Location
St. Louis, Missouri
Presentation Date
12 Mar 1991, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Abstract
Correlation of ground motion to observed tunnel damage has largely been based on estimates of ground motion rather than observations and measurements. In an effort to provide a data set that included both measured ground motions and documented tunnel response, an experiment was designed and fielded 0.5 km from a recent underground nuclear explosion (UNE) which had a body wave magnitude, mb, and a Richter local magnitude, ML, of 5.0. The data obtained in this experiment are summarized in the paper. The discussion centers on the applicability of the results of this experiment to the design of underground facilities for a proposed high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 1991 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Phillips, J. S. and Luke, B. A., "Tunnel Damage Resulting from Seismic Loading" (1991). International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. 21.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icrageesd/02icrageesd/session02/21
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Tunnel Damage Resulting from Seismic Loading
St. Louis, Missouri
Correlation of ground motion to observed tunnel damage has largely been based on estimates of ground motion rather than observations and measurements. In an effort to provide a data set that included both measured ground motions and documented tunnel response, an experiment was designed and fielded 0.5 km from a recent underground nuclear explosion (UNE) which had a body wave magnitude, mb, and a Richter local magnitude, ML, of 5.0. The data obtained in this experiment are summarized in the paper. The discussion centers on the applicability of the results of this experiment to the design of underground facilities for a proposed high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.
