Modern Tunneling Science And T [Hardcover]

This book discusses the science and technology of tunneling for the 21^stCentury. It includes topics related to planning, geological and environmental investigations, as well as the maintenance and the longevity of tunnels.Part I: Keynote Lectures 1. Safety Aspects of the L?tschberg Railway Tunnel & Mont-Blanc Road Tunnel 2. On the fundamental mechanism of tunneling 3. Flexible Response to Difficult Ground and Controlled Tunnelling Technology 4. Design Method of Shield Tunnel -Present Status and Subjects 5. The Rehabilitation of Tunnel Structures 6. Underground Space Networks in the 21st Century: New Infrastructure with Modal Shift Technology and Geotechnology Part II: Mechanism of tunneling 7. Optimal shape of underground structure 8. An approximate solution for the stresses on a rigid tunnel 9. Surface displacements due to pressure modifications induced by tunnels 10. Short and long-term load conditions for tunnels in low permeability ground in the framework of the convergence-confinement method 11. 3-D FEM Analysis for Layered Rock Considering Anisotropy of Shear Strength 12. A consideration on apparent cohesion of unsaturated sandy soil 13. Identification of the soil parameters in the analysis of a shallow tunnel 14. A simple technique to improve the prediction of surface displacement profiles due to shallow tunnel construction 15. Numerical modeling of a nonlinear deformational behavior of a tunnel with shallow depth 16. Prediction of ground settlements due to tunneling in clayey soils using advanced constitutive soil models: a numerical study 17. Analysis of Three-dimensional Effect of Tunnel Face Stability on Sandy Ground with a Clay Layer by the Three-dimensional Rigid Plastic Finite Element Method 18. Hydraulic conductivity change around tunnel due to excavation 19. Displacement measurement in a two-dimensional tunneling experiment. 20. Centrifugal model test on the clay arching 21. Arching effects on the deformation of sandy ground indulÃF