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Publications tagged with [Gotthard Base Tunnel]
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<p>At the time when it is completed, the Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland, with a total length of 57 km, will be the longest railway tunnel in the world. The complete tunnel system consists of 153.3 km of access tunnels, shafts, railway tunnels, connecting ...
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Mechanized Tunneling
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2º Congresso Brasileiro de Túneis e Estruturas Subterrâneas, Seminário Internacional “South American Tunnelling” - 2008
<p>The Bodio section is the southernmost and, being 16 km in length, the longest of the five sections of the Gotthard Base Tunnel (57 km: the world’s longest tunnel). Most of the parallel twin tunnels have been mined using two open hard rock TBMs. During ...
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<p>During the excavation of the southern section of the Gotthard Base Tunnel, the rock mass response to tunneling activities induced by two open, gripper TBMs described unusual magnitudes of displacements in the near-field domains of the heading without evidence ...
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Difficult Ground
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