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Abstract: The city of Baku, Azerbaijan, has experienced a strong economic growth over the past decade. The actual metro network consists of two lines, the red line consisting of 13 stations, and the green line with 10 stations. Due to the high and increasing volume of passengers, the existing metro lines have reached its capacity limits, and major development plan to extend the metro network was launched...
Abstract: Phenomena such as convergence and anisotropic behaviour can be expected when tunnelling through schistose rocks under high overburden in the Alps. The 13 km-long safety tunnel of the existing Frejus Highway tunnel, at the French-Italian border, is currently under construction and the 6.5 km-long French Lot was successfully completed with a hard rock 9.4 Ø...
Abstract: The ambitious project of transformation of Brussels Tramway lines 3 and 4 to Metro lines leads to the realization of a 170m-long mined tunnel, to be excavated a few meters underneath the “Palais du Midi”, an historical building built in the 19th century and for which the stability must be insured during and after the excavations. The tunnel will connect the future Constitution Station,...
Abstract: The Bucharest metro system is actually made of four (4) operating metro lines (Line 1 to Line 4), one line under construction (Line 5), and another one in the design stage (Line 6). The Line 5 (Magistrala 5) is made of twenty-four (24) stations, running from Râul Doamnei station tostation, crossing the city centre in the East-South West direction. The stretch of the Line 5 of the metro system...