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Publications tagged with [TBM tunneling]
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<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 ...
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Tunnel Engineering -
Mechanized Tunneling
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North American Tunneling Conference 2014
Bezuijen A.
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Nagel F.
et al.
<p>The flow of bentonite and grout around a TBM influences the settlement trough that is created during TBM tunneling. Not taking into account this flow, leads to a calculated settlement trough that is too deep. Two calculation methods have been developed: ...
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Tunnel Engineering -
Mechanized Tunneling
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Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground – Viggiani (ed), © 2012 Taylor & Francis Group, London, pages 173-179
Zarei H. R.
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Sharifzadeh B.
et al.
<p>Natural gases are a potential hazard in construction of underground excavations. Encountering with gases usually result in costly delays. Gases occur in a wide variety of geological conditions, so predict the occurrence of potentially hazardous concentrations ...
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Tunnel Engineering -
Mechanized Tunneling
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First Asian and 9th Iranian Tunnelling Symposium November 2011 Tehran - Iran
Wong K. K. W.
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Ng N. W. H.
et al.
<p>The Kowloon Southern Link (KSL) is a 3.8 km underground railway project in a busy urban area with complex geological and alignment constraints.A key challenge for the project is to construct a critical section of the tunnels above the existing MTR tunnels ...
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Tunnel Engineering -
Mechanized Tunneling
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Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground – Ng, Huang & Liu (eds), 2009 Taylor & Francis Group, London
Bieniawski Z. T.
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Celada B.
et al.
Specific correlations developed to predict the Rate of Advance for open TBMs, double-shields and single-shields, using the RME index are presented.
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Tunnel Engineering -
Mechanized Tunneling
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ITA Congress, Budapest, 2009
<p>In the paper problems related with the execution of 29m deep excavation of Nowy Swiat Station (S11) of 2nd metro line inWarsaw are discussed. In the central section,Warsaw 2nd metro line runs below the center of the city (office and housing buildings and ...
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Tunnel Engineering -
Ground - Structure Interaction
Reference:
Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground – Ng, Huang & Liu (eds), © 2009 Taylor & Francis Group, London
Spencer Μ.
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Stolfa Α.
et al.
<p>The goal of this paper is to give underwriters an understanding of what is a TBM and to build up an awareness of the wide variety of perils TBMs are exposed to during their utilisation for a tunnel project, to help underwriters carry out a risk analysis ...
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Tunnel Engineering -
Mechanized Tunneling
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IMIA Conference Istanbul, 2009
<p>Modelling tunnel boring machine (TBM) performance is an important aspect in tunnel operations. The use of artificial intelligence techniques such as artificial neural networks has been recently introduced to this subject and the results from such applications ...
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Tunnel Engineering -
Mechanized Tunneling
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Underground Spaces I, WIT Transactions on the Built Environment, Vol 102
Burgers R.
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Walraven J.
et al.
The paper addresses precast tunnel segments for the new Line 9 of Barcelona Metro. After the experimental determination of the material properties, non-linear analyses allowed to study the structural behavior of the tunnel segments under TBM thrust jack forces ...
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Tunnel Engineering -
Mechanized Tunneling
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Underground Space – the 4th Dimension of Metropolises – Barták, Hrdina, Romancov & Zlámal (eds) © 2007 Taylor & Francis Group, London
<p>This General Report reviews a total of twenty five papers relating to bored tunnel construction, its influence on ground deformations and tunnel interaction with other geo-structures in the 5th International Symposium on GeotechnicalAspects of Underground ...
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Tunnel Engineering -
Mechanized Tunneling
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2006 Taylor & Francis Group plc, London, UK