Application of Borehole Camera Technology in Fractured Rock Mass Investigation of a Submarine Tunnel

ABSTRACT Han, Z.; Wang, C.; Hu, S., and Wang, Y., 2018. Application of borehole camera technology in fractured rock mass investigation of a submarine tunnel. In: Liu, Z.L. and Mi, C. (eds.), Advances in Sustainable Port and Ocean Engineering. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 83, pp. 609–614. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. Borehole camera technology can penetrate into the inner part of the rock mass, observe the characteristics of the fracture, measure the data of the fracture geometric parameters, and a reasonable statistical method is the key to analysis of structural characteristics of fractured rock mass. Based on the observation results of digital borehole camera technology, the principle and method of calculating the fracture parameters from borehole images are described. Taking the Qingdao Jiaozhou Bay Subsea Tunnel Drilling ZK3 as an example, the structure information revealed by borehole is obtained by borehole camera. The statistical analysis of geometry parameters is stud...