Issue 04/2012 - tunnel

Content

Inhalt | Contents

Nachrichten | News

Switzerland

Breakthrough in Limmern

Germany

Second Tunnel Section for the Düsseldorf Wehrhahn Line driven

France

Construction on the Vosges Tunnel started

Austria

Brenner Base Tunnel: Exploring the Periadriatic Seam

Switzerland

Ceneri Base Tunnel: North Drive in Vigana

Germany

New Kaiser Wilhelm Tunnel

Baumaschinen | Construction Equipment

Hydraulic Cylinders for TBM

Pressure Water Tunnel for pumped-storage Power Plant in Kärnten/A

With a deafening noise and enormous force the giant tunnel boring machine thrusts its cutterhead through the rock of the Austrian Alps. Water is due...

Segmental Ring Design – New Challenges with High Tunnel Diameters

The Article was held on the 38th Annual Meeting of the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association and the World Tunnel Congress 2012...

After being operational for almost 40 years there was no denying the effects that traffic and the weather had exerted on the A2 in Lucerne. This key...

The breakthrough of the mechanised drive for the New Kaiser Wilhelm Tunnel represented an important step towards applying the safety level required...