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World's largest Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) main bearing in Changsha, central China's Hunan Province.
Diameter is 8.61 meter. It has power to drive a TBM of diameter 18 meter.
It has high...
Italian company Webuild unveiled the second Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) it will use to bore tunnels for a high capacity railway line in Sicily.
The TBM has diameter of 9.36 meters and weighs around 900 tons. It has been manufactured by a Chinese...
Automated geological model updates during TBM operation - An approach based on probabilistic machine learning concepts
Wellmann, Florian; Amann, Florian; Chudalla, Nils; de la Varga, Miguel
Geomechanics and Tunnelling 15...
The tunnel boring machine, manufactured in Germany, and named "Panama" which will be used to excavate the tunnel of Line 3 of the Panama Metro, arrived Wednesday, September 20 at the port of Manzanillo in...
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Dnews write Hyundai E&C soon start to bore 5.3 kilometer tunnel under Panama tunnel for Panama Metro Line 3. Hynudai ordered a Tunnel Boring Machine 14 meters in diameter from Herrenknecht of...
On August 3rd, the open-type TBM for Xichang to Shangri-La Expressway built by CRCHI was completed in Changsha, Hunan Province. With a length of about 170 meters and an excavation diameter of 8.53 meters, the TBM is the first...
"Flame VII", the Domestic First Compound TBM for Super Steep Urban Rail Transit Project Was Launched Successfully
On July 20th, the compound TBM "Flame VII" ,remanufactured by CRCHI, started to...
CRCHI World's Largest Shaft Boring Machine Launches for the Underground Smart Parking Garage with World's Largest Diameter Vertical Tunnelling
On June 16th, with the 230-ton main machine descending down to the bottom of the...
On 22nd of November 2013, TERRATEC delivered the last two of eight (8) TBMs for Delhi Metro Phase III. The TBMs were officially unveiled at a ceremony that included representatives from the client, a joint venture between Hindustan Construction...
Yolanda Alberto-Hernandez Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, 9211 116th Street, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 1H9, Canada
Chao Kang Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, 9211 116th...
With a total length of 7.4 km, the tunnel project is designed to have a two-way six-lane expressway on the middle level, smoke vent on the upper level and evacuation and rescue routes on the lower level, according to the Beijing Capital Highway...
In June 2023, a resilient 8.0 m diameter Robbins Single Shield TBM completed its second tunnel at Turkey’s Bahçe-Nurdaği Railway. The machine completed 9.6 km of tunneling, adding on to the 9.2 km it completed in its initial railway...
On August 15th, at construction site of the Pingjiang pumping storage power station in Pingjiang, Hunan, world's first variable diameter oblique well excavation "Tianyue" independently developed by China was successfully launched....
A compact summary of the recent innovations in tunnel boring machines.
https://www.construction-europe.com/news/6-ways-tunnel-boring-machines-are-evolving/8026001.article
"Yong'an" is a large diameter dual-mode Tunnel Boring Machine. Excavation diameter is 14.29 meters.
It was produced for boring 3963.5 meter shield section of the Guifengshan Tunnel.
TBM has has pre -geological forecast system,...
The Río Subterráneo a Lomas tunnel project in Argentina is witnessing impressive progress with the advancement of two TERRATEC Ø4.66m EPB machines.
TERRATEC is pleased to share the successful progress of the two dia. 4.66m Earth Pressure...
King Lifting has used a Liebherr LTM 1650-8.1 with its 650t capacity and 155.0t of counterweight to lift the tunnel boring machine (TBM) from a National Grid London power tunnel shaft at its Wimbledon site. Its highest component was...