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Rapid profiling rock mass quality underneath tunnel face for Sichuan-Xizang Railway

open access: yesUnderground Space
The Sichuan-Xizang Railway is a global challenge, surpassing other known railway projects in terms of geological and topographical complexity. This paper presents an approach for rapidly profiling rock mass quality underneath tunnel face for the ongoing ...
Siyuan Wu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Overview on Measurement-While-Drilling Technique and its Scope in Excavation Industry

open access: yes, 2015
Measurement-while-drilling (MWD) aims at collecting accurate, speedy and high resolution information from the production blast hole drills with a target of characterization of highly variable rock masses encountered in sub-surface excavations.
Rai, P.,   +3 more
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Study on Acoustic Wave Transmission Technology of Measurement-While-Drilling (MWD) Data [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 2018 3rd International Conference on Advances in Materials, Mechatronics and Civil Engineering (ICAMMCE 2018), 2018
Quanxin Li, Long Chen, Jun Gao
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Semi-supervised method for tunnel blasting quality prediction using measurement while drilling data

open access: yesJournal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
Predicting blasting quality during tunnel construction holds practical significance. In this study, a new semi-supervised learning method using convolutional variational autoencoder (CVAE) and deep neural network (DNN) is proposed for the prediction of ...
Hengxiang Jin   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Environmental Measurement-While-Drilling system for real-time field screening of contaminants [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
Sampling during environmental drilling is essential to fully characterize the spatial distribution and migration of near surface contaminants. However, the analysis of these samples is not only expensive, but can take weeks or months when sent to an off ...
Bishop, L. B.   +4 more
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Borehole Azimuth Correction Method Considering the Effect of Underground Magnetic Veins

open access: yesShiyou huagong gaodeng xuexiao xuebao
In order to improve the accuracy of magnetic azimuth measurement,it is often necessary to establish a more accurate local geomagnetic model to obtain precise magnetic declination information.Compared with global geomagnetic model, local geomagnetic model
Gui HU   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Measurement While Drilling system in Aitik mine

open access: yes, 2007
Both Measurement While Drilling (MWD) and image analysis systems are useful tools that today are in use in mining industry. The data interpretation for both systems has been proposed by different studies, but often requiring site specific calibration ...
Mozaffari, Shahram
core  

From Geology to Robotics: A Review of Next-Generation Autonomous Drilling Technologies for Critical Mineral Exploration

open access: yesGeosciences
The growing global demand for critical raw materials (CRMs) essential to renewable energy, electromobility, and digital technologies has accelerated the need for advanced exploration methods capable of operating in increasingly challenging geological ...
Nikolaos Avrantinis   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Use of Gyro-MWD Technology Offshore, A Step Change in Drilling Performance in Saudi Aramco

open access: yes, 2010
Over the past few years, Saudi Aramco has had major efficiency improvements while drilling and completing smaller diameter hole sections. Such improvements provided significant reductions in rig time, and consequently reduced the overall operational cost.
Abhijeet Sarkar   +4 more
core   +1 more source

FIELD RESULTS USING MEASUREMENT-WHILE-DRILLING DIRECTIONAL SYSTEMS IN LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA

open access: yes, 1981
One of the more extensive uses of directional drilling anywhere in the world has been in the development of the East Wilmington Oil Field in Long Beach, California.
M. Gearhart
core   +1 more source

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