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Abstract: The use of TBM is always more widespread also due to the ever increasing versatility of these machines, no longer limited to the sole condition of rock sound but capable of facing even complex situations. Despite the technological progress it is possible to run into particularly unfavorable geological situations, which determine the TBM’s trap. This paper reviews the experience of releasing...
Abstract: Fibre reinforcement is increasingly used in civil works to improve materials strength against brittle failure mode. In mechanized tunnelling, precast concrete lining design and reinforcement dimensioning is carried out according to various loading schemes covering to the entire service life of segments and rings. One of the most onerous load conditions is related to the longitudinal ram forces...
Abstract: This paper shows the results of the analysis of the data acquired during the excavation of the new “Fabriano” Tunnel along the railway line from Rome to Ancona in Italy. The comparison between the results of the analyses and the consolidation system used for the excavation, gives an indication about the relationship which links the method of excavation commonly used today in Italy for...
Abstract: The two tunnels along the "Bocco’s variant" (“Del Bocco” and “Mulino del Vaglio”) in the Apennine area of Emilia Romagna (Italy) are characterized by a series of aspects, as the presence of several landslides and the need to recover of structures built in the past. The low-overburden excavation condition for the “Bocco” tunnel needed the execution of additional investigations to landslide...