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 The links below are organized in chronological order and in standard reference style. Click on titles to download the .zip file.
 
 
 
                                 
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                                  | 2004. 
                                    Barton and Grimstad-The Q-system following 
                                    30 years of development. Eurockm Salzburg  |   
                                  | 2004. 
                                    Barton and Infanti-Interpretation of exceptional 
                                    stress levels. Kyoto ITA Barton Infanti  |   
                                  | 2004. 
                                    Barton and Quadros-Underground pressures. 
                                    International Water Power and Dam Construction, 
                                    Jan p28-32  |   
                                  | 2004. 
                                    Barton-Fault zones and TBM. Risk in Tunnelling. 
                                    Aveiro, Portugal  |   
                                  | 2004. 
                                    Barton-High pressure pre-grouting. TTI Sept 
                                    2004 p28-30 PART I  |   
                                  | 2004. 
                                    Barton-High pressure pre-grouting. TTI Sept 
                                    2004 p28-30 PART II  |   
                                  | 2004. 
                                    Barton-Risk and risk reduction in TBM tunnelling. 
                                    Keynote, 3rd. Asian R.M.symp.Kyoto  |   
                                  | 2005. 
                                    Blindheim - A critique of Qtbm. Tunnels and 
                                    Tunnelling International.  |   
                                  | 2005. 
                                    Barton-Comments on 'a critique of Qtbm' by 
                                    BLINDHEIM  |   
                                  | 2006. 
                                    Barton-Fracture induced seismic anisotropy.Beijing 
                                    13th IWSA  |   
                                  | 2006. 
                                    Barton-TBM tunnelling in sheared and fractured 
                                    rock masses. Cartagena, Colombia  |   
                                  | 2006. 
                                    Barton, N. Integrating Q-logging with seismic 
                                    refraction, permeability, pre-grouting, tunnel 
                                    and cavern support needs, etc. Keynote, Hong 
                                    Kong.  |   
                                  | 2007. 
                                    Barton and Abrieu-City metro tunnels and stations 
                                    that should have been deeper  |   
                                  | 2007. 
                                    Barton-Anisotropy and 4D caused by two fracture 
                                    sets, four compliances and sheared apertures  |   
                                  | 2007. 
                                    Barton-Near-surface gradients of rock quality, 
                                    deformation modulus, Vp and Qp to 1 km depth. 
                                    First-Break  |   
                                  | 2007. 
                                    Barton-Rockmass characterization for excavations 
                                    in mining and civil engineering. Keynote. 
                                    RMC workshop, Vancouver  |   
                                  | 2007. 
                                    Barton-Thermal over-closure of joints and 
                                    rock masses, implications for HLW repositories, 
                                    ISRM Cong., Lisbon  |   
                                  | 2007. 
                                    Barton-Time lapse interpretation using fracture 
                                    shear phenomena. EAGE, London  |   
                                  | 2007. 
                                    Barton, N. Future directions in rock mass 
                                    characterization - cross-disciplinary. Vancouver  |   
                                  | 2008. 
                                    Barton and Bieniawski-Setting records straight  |   
                                  | 2008. 
                                    Barton-A unique metro accident in Brazil caused 
                                    by multiple factors. 2nd Brazilian Conf., 
                                    Sao Paulo  |   
                                  | 2008. 
                                    Barton-A unique Metro accident in Brazil. 
                                    Tunnels and Tunnelling International  |   
                                  | 2008. 
                                    Barton-Important aspects of reservoir and 
                                    crustal permeability and strength to several 
                                    kilometers depth.Symp. Tehran  |   
                                  | 2008. 
                                    Barton-Invited editorial., J. Rock Mech & 
                                    Tunn. Tech., India  |   
                                  | 2008.Barton 
                                    N-Seismic - combining borehole characterization. 
                                    Colombia  |   
                                  | 2008. 
                                    Barton-Shear strength of rockfill, interfaces 
                                    and rock joints, and their points of contact 
                                    in rock-dump design. Keynote. Australia  |   
                                  | 2008. 
                                    Barton-TBM tunnel construction in difficult 
                                    ground. Colombia  |   
                                  | 2008. 
                                    Barton-The main causes of the Pinheiros cavern 
                                    collapse.COBRAMSEG, Buzios  |   
                                  | 2008. 
                                    Barton-Tragic collapse of a station cavern 
                                    during construction of the São Paulo 
                                    metro  |  
