Ringwood Outfall Sewer Construction Vibration Tests, Nunawading 1961

1961 vibration data from blasting during the Ringwood Outfall Sewer tunnel construction in Nunawading, Victoria. Accelerations calculated from vibration records were measured and compared to safety standards. The dataset is provided by Geoscience Australia Data.

Use Cases

• Assess construction safety compliance based on measured vibration accelerations.
• Model ground vibration propagation from historical tunnel blasting.
• Benchmark modern vibration monitoring against 1961 safety standards.
• Analyze the relationship between blasting intensity and recorded accelerations.

Strengths

• Data is tied to a specific historical construction project (Ringwood Outfall Sewer, 1961).
• Vibration measurements are compared to a recognized safety standard (United States 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.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Vibrations were measured from blasting during tunnel construction.

Time Range

1961

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 03:13:30.368366; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Nunawading, Victoria, Australia