Hi everyone!
There are some guidelines for the use of specialist products for mechanized tunnelling (TBM) such as ITA report on April 2016 and EFNARC on April 2005 but they are not completed. Do you have any Document/ Technical Report/ Specification and Guidelines a real mechanized tunnelling by TBM especially hard rock projects including technical characterization of TBM parameters, tunnel and invert segments, stabilization, test, and etc.?
Thanks in advance for sharing your experience!
Try the site of AFTES for publications http://www.aftes.asso.fr/ , however I think that you are making a mistake in thinking that there is one single volume that contains so diverse and in many cases project specific details.
Hi Dr. Tsifoutidis,
I know that there is a special technical specification for every tunnel, but I want as an example. Unfortunately, I don't find any special document for this topic (technical specification and report for mechanized tunnel "TMB") in any references such as AFTES.
Please search the AFTES site. There is information on mechanised tunnelling. It is very difficult to find out details about TBM specs, except some general information on thrust, ext diameter, shield type, mucking system etc. The details are the commercial secrets of every TBM manufacturer. There are publications and papers on TBM by Kovari, Babendererde and others.
Attached some of the reports of ITA on TBMs, as well as some others. You might find some other reports in the ITA webpage (https://www.ita-aites.org/)
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