When constructing a tunnel, the main challenges are geotechnical and hydrogeological. In the working process the aim in tunneling is to secure the rock mass by sealing the mass before blasting. This is done by grouting. The problem with tunneling is that there is a high leakage of groundwater when the boreholes hits fracture apertures that conduct the groundwater through the rock mass. The water flow is measured in dams continuously throughout the tunneling process. These dams are located at regular intervals along the tunnel. This master thesis has together with Golder and Trafikverket analyzed 15 selected dams. These 15 dams were selected because they had a uniform measurements of flow series for autumn 2020. But also, more important, a new grouting design was implemented in spring 2020. This study is limited to one contract from the project E4 Bypass Stockholm. The evaluated method is based on a backward calculation from grouting data to determine a theoretical fracture apertures. The theoretical fracture aperture is calculated from the rheology of grouting, pressure, and time for grouting but also the predicted fractures during the geological investigations. The hypothesis through the whole master thesis is that high leakage of groundwater correlates with larger fractures in the rock mass, and low leakage of ground water correlates with smaller fractures in the rock mass. Therefore, the leakage was categorized as high leakage and low leakage, respectively for the dams. To investigate this, the theoretical fracture apertures were determined with a calculation tool, MrGrout. This program has the capacity to handle a large amount of data. The result consists of graphical interpretations of the theoretically calculated fracture apertures from each category. The results showed that graphically there was a very small difference between the fractures for high leakage and low leakage, respectively. For the category of high leakage, it was found that 50\% of all fracture apertures were dominated by a size below 250µm. The low leakage had 50\% of the dominated fracture apertures below 200µm. To investigate whether there was a statistically significant difference between the categories the result continued with a T-test. The null hypothesis for the test was that there is no difference. The results of the test showed that we could not reject the null hypothesis and that there is no significant difference. However, the margin was too small to be able to secure the hypothesis graphically. Several assumptions were made to implement the method, which leads to uncertainties. The calculation method is made automatically, which is advantageous when analyzing a large amount of data. The disadvantage of the method is that a manual calculation would have given a more reliable result but also take longer to calculate. A manual calculation had also made the result subjective, which in turn would require several repeated attempts to make a statistically independent evaluation. The conclusion is therefore that the method should be used on other projects to be able to compare whether leakage correlates with fracture apertures in the rock mass. This study does not provide a direct basis for knowing whether we have achieved a sufficient seal. The method is in an early phase to be able to use theoretical fracture apertures in practical decisions for tunneling. / <p>Ämnesgranskare för examensarbetet:<em> Lars M. Hansen</em>, Institutionen för Geovetenskaper.</p>

Water ingress into rock tunnels is a problematic phenomenon – especially in urban areas – as a lowered groundwater table may cause harmful settlements. Furthermore, too much ingress can be an incentive for the environmental court to halt the tunnel process, in order to protect the nature as part of a national interest.Water ingress is normally lowered by injecting a water and cement mixture into boreholes in the rock mass – a process called rock grouting – thus sealing the rock fractures. Very little information and research has been on the subject of how the rock fracture orientation interact with the orientation and geometry of the grouting holes. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate whether or not it is possible and feasible to select a grout fan geometry that will have the most intersections with the rock fractures, based on fracture information gained in an early pre-investigation stage. The suitability of different grout fan geometries will be determined by analyzing the amount of fracture intersections that each geometry has in a discrete fracture network, generated based on data obtained from rock cores in the Stockholm Bypass project. The assumption is that more fracture intersections means a higher chance of sealing the rock mass. The results show that there is no clear difference in number of intersections between the analyzed grout fan geometries, indicating that focus should not be on analyzing the grout fans as whole units, but rather on the scale of individual grouting holes and fractures. This thesis also highlights the importance of monitoring according to the observational method. / Vatteninläckage i bergtunnlar är ett problem, speciellt inom tätbebyggda områden, eftersom en sänkt grundvattennivå kan orsaka sättningar i jordlagren och följaktligen skada infrastruktur. Dessutom kan ett för högt vatteninläckage vara ett incitament för miljödomstolen att stoppa tunneldrivningen i ett försök att skydda den allmänna miljön i dennas roll som ett nationalintresse.Vatteninträngning i tunnlar minskas normalt genom att injicera en blandning av vatten och mikrocement i borrhål lokaliserade i bergmassan – en process som kallas för sprickinjektering – och genom detta täta bergmassan. Idag finns mycket lite information tillgänglig om hur sprickors och injekteringshålens orienteringar interagerar med varandra.Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka huruvida det är genomförbart att i ett tidigt förundersökningsskede bestämma en skärmgeometri som kommer ha så många sprickskärningar som möjligt. Olika skärmgeometriers lämplighet bedömdes genom att analysera mängden sprickskärningar som varje geometri hade i ett diskret spricknätverk, baserat på indata från utvalda kärnborrningar från Förbifart Stockholm. Analysen utfördes under antagandet att fler sprickskärningar ger en större chans att täta berget.Resultaten visar att det inte finns en klar skillnad i antalen skärningar olika skärmgeometrier emellan, vilket indikerar att framtida fokus inte bör läggas på att analysera skärmgeometrier som enheter, utan snarare att analysen bör utföras på individuella injekteringshål och sprickor. Denna uppsats markerar också vikten av observationer under utförandet av berguttag och sprickinjektering i enlighet med observationsmetoden.