Multi-mode tunnel boring machines / Multi-Mode Tunnelvortriebsmaschinen
Author(s): |
Werner Burger
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Medium: | journal article |
Language(s): | English, German |
Published in: | Geomechanics and Tunnelling, 2014, n. 1, v. 7 |
Page(s): | 18-30 |
DOI: | 10.1002/geot.201310027 |
Abstract: |
Classic tunnelling shields can reach their technical, but also their economic limits, when they have to drive through highly varied geologies along the tunnel route. A tunnel route may pass through extended sections of stable rock faces which alternate with soft, water-bearing loose soils. Such tunnelling routes are among the most demanding challenges in tunnel construction and they have to be mastered more and more often, because important infrastructures nowadays are being built in such formations. Herrenknecht has developed so-called Multi-mode tunnel boring machines especially for ground conditions of this kind. These are hybrid tunnel boring machines which offer optimum safety and flexibility when choosing the support and excavation method. They allow for an optimum tunnelling strategy that is adaptable to the conditions along the tunnel alignment. And they also have a positive influence on the desired efficiency. Multi-mode machines have different concepts in terms of how rapidly or how easily they can be adapted. The following chapters describe the functionalities of the Multi-mode TBM and the corresponding reference projects. In addition, this paper deals with the innovative concept of the Herrenknecht Variable Density TBM, a first universal tunnel boring machine for mixed ground conditions. |
Keywords: |
operation modes variable density machine types
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