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Abstract: Full-face shielded tunnel boring machines (TBM) including earth pressure balance (EPB) shields have been used almost exclusively for soft ground tunneling because of the many advantages the offer in comparison to the conventional methods. The total number of EPB-TBMs that were utilized for tunneling between 2005 and 2010 is approximately 350 units worldwide as reported by [1]. These machines...