Abstract
Tunnelling is certainly one of the most fascinating but difficult civil engineering disciplines. This chapter illustrates some techniques for tunnel design starting from the rock mass classifications. For bored tunnels the New Austrian Tunnelling Method (NATM) and the ADECO-RS method are presented; while the cut and cover method is briefly analysed for artificial tunnels. It also describes some simple criteria for choosing the tunnel cross section types and the number of tubes in function of the railway line types (single or double-track lines) and length.
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“The volume of ground ahead of the excavation face, cylindrically shaped, and transversally and longitudinally dimensioned according to 1–1.5 times the diameter of the tunnel” [8].
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The volume of ground extruding longitudinally across the theoretical wall forming the tunnel face.
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The conventional excavation systems used to require nearly always advance through partial cross sections. The cavity was divided into a number of portions excavated and lined at different times, in a given sequence. The most widespread excavation methods were the “Belgian method”, the “Italian method”, the “Austrian-English method” and the “German method” which differed in cross-section subdivision and excavation sequence from one another.
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Guerrieri, M. (2023). Railway Tunnels. In: Fundamentals of Railway Design. Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24030-0_10
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