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WATER PACKING [2 records]

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Record 1 2018-11-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Demolition (Military)
  • Bombs and Grenades
  • Land Mines
CONT

If the water packing around the charge was incomplete and the round did acquire some velocity relative to the water around the munition case, the drag forces will be 800 times higher than if it were moving through air.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Destruction (Militaire)
  • Bombes et grenades
  • Mines terrestres
CONT

Les casemates ont ensuite été brisées à l'explosif ou, pour les plus sensibles, édifiées dans les agglomérations ou au voisinage des ponts, disloquées par bourrage à l'eau.

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Underground Mining
  • Mining Wastes
DEF

Washing waste material, such as mill tailings and ground waste rock, into stopes with water in order to prevent failure of rock walls and subsidence.

DEF

The filling of the waste in mines by waterborne material by pipeline.

CONT

Development for cut-and-fill mining in a trackless environment includes a footwall haulage drive along the orebody at the main level, undercut of the stope provided with drains for the hydraulic backfill, a spiral ramp excavated in the footwall with access turnouts to the stopes and a raise from the stope to the level above for ventilation and fill transport.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Exploitation minière souterraine
  • Déchets miniers
DEF

[...] remblayage dans lequel le remblai est entraîné par l'eau dans la tuyauterie depuis la remblayeuse installée généralement au jour.

CONT

Selon les minéraux utilisés et le mode de mise en place, on distingue le remblayage manuel [...], le remblayage mécanique [...], le remblayage pneumatique [...], le remblayage hydraulique (sable calibré, amené depuis la surface et mis en place par l'intermédiaire d'une canalisation, dans laquelle il est véhiculé en suspension dans l'eau).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Explotación minera subterránea
  • Escombros mineros
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