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15th Australasian Tunnelling Conference 2014

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15th Australasian Tunnelling Conference 2014

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An Alternative Approach for Assessing In Situ Stresses in Sydney

The role of the virgin in situ stress field in tunnelling projects is well known in the Sydney area. The effect of in situ stresses is mostly considered through the use of published relationships that describe the in situ stress conditions as a function of depth. Considering the significant scatter in the data, it is evident that by adopting such relationships, the designers are assuming an average distribution of stresses with depth that is generally a reasonable engineering approach; however, when building a geomechanical model, the tunnelling or geotechnical engineer needs to account for the interrelationship between ground conditions (rock mass quality - fracturing, strength and stiffness) and in situ stress, which may explain part of the stress data scatter. This paper presents an alternative approach for interpreting in situ stress conditions, valid for both Sydney sandstones and shales that focus on such interrelationship between in situ stress and ground conditions.CITATION:Oliveira, D A F and Parker, C J, 2014. An alternative approach for assessing in situ stresses in Sydney, in Proceedings 15th Australasian Tunnelling Conference 2014 , pp 189-194 (The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy: Melbourne).
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