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Abstract: Many of sequential tunnels constructed in urban areas passes through areas where influence of excavation produces negligible consequences on near buildings or infrastructures. Under these circumstances major attention is given to the ground conditioning through a face stability analysis and too few is given to the settlements that the excavation might produce. The following paper is presented...
Abstract: The construction of a relatively shallow mining tunnel in Brasilia was done under challenging ground conditions. After the end of the construction phase, numerical simulations were performed to compare the real settlements occurred on the tunnel entrances with the predicted settlements of the numerical analysis. These analyses were three-dimensional. The adjustment of the on-site...
Abstract: In Brasília, Brazil's planned capital, built in the 1950's, a population of 500000 people was predicted, with almost no forethought of underground space use. As Brazil's population grew and the centralization of power in Brasília increased, the population forecast proved wrong, with more than 3 million people currently living in Brazil's capital. Therefore, there are many opportunities for...