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The paper presents the results of standard plastic limit test and fall cone test also used to determine plastic limit. Tests were performed on three clay soils. Soils differed from each other various percentage of the sand fraction. Plastic limit is standardly determined by hand rolling soil specimen. A sample of soil has moisture on plastic limit when the roller of the soil of 3 mm diameter begins to break up (CSN EN ISO/TS 17892-12). The test results are highly dependent on access laboratory technicians which pr...

The article deals with the problem of determination of zones induced by excavation of underground work in solid granitoid rocks using numerical modelling under the assumption of Hoek-Brown's failure condition and DiederichsпїЅs conceptual model of behaviour of the rock environment around the underground work. Three fundamental induced zones around the underground work are characterized - the High Damage Zone (HDZ), the Excavation Damage Zone (EDZ) and the Excavation Influence Zone (EIZ) and the possibilities of th...