DELFT SAND CLAY & ROCK CUTTING MODEL

Sand, clay and rock have to be excavated for a variety of purposes, such as dredging, trenching, mining including deep sea mining, drilling, tunnel boring and many other applications.

Many excavations take place on dry land, but they are also frequently required in completely saturated conditions, and the methods necessary to accomplish them consequently vary widely.This book provides an overview of cutting theories.

It begins with a generic model, valid for all types of soil sand, clay and rock, and continues with the specifics of dry sand, water-saturated sand, clay, atmospheric rock and hyperbaric rock.

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