Vedeggio-Cassarate Tunnel: tunnelling in groundwater under pressure / Tunnel Vedeggio-Cassarate: Vortrieb in gespanntem Grundwasser
Author(s): |
Matthias Neuenschwander
Giovanni Como Alessandro Ferrari Gabriele Gubler |
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Medium: | journal article |
Language(s): | English, German |
Published in: | Geomechanics and Tunnelling, 2012, n. 2, v. 5 |
Page(s): | 149-162 |
DOI: | 10.1002/geot.201200012 |
Abstract: |
Many thousand people commute daily into Lugano in the south of Switzerland and the city has been suffering under this heavy traffic for decades. Therefore the Canton of Tessin and the local councils in the Lugano local transport area agreed twenty years ago a mobility plan including numerous construction measures. On of the most impressive structures is the Vedeggio-Cassarate Tunnel on the approach route to Lugano from the north. This has a length of 2,630 m and links the Vedeggio Valley to the west with the Cassarate Valley to the east. The three main sections of the tunnel are described as the rock section, the loose ground section and the cut-and-cover section. The tunnel was driven under a built-up area, with one school and several blocks of flats inside the area affected by the works. The essential construction challenges were tunnelling under the most important Swiss railway line under continued operation, the protection of listed historic buildings and tunnelling through loose ground below the groundwater table. |
Keywords: |
FE analyses support measures risk scenarios auxiliary construction measures loose ground section face stability failure body model settlement calculation high-pressure jet grouting monitoring
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