No document
Search & filter
Search for a publication
Search & filter
List of products by author: H. Admiraal
-
Cost-Effective Safety for Road Tunnels
Abstract: Safe design and operation of underground infrastructures at times require a disproportionate amount of resources without a reasonable return in terms of safety. Examples include overly sophisticated design, which results in high maintenance costs and excessive operational complexity, which cannot be adequately managed by the exploitation staff. Conversely, oversimplified design mostly leads to...
0,00 € -
Repairing an ageing national monument – the world’s first box shaped immersed tunnel
Abstract: The Maas Tunnel (Figure 1) connects the North bank and the South bank of the Maas River that divides the City of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, into two. Designed during the 1930’s after extensive studies by city engineers, construction work started in 1937 and the tunnel was opened five years later in 1942 during the occupation of Rotterdam. For the Netherlands it was the first immersed tunnel,...
0,00 € -
Sustainable urbanization through underground development – towards an urban underground future
Abstract: Our globe is experiencing unprecedented growth in urban populations. The corresponding sprawl of existing urban areas and the explosion of new cities and urbanizing regions is occurring at rapid speed. Often infrastructure development cannot keep up. The resource land is being used up at alarming rates. Efforts are going on in many cities and urbanizing regions to contain the sprawl and to...
0,00 €