                                  | 2008. Barton, N. Fracture characterization for 4D. AAPG-SPE-SEG Hedberg Res. Conf. poster 3, Casper, Wyoming  |  
                                  | 2008. Barton, N. Most productive fractures. AAPG-SPE-SEG Hedberg Res. Conf. poster 1, Casper, Wyoming  |   
                                  | 2009. 
                                    Barton-Intergrating Q-logging, seismic etc 
                                    for tunnel and cavern etc. Keynote, Hong Kong  |   
                                  | 2009. 
                                    Barton-Letter to the Editor. The Pinheiros 
                                    Disagreement  |   
                                  | 2009. 
                                    Barton-Main causes of the Pinheiros cavern 
                                    collapse. ITA congress, Budapest  |   
                                  | 2009. 
                                    Barton-Metro construction at the most unfavourable 
                                    depth. Keynote. Eurock, Croatia  |   
                                  | 2009. 
                                    Barton-TBM prognosis in hard rock with faults 
                                    using Qtbm. Keynote, Hong Kong  |   
                                  | 2010. 
                                    Barton, Gammelsæter-Application of Q-system 
                                    and Qtbm to Oslo-Ski tunnels. Nordic Rock 
                                    Mech Symp. Kongsberg  |   
                                  | 2010. 
                                    Barton-Low stress and high stress phenomena 
                                    in basalt flows. Keynote. Int, Workshop on 
                                    Volcanic Rocks, Tenerife  |   
                                  | 2010. 
                                    Barton-TBM prognoses for hard rock with weakness 
                                    zones, using open-gripper or double-shield 
                                    solutions. Keynote, Prague  |   
                                  | 2010. 
                                    Barton-TBM prognosis for open-gripper and 
                                    double-shield machines tunnelling throughhard 
                                    rock with weakness zones. Helsinki  |   
                                  | 2011. 
                                    Barton and Pandey-Numerical modelling using 
                                    degradation of c and mobilization of phi. 
                                    Int.J.Rock Mech  |   
                                  | 2011. 
                                    Barton - An engineering assessment of pre-injection 
                                    in tunnelling. Keynote, 3rd Indian Rock Mech. 
                                    Conf.  |   
                                  | 2011. 
                                    Barton - Assessing pre-injection in tunnelling. 
                                    Tunnelling Journal Dec2011, Jan 2012  |   
                                  | 2011. 
                                    Barton - From Empiricism, Through Theory, 
                                    to Problem Solving in Rock Engineering. 6th 
                                    Muller Lecture  |   
                                  | 2011. 
                                    Barton - From Empiricism, Through Theory, 
                                    to Problem Solving in Rock Engineering. Shortened 
                                    version .6th Muller Lecture  |   
                                  | 2011. 
                                    Wittke and Sommer - Designs in jointed rock. 
                                    World Tunnelling, 2011  |   
                                  | 2011. 
                                    Barton - Letter to the Editor. A measured 
                                    response. World Tunnelling. sept 2011  |   
                                  | 2011. 
                                    Barton - World Tunnelling WT interview p. 
                                    10-13  |   
                                  | 2011. 
                                    Vrkljan, Barton-Interview by Prof. Vrkljan. 
                                    Zagreb, ISRM newsletter  |   
                                  | 2012. Barton - Shear strength criteria for rock, rock joints, rockfill, interfaces and rock masses , ISModel, Beijing.  |   
                                  | 2012. 
                                    Barton - Reducing risk in long deep tunnels 
                                    by using TBM and drill and-blast in the same 
                                    project - The hybrid method. Chinese Academy 
                                    of Engineering, Wuhan, JRMGE  |  
                                  | 2012. 
                                    Barton, N. Defining NMT as part of the NATM SCL debate. TunnelTalk  |  
                                  | 2012. Barton, N. Hybrid TBM and Drill-and-Blast from the start.Tunnelling Journal  |  
                                  | 2013.Barton, N. Challenges and empirical solutions when tunnelling. Water Power, Jan 2013  |  
                                  | 2013.Barton, N. Characterization of fracture shearing for 4D interpretation of fractured reservoirs. Muscat, EAGE workshop, 5p.  |  
                                  | 2013.Barton, N. Errors in constitutive modelling of rock, rock joints and rock masses. Abstract for Eurock, Wroclow, 2013.  |  
                                  | 2013.Barton, N. Geomechanics and geophysical processes in naturally fractured reservoirs. Muscat, EAGE workshop, 5p.  |  
                                  | 2013.Barton, N. Rock engineering challenges and some solutions for hydropower projects. INDOROCK-2013, keynote, Waknaghat.  |  
                                  | 2013.Barton, N. Rock mass characterization and use of empiricism to supplement modeling. Abstract, Sinorock 3, Shanghai.  |  
                                  | 2013.Barton, N. Shear strength criteria for rock, rock joints, rockfill and rock masses - Problems and some solutions. JRMGE, 5(2013).  |  
                                  | 2013.Barton, N.  Tunnelling techniques opinions, for 25th anniversary of WORLD TUNNELLING.  |  
                                  | 2013.Barton, N. Integrated empirical methods based on Q-system.  Mexico City.  |  
                                  | 2013.Barton. TBM prognoses, open-gripper, double-shield. Bergmek. Oslo.  |  
 
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