<p>With widespread increasing applications of mechanized tunneling in almost all ground conditions, prediction of tunnel boring machine (TBM) performance is required for time planning, cost control and choice of excavation method in order to make tunneling ...

This paper is about concentrations of Zn, Cu, Cr, Cd, Pb and Fe in surface marine sediments of the southern coast of Sfax that were studied in order to understand current metal contamination at the outlet of a mixed industrial and domestic wastewater effluent ...