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<p>The 10.6 km long Sabzkuh water conveyance tunnel is currently under construction in the High Zagros structural zone, located in western <br />Iran, through conventional (in section T1) and mechanized (in section T2) methods. The section T1 of the ...
Reference: International Journal of Mining and Geo-Engineering - IJMGE 52-2 (2018) 149-160
Sulphatic claystones exhibit a heavily swelling behavior and are among the most problematic rocks for tunnelling. Their swelling is usually attributed to the transformation of anhydrite to gypsum. The paper questions this simplistic hypothesis through a qualitative ...
Reference: 59th Geomechanics Colloquy 2010 Session on “Tunnel construction in swelling ground”
Overstressing of the rock surrounding a tunnel can result in either brittle fracture of the intact rock or shear failure along pre-existing discontinuities such as joints or shear zones. These two types of failure can co-exist and the extent to which the failures ...
Reference: Rock Engineering in Difficult Ground Conditions – Soft Rocks and Karst – Vrkljan (ed) © 2010 Taylor & Francis Group, London
<p>Shanghai&rsquo;s subway construction has entered a new period of rapid development. A notable characteristic of subway network construction is that the construction environment is increasingly complex. Take Shanghai subway line 10 as an example, in the ...
Reference: Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground – Ng, Huang & Liu (eds), 2009 Taylor & Francis Group, London
<p>The 5 m diameter 23.3 km long Yacamb&uacute;-Quibor tunnel is designed to carry water through the Andes from the Yacamb&uacute; dam in the wet tropical Orinoco basin to the semi-arid but fertile Quibor basin in western Venezuela. The tunnel is excavated ...
Reference: Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, Vol. 42, No. 2, 389 - 418
<p>The tunnel squeezing phenomenonwas first described byTerzaghi (1946)who associated squeezing mainly with clay-rich rocks. Consistent with Terzaghi&rsquo;s original description, the focus of this paper is on tunnels in clays and clay-rich rocks such as clayshales. ...
Reference: Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground – Ng, Huang & Liu (eds), © 2009 Taylor & Francis Group, London
<p>This paper deals with full face excavation of large size tunnels in rock masses of very poor quality which exhibit squeezing behaviour. Time dependence is accounted for explicitly by using constitutive models which have been validated with reference to ...
Reference: The 12th International Conference of International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG), 1-6 October, 2008, Goa, India
<p>The occurrence of occasional sinkholes or very large settlements over EPB driven tunnels has been documented on a number of projects. Primary responsibility for avoiding sinkholes must lie with the tunnelling contractor, and the shield manufacturer. Almost ...
Reference: 2006 Taylor & Francis Group plc, London, UK
<p>A brief overview of jet grouting in Brazil is followed by &ldquo;why and when&rdquo; basics in relation to ground improvement for safe tunnel excavating. A number of case histories are reported - mostly NATM tunnels involving what were seen as difficult, ...
Reference: Proceedings of International Seminar on Underground Works, Lisbon, Portugal: 1–13
This paper describes the design methodology adopted for stabilization measures of a twin bored highway tunnel in Northern Greece, where severe cracking and translational displacements of the temporary support shell were observed. Cracks occurred due to an ...
Reference: Proceedings of the 30th ITA-AITES World Tunnel Congress, May 2004