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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 to flow through the new pressure tunnel in a short...
1 Stage reached in accomplishing the Kaiser Wilhelm Tunnel
The 2-track Kaiser Wilhelm Tunnel, which opened back in 1879, is located on the Coblenz-Perl Moselle rail route between Ediger-Eller and...
1 Project Overview
1.1 Constructing in an urban Built-up Area
The City Ring project perimeter consists of the Lehnen Viaduct running along the Reuss in the north, the roughly 600 m long Reussport...
1 Background and Aims of the Working Group
The Working Group on “Tunnel Redevelopment” was prompted by the findings obtained from carrying out the first 2 projects concerned with enlarging the...
1 Introduction
Tunnel lining with segmental rings behind TBMs are reinforced concrete elements and must be calculated and designed according to the standards of reinforced concrete constructions....
At the end of December 2011, as foreseen 670 m of the 15.4 km long Ceneri Base Tunnel had been excavated by drill+blast for the north drive started in June 2009 at Vigana (Camorino). At the beginning...
As from late 2011 a roughly 2 km long tunnel is being driven to explore the largest Alpine fault zone, the Periadriatic Seam, as part of the 64 km long Brenner Base Tunnel project. It will take some 2...
The 4,019 m long Saverne Tunnel will be provided with 2 single-track bores, which will be linked every 500 m by cross-passages. This is where the Vosges range is at its narrowest. The 2 tunnel bores...
The Wehrhahn Line, a 300 million euro Metro project, is intended to relieve traffic in downtown Düsseldorf once it opens in 2015, for it will replace several tram routes operating on the surface. For...
