Quarterly geotechnical field data report

Technical Report · Sun Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1985

OSTI ID:6355200

The purpose of the Quarterly Geotechnical Field Data Reports is to meet the US Department of Energy intent to provide geotechnical and related information from WIPP underground activities to interested persons or groups in a timely manner. This Quarterly Geotechnical Field Data Report (GFDR) presents information obtained from the geotechnical studies at the WIPP site underground facilities from April 1 through June 30, 1985, as well as all previous data collected from the geomechanical instruments. During this period, the geotechnical activities at the site included maintaining and repairing instruments and monitoring previously installed geomechanical instruments in shafts, underground drifts, and test rooms. The data presented in this GFDR reflect the update of continuing measurements and monitoring. Also continuing and included in this report are preliminary geotechnical and structural analyses and interpretations of the data. The GFDR is organized into two principal parts. The first part, Geotechnical Field Data, presents in graphical form all the data collected since April 1982 from the geomechanical instruments. Presented in the second part, Evaluation and Analyses, are preliminary interpretations and analyses of the data. In this report a reanalysis of the test room convergence data is presented, as well as continuing geotechnical assessments of all the facility features. The computational analyses section presents the analysis of a future storage room, and the refined results, based on in situ data, from analyses for the test rooms. Also included in the second part are separate sections on evaluation and interpretation of the instrumentation measurements, and an updated description and evaluation of observed behavior of the underground openings.

• Research Organization: Bechtel National, Inc., San Francisco, CA (USA). Advanced Technology Div.
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-78AL05346
• OSTI ID: 6355200
• Report Number(s): WIPP-DOE-218; ON: DE86003354
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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