Design, Construction and Monitoring of Hard Rock Tunnels at Great Depth
Tunnel stability is one of the main engineering challenges in deep underground construction. This thesis proposes, field-tests and quantitatively assesses the performance of an innovative approach to the design and construction of hard rock tunnels at great depth. The novel methodology was shown to...
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Curtin University
2018
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| author | Drover, Christopher William |
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| description | Tunnel stability is one of the main engineering challenges in deep underground construction. This thesis proposes, field-tests and quantitatively assesses the performance of an innovative approach to the design and construction of hard rock tunnels at great depth. The novel methodology was shown to reduce the potential for violent stress-driven failure of deep tunnels, when compared to conventionally designed and constructed excavations in the same rock mass conditions. |
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| institution | Curtin University Malaysia |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-753852024-05-08T01:08:23Z Design, Construction and Monitoring of Hard Rock Tunnels at Great Depth Drover, Christopher William Tunnel stability is one of the main engineering challenges in deep underground construction. This thesis proposes, field-tests and quantitatively assesses the performance of an innovative approach to the design and construction of hard rock tunnels at great depth. The novel methodology was shown to reduce the potential for violent stress-driven failure of deep tunnels, when compared to conventionally designed and constructed excavations in the same rock mass conditions. 2018 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/75385 Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Drover, Christopher William Design, Construction and Monitoring of Hard Rock Tunnels at Great Depth |
| title | Design, Construction and Monitoring of Hard Rock Tunnels at Great Depth |
| title_full | Design, Construction and Monitoring of Hard Rock Tunnels at Great Depth |
| title_fullStr | Design, Construction and Monitoring of Hard Rock Tunnels at Great Depth |
| title_full_unstemmed | Design, Construction and Monitoring of Hard Rock Tunnels at Great Depth |
| title_short | Design, Construction and Monitoring of Hard Rock Tunnels at Great Depth |
| title_sort | design, construction and monitoring of hard rock tunnels at great depth |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/75385 |