High-speed rail tunnels
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| # | Name | Country | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gotthard Base Tunnel | Switzerland | 57091 m |
| 2 | Channel Tunnel | France | 50450 m |
| 3 | Guadarrama Tunnel | Spain | 28418.6600 m |
| 4 | Hakkōda Tunnel | Japan | 26445 m |
| 5 | Iwate-ichinohe Tunnel | Japan | 25810 m |
| 6 | Iiyama Tunnel | Japan | 22225 m |
| 7 | Dai-shimizu Tunnel | Japan | 22221 m |
| 8 | Blix Tunnel | Norway | 19500 m |
| 9 | Shin-kanmon Tunnel | Japan | 18713 m |
| 10 | Vaglia Tunnel | Italy | 18713 m |
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The Albaufstieg: Tunnel construction for high speed rail line
The Stuttgart-Ulm railway project includes several major projects that will shift traffic from the roads to the rails. The existing, winding rail line south-east of Stuttgart over the Swabian Alb only allows ... [more]
Brenner Base Tunnel – Advancement in highly converging rock mass
At 1,371 m above sea level, the Brenner Pass is the most important connection between Central Europe and Italy, carrying more than a third of all transalpine traffic. The existing railway line from Innsbruck ... [more]
Steel Fibre Shotcrete in Tunnelling: State of the Art and Examples
There are many possibilities and reasons for the application of steel fibre concrete in tunnelling, which account for the manifold number of existing uses. The shotcreting construction method has been state ... [more]
Literature
- (1993): Consideration for determining cross-sectional area of high-speed railway tunnels. Presented at: AFTES - Journées techniques, Toulon , 1993, pp. 29-34.
- (2016): Displacement characteristics of high-speed railway tunnel construction in loess ground by using multi-step excavation method. In: Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, v. 51 (January 2016), pp. 41-55.
- (2016): Effect of increased linings on micro-pressure waves in a high-speed railway tunnel. In: Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, v. 52 (February 2016), pp. 62-70.
- (2013): The Effects of Side Branches on Compression Waves Propagating in High-Speed Railway Tunnels. In: Advances in Structural Engineering, v. 16, n. 8 (August 2013), pp. 1437-1446.
- (2018): Field measurements of aerodynamic pressures in high-speed railway tunnels. In: Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, v. 72 (February 2018), pp. 97-106.
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