Preliminary geological investigations have been conducted to find suitable construction site and to assess engineering geological characteristics before detailed in situ investigation for large scale construction activities such as highway, railroad, subway or underground cavern constructions. The geological stability is a very important and critical factor for safe maintenance of structures an...

a 46- year–old man with pulmonary tuberculosis which had treated with ant tuberculosis drugs was referred to medical mycology laboratory, school of public health and institute of public health research for coughing and bloody sputum. chest x-ray revealed a cavern with a moveable mass in right apical lobe. direct examination of sputum showed wide septated dichotomous hyphae and aspergillus fumig...

This paper proposes a non-intrusive stochastic analysis procedure for reliability analysis of the serviceability performance of an underground cavern with an implicit limit state function. This procedure is formulated on the basis of the stochastic response surface method (SRSM) and the deterministic finite element method. First, the SRSM is briefly introduced and implemented through a MATLAB c...

Abstract. Suitable host rocks for a repository high-level radioactive waste (HLW) in Germany include not only clay and crystalline but also rock salt formations so-called flat steep bedding (StandAG, 2017). Favourable relevant properties of are, e.g. the high heat conductivity, low porosity permeability, its viscoplastic deformation behaviour. Thicker deposits can be attributed to formation app...