Role of Soil Plasticity in Evaluating Clay Conditioning for EPB Tunnelling Soil clogging occurred at the early construction stage of Nanchang Metro Line 1, China, when an earth balance pressure (EPB) shield passed through the argillaceous siltstone with a total content of clay minerals of 40.5%. To avoid the reappearance of soil clogging at the later stage, a new scheme was proposed to determin...

Argillaceous minerals in deposits of various sedimentary formations are characterized by specific chemical-mineralogical and morphological genetic features changing different stages sedimentogenesis, diagenesis, catagenesis, metagenesis. their associations terrigenous, terrigenous carbonate, volcanic, halogenic characterized. Detail characterization is given for argillaceous early sedimentogene...