The "TISB" and the "TMG" Concepts. Application on a Proposal for the Railway Tunnel through the Gibraltar Strait
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Silvino Pompeu-Santos
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | 17th IABSE Congress: Creating and Renewing Urban Structures – Tall Buildings, Bridges and Infrastructure, Chicago, USA, 17-19 September 2008 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Congress Chicago 2008 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 282-283 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| Year: | 2008 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/222137908796292623 | ||||
| Abstract: |
The paper presents two innovative and cost-effective concepts for the construction of tunnels using TBMs (“tunnel boring machines”): the “TISB” concept to be used when the referred tunnels are executed in soft soils (e.g., alluviums), in seismic areas, and the “TMG” concept, which allows for the use of a single tunnel that provides the capabilities usually obtained with three parallel tunnels. The paper also presents an alternative proposal for the railway tunnel through the Gibraltar Strait, in which these concepts are applied. |
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| Keywords: |
earthquakes railroad soft soils tunnel Multi-gallery Gibraltar Strait
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