Ringwood Sewer Tunnel Blast Vibration Measurements, Nunawading 1961

Vibration records from blasting during the construction of the Ringwood Outfall Sewer tunnel in Nunawading, Victoria, in 1961. Accelerations calculated from these records were assessed against the caution zone standards of the United States Bureau of Mines. The dataset is provided by Geoscience Australia Data.

Use Cases

• Assessing blast vibration safety compliance based on acceleration measurements.
• Studying ground vibration propagation from tunnel construction blasting.
• Analyzing historical construction methods and their environmental impact.
• Modeling vibration attenuation in specific soil or rock conditions.
• Comparing measured accelerations against established regulatory caution zones.

Strengths

• Data is tied to a specific, documented construction project (Ringwood Outfall Sewer).
• Measurements are assessed against a recognized safety standard (U.S. Bureau of Mines caution zone).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to a single event in 1961.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Measured vibrations produced by blasting during tunnel construction.

Time Range

1961

Geography

Nunawading, Victoria, Australia