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Microgravity is a technique that initially addressed the exploration of sites which does not have the many restrictive conditions of the electric exploration method. Jacques Lakshmanan (1963), with Jean-Claude Erling, was the first to introduce the micro-gravity technique in France, for many applications: study of foundations, cavity detection in the SNCF railway embankments and heavy deposit ore in underground. EDF approached him for measurements on the sites of its future dams. In the 50’s the microgravity measurement did not exist yet. With such a method, one could have detected the fluid flow under the supporting foundation of the Malpasset dam (in the Southern France) and prevented its catastrophic failure in December 1959.
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Bui, H. (2012). Density Images by Microgravity. In: Imaging the Cheops Pyramid. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 182. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2657-4_3
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