Hard Rock Hydraulics: An Introduction to Modeling
Hard Rock Hydraulics: An Introduction to Modeling
by Fernando Olavo Franciss
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0367376202 | 299 Pages | PDF | 37 MB
by Fernando Olavo Franciss
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0367376202 | 299 Pages | PDF | 37 MB
Hard rock hydraulics concerns arrangements of adjoining intact rock blocks, occurring down to a depth of hundreds of meters, where groundwater percolates within the gaps between these blocks. During the last decades, technical papers related to successful or failed attempts for mining groundwater from hard rocks, and achievements or failures of public or mining developments with respect to these rocks, increased the knowledge of their hydraulics. Examples of activities where the mechanical behavior of these rocks highly interacts with their hydraulics are projects under the sea or groundwater level, such as open pits or underground mines, galleries, tunnels, shafts, underground hydropower plants, oil and LPG storage caverns, and deep disposal of hazardous waste.