1st Edition

Handbook on Tunnels and Underground Works Volume 1: Concept – Basic Principles of Design

414 Pages 143 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

414 Pages 143 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

414 Pages 143 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

The book provides a new, global, updated, thorough, clear and practical risk-based approach to tunnelling design and construction methods, and discusses detailed examples of solutions applied to relevant case histories. It is organized in three sequential and integrated volumes: Volume 1: Concept – Basic Principles of Design Volume 2: Construction – Methods, Equipment, Tools and... Read more

1. Introduction 2. Risk management in tunnelling 3. Input data: geology and hydrogeology 4. Input data: geotechnics 5. Environmental aspects 6. Occupational Health and Safety aspects 7. Preliminary risk assessment 8. Construction methods 9. Computational methods 10. Assessment of excavation-related hazards and design of mitigation measures 11. Monitoring during construction 12. Maintenance and refurbishment of existing tunnels 13. Project acceptance strategy

Biography

Emilio Bilotta, Salvatore Miliziano, Andrea Pigorni, Enrcio Maria Pizzarotti