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Abstract: Earth Pressure Balance (EPB) TBMs are able to deal with the main issues in urban tunnelling that include surface settlement control, maintaining of the existing structures requirements and stability of the excavation face. Tunnels of several kilometres can also include quite different conditions along the tunnel alignment in terms of rock / soil characteristics, groundwater and overburden. In...
Abstract: The project and construction for the new high speed railway line (connecting Genoa to Milan) faced one of the most important environmental issues: safe excavation and managing of rocks, that may contain asbestos in relevant amounts. Asbestos is a group of fibrous minerals that mainly occurs in mafic and ultramafic rocks (ophiolitic sequences). This work focuses the criteria to better evaluate...