Foreword
1 Introduction
1.1 The Horizontal project and the Work Package 7
1.2 Desk study subject
1.3 Evaluation of needs for control of operations and material
characteristics
1.3.1 Evaluation of needs for control of operation
1.3.2 Material characteristics
1.4 Search for existing standards and methods
1.5 Basic information
1.5.1 Flowability
1.5.2 Solidity
1.5.3 Thixotropic behaviour of solid materials
1.5.4 Piling behaviour
2 Existing standards or draft standards
2.1 Flowability
2.2 Solidity
2.3 Thixotropic behaviour
2.4 Piling behaviour
3 Evaluation of drafting a Horizontal standard
3.1 Flowability
3.1.1 Capillary viscometers
3.1.2 Penetrometer
3.1.3 Rotational viscometers
3.1.4 "Flow" apparatus
3.2 Solidity
3.2.1 Shearing apparatus
3.2.2 Vane testing apparatus
3.2.3 Penetrometer
3.3 Thixotropic behaviour of solid materials
3.3.1 Laboratory or field test feasibility
3.3.2 Apparatus
3.3.3 What is measured and how
3.3.4 Material to be examined
3.3.5 Feasibility of the methods to the materials of
investigation
3.4 Piling behaviour
3.4.1 Laboratory or field test feasibility
3.4.2 Apparatus
3.4.3 What is measured and how
3.4.4 Material to be examined
3.4.5 Feasibility of the methods to the materials of
investigation
4 Critical point and recommendations
4.1 Flowability
4.1.1 Comparison (discussion: pro/contra)
4.1.2 Recommendation
4.2 Solidity
4.2.1 Comparison (discussion: pro/contra)
4.2.2 Recommendation
4.3 Thixotropic behaviour of solid materials
4.3.1 Comparison (discussion: pro/contra)
4.3.2 Recommendation
4.4 Piling behaviour
4.4.1 Comparison (discussion: pro/contra)
4.4.2 Recommendation
4.5 Summary of recommended methods
4.5.1 Flowability
4.5.2 Solidity, thixotropic behaviour and piling behaviour
4.6 Research needs
4.6.1 Basics of methods
4.6.2 Applicability of methods to the materials of
investigation
4.6.3 Questions to be answered
4.6.4 Route, how to answer them
4.6.5 Steps to be taken
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