environment.

Rate of penetration of a Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) in a rock environment is generally a key parameter for the successful accomplishment of a tunneling project.

In this paper the BTES design and results of the rock environment response to the BTES charging and resting phase are briefly presented.

The data acquired from the BTES operation was then used to set up and calibrate a heat transport model in the rock environment by means of the FEFLOW code.

The design concept employs a multibarrier system, including the use of copper-coated used fuel containers, surrounded by a low-permeability, swelling clay buffer material within a low permeability, stable host rock environment.

Cutterhead is the core component of TBM tunneling equipment, which endures strong, multi-point distributed impact loads when the TBM tunnels, owing to the extreme surrounding rock environment of high hardness, high temperature and high quartz content.

These fracture zones in hard rock environment play an essential and critical role in fluid flow within the subsurface, such as the movement and accumulation of groundwater as well as transport of contaminants (Karous and Mares 1988).

Using transmissivity as a determinant factor of borehole performance, all the boreholes in Table 1 are below high potential aquifers, because Offodile (2002) advocated a transmissivity value between 5 and 50 m2/day to achieve high potential of groundwater in a basement crystalline rock environment.