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Influence exerted on the water medium by spreading gravel for supports during construction of offshore gas pipelines

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Results of investigations conducted in the Hydraulics Laboratory of the Russian University for International Friendship are cited. The purpose of these investigations was to substantiate the scales of the possible effect of consequences of construction operations on the marine medium in the area where the “Nord Stream” gas pipeline is to be constructed. A description is given for an experimental device and procedures.

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  1. Institute of Water Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    N. N. Grishin, I. I. Gritsuk & V. K. Debol’skii

  2. Russian University for International Friendship, Moscow, Russia

    N. K. Ponomarev

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Translated from Gidotekhnicheskoe Stroitel’stvo, No. 2, February 2011, pp. 39 – 44.

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Grishin, N.N., Gritsuk, I.I., Debol’skii, V.K. et al. Influence exerted on the water medium by spreading gravel for supports during construction of offshore gas pipelines. Power Technol Eng 45, 114–119 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10749-011-0233-5

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