Investigations for the application of EPB shields in difficult grounds / Untersuchungen für den Einsatz von Erddruckschilden in schwierigem Baugrund
Author(s): |
Mario Galli
Markus Thewes |
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Medium: | journal article |
Language(s): | English, German |
Published in: | Geomechanics and Tunnelling, 2014, n. 1, v. 7 |
Page(s): | 31-44 |
DOI: | 10.1002/geot.201310030 |
Abstract: |
As a result of growing urbanisation, subsurface space is developed and has to be expanded. New and bigger tunnels are required to meet the infrastructural needs. The ground is the decisive factor regarding the type of tunnelling method and its efficiency. The bigger such projects the greater the chance to encounter inhomogeneous in situ ground conditions. This makes an adequate and economic choice of the process technology more difficult, especially in mechanised shield tunnelling. A clear differentiation based on the grain-size distribution between the field of application of an EPB shield and a hydro shield nowadays is hardly possible. An application of a hydro shield machine in fine soils is just as feasible as tunnelling with EPB shields in coarse soils. In this article, the authors explain selected geological conditions, which represent challenging situations for the application of EPB shields. Therefore, it is particularly focused on overconsolidated cohesive soils, highly permeable non-cohesive soils and sedimentary rock as well as areas of mixed face conditions (rock and soil). Moreover, test methods and tools for the planning and the construction phase are presented. |
Keywords: |
conditioning clogging application areas laboratory testing fields of application lab tests
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