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The design and construction of tunnels i.e. tunnel engineering is among the most specialized fields in geotechnical engineering and myriad issues must be addressed before a tunnel can become operational.Tunnels are important underground structures that accommodate movement of people, vehicles, water, materials etc.  In this section tunnel engineering aspects such as: tunnel design, tunnel construction, microtunneling, tunnel monitoring, tunnel rehabilitation and risk assessment are included together with other important publications related to tunnel engineering.
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THE SEISMIC BEHAVIOR OF THE TUNNEL ACROSS ACTIVE FAULT (2015)
<p>The tunnel may have to be constructed across a faulted zone as it is not always possible to avoid crossing active faults. In these situations, the tunnel must tolerate the expected fault displacements and seismic action, and allow<br />only minor damages ...
Reference: 15WCEE
ACHIEVING FAST EPB ADVANCE IN MIXED GROUND: A STUDY OF CONTRIBUTING FACTORS (2014)
<p>Earth Pressure Balance (EPB) tunneling in mixed ground conditions is a challenging prospect, as it often includes excavation in boulder fields, sections of rock, and/or sticky clay, under high water pressure or changing water pressure. Maintaining a rapid ...
Reference: North American Tunneling Conference 2014
GROUND SURFACE SETTLEMENT INDUCED BY TWIN TUNNELLING (2014)
<p>Ever increasing population of large cities, density of transportation, and need for storage capacity have led, inevitably, to an increased use of underground facilities. Tunnels in urban environment are often located at small depths underneath densely populated ...
Reference: Међународна конференција Савремена достигнућа у грађевинарству 24.-25. април 2014. Суботица, СРБИЈА
LONG DISTANCE CURVED MICROTUNNELLING RAISES THE BAR IN ONTARIO (2014)
<p>Prior to 2012, the integration of designed vertical or horizontal curves into microtunnel alignments was unheard of in Ontario. Straight and relatively short microtunnels, less than 200m long, were the local accepted industry standard. Following the ...
Reference: Tunnelling in a Resource Driven World, Vancouver TAC 2014, 26-28 Oktober 2014
MONITORING INSTRUMENTATION IN UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES (2014)
<p>This paper presents the features of sophisticated instrumentation available today for geotechnical monitoring. A wide range of sophistic have been described with their applications ted electronic and mechanical instrumentation with different instrumentation ...
Reference: Open Journal of Civil Engineering, 2014, 4, 135-146
PROBLEMS OF MECHANIZED TUNNELING IN GASSY GROUND CONDITIONS A CASE STUDY: NOUSOUD WATER TRANSMISSION TUNNEL (2014)
<p>Current advances in science, followed by development of excavation equipments technology resulted in growth of tunnelling projects for different purposes. In spite of conducting exploratory studies prior to these projects, in some cases due to of impassable ...
Reference: International Journal of Geography and Geology, 2014, 3(8): 101-113
REINFORCED EARTH STRUCTURES AT SEMMERING BASE TUNNEL - CONSTRUCTION AND MONITORING USING FIBER OPTIC STRAIN MEASUREMENTS (2014)
<p>Reinforced earth structures are extensively used at the disposal site Longsgraben of the new Semmering base tunnel. These structures were monitored during construction using the observational method according to Eurocode 7. Geodetic measurements to ...
Reference: 10th International Conference on Geosynthetics, 21 - 25 September 2014, Berlin, Germany
SIGNATURE OF TUNNELLING-INDUCED GROUND DEFORMATION IN URBAN AREAS REVEALED BY TIME SERIES ANALYSIS (2014)
<p>We present two examples of ground deformation characterization in the metropolitan area of Vancouver using advanced InSAR. The first regards the construction of the Canada Line, an LRT system connecting Vancouver&rsquo;s International Airport to the downtown ...
Reference: Vancouver TAC 2014: Tunnelling in a Resource Driven World
THE GREATEST CHALLENGES IN TBM TUNNELING: EXPERIENCES FROM THE FIELD (2014)
<p>TBM tunneling is an ever-increasing prospect for underground construction, and with each new tunnel bored there are unknown elements. When boring through the earth, even extensive Geotechnical Baseline Reports can miss fault lines, water inflows, squeezing ...
Reference: North American Tunneling Conference 2014
THE ITALIAN APPROACH FOR THE DESIGN AND THE EXCAVATION OF CONVENTIONAL TUNNELS: THE CASE OF THE “FABRIANO” TUNNEL (2014)
<p>This paper shows the results of the analysis of the data acquired during the excavation of the new &ldquo;Fabriano&rdquo; Tunnel along the railway line from Rome to Ancona in Italy. The comparison between the results of the analyses and the consolidation ...
Reference: Proceedings of the World Tunnel Congress 2014 – Tunnels for a better Life. Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil