Recovery of MILL RACE Ground Motion Canisters and Examination of Canister Emplacement.

Abstract

The canisters used for the strain-path project of the MILL RACE program were excavated, along with their emplacement grout, to find out why the grout had often risen to higher levels than those expected from borehole and canister geometry, and because some large variations in ground motion measurements from adjacent canisters could have been due to faulty canister installation. In most cases it was found that the canisters were embedded only partly in grout, and, in 11 of the 24 holes, half or more of the canister's surface proved to be grout-free; dirt had fallen from the sidewalls to the bottoms of boreholes before or during grouting. However, no significant correlation was found at Applied Theory, Inc. between the degree of grouting and anomalies in ground-motion records.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 31, 1983
Accession Number
ADA172489

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  • Coye T. Vincent
  • John C. Cheeseborough

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Communities of Interest

  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Army
  • Boreholes
  • Canisters
  • Couplings
  • Drilling
  • Drills
  • Emplacement
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Explosives
  • Geometry
  • Governments
  • Grouting
  • Instrumentation
  • Materials
  • Measurement

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  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Geotechnical Engineering.