Numerical Simulation in Tunnelling /

The planned construction of traffic routes through the European Alps represents a challenge for science and technology. During the past decades, Austria has gained a leading position in the field of tunnelling. This has been verified by many successful projects all over the world, which have been re...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beer, G. (Gernot)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna, 2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Tunnelling
  • the need for technological development and innovation
  • Improved site investigation
  • Advanced pre-processing methods
  • Thermochemomechanical material model for shotcrete
  • Material model for soil and applications
  • Damage mechanics of jointed rock in tunnelling
  • Parameter identification and its application in tunnelling
  • Soft-computing-based parameter identification as the basis for prognoses of the structural behaviour of tunnels
  • Quantification of stress states in shotcrete shells
  • Compressed air tunnelling
  • determination of air requirement
  • A coupled FE-model for tunnelling by means of compressed air
  • A multilaminate model for finite element analysis of tunnel excavation
  • Advanced post-processing methods
  • Application of numerical simulation at the tunnel site
  • Summary and outlook.