1 General
Approx. 1,400 tunnellers from 56 nations met in Helsinki, Finland from May 20 – 26, 2011 in Helsinki, Finland. The occasion: the 37th Annual Meeting of the ITA – International...
North/South Line Project
Amsterdam is engaged in building a new Metro line, the North/South Line (Noord/Zuidlijn). The core of Amsterdam, the historic downtown area, is to be linked directly with the...
1 Introduction
In the case of TBM drives the excavated material is subject to numerous processes of change while being extracted by the cutting wheel right up to being discharged at the portal, which...
The most important route between the Croatian seaports of Split and Makarska is the D8 National Road. This road was built very near to the shoreline of the Adriatic Sea in the 1960s. Today, the road...
Is there a link between underground transportation facilities and the events in April 2010 when relatively unexpected a volcano on Iceland erupted and grounded air traffic throughout Europe and in...
A specially devised dimpled sheeting was installed in the Gotthard Base Tunnel to collect seepage and crack water over large areas.
One of the most important prerequisites for the operational safety...
Concrix® is the first bi-component high-performance fibre for reinforcing concrete. Thanks to the performance range of the macrofibres the technical values are enhanced quite apart from comfort for...
STUVA Conference 2011
Correction regarding early Registration
In the last edition of STUVA News in tunnel 3/2011 (May issue) an error crept into the list of Conference fees. The reduced Conference...
EPB and Slurry TBMs, first developed in the 1960s and refined in the decades following, were designed around very different philosophies. Though both prototypes originated in Japan, EPBs were founded...
1 Island Pioneers
The “Anacaona” Double Shield TBM (4.5 m diameter) (Fig. 1) started its work where Columbus’ first great voyage of discovery ended in 1492. On the Caribbean island of...
