Vodafone has commissioned a new type of conical multi-band mobile antenna for more stable 5G coverage in tunnels. Five of these antennas are being used in the 1,400-meter-long Arlinger Tunnel near Pforzheim, ensuring good mobile reception on the...

Dual-attention deep learning model for real-time advance rate prediction in TBM operations Ankang Ji Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Building and Real Estate, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 999077, China The Hong Kong...

Numerical investigation on the effect of cutterhead shapes on tunnel face stability Bassam Mohammed Al-Washali a d, Kai Yao a b, Umashankaran Satchithananthan a, Zhanyong Yao a, Abdullah M. Tawfek a e, Yutao Pan c, Michael Beer f g...

Skanska USA has pioneered the use of low-power explosives to mine a tunnel under busy Grand Central 42nd Street Station in New York City. https://www.globalconstructionreview.com/skanska-pioneers-low-explosive-tunnelling-in-new-york-city/

Rheology, permeability and microstructure of seawater-based slurry for slurry shield tunneling: insights from laboratory tests Junqi Ru 1 Yingran Fang 2,3   Yidong Guo 2,3 Luqing Jiang 4* Hongzhi Liu 5  Xinggao Li 2,3 Weiqiang Qi...

Prediction of rock-breaking forces of tunnel boring machine (TBM) disc cutter based on machine learning methods Qi Geng a, Yufeng Huang a, Jianxun Chen b, Xuebin Wang a, Weiwei Liu b, Yanbin Luo b, Zeyu Zhang a, Min Ye a a Key Laboratory of...

Research on the rock cutting performance and feasibility verification of small-scale rotary cutting test for disc cutter Zilong Yang Key Laboratory of CNC Equipment Reliability, Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun,...

Open source article. Challenges and Opportunities of Data-Driven Advance Classification for Hard Rock TBM excavations Georg H. Erharter and Paul Unterlass have contributed equally to this work. Georg H. Erharter Norwegian Geotechnical...

Uncertainty design optimization of the main bearing in tunnel boring machine based on the Kriging model with partial least squares Xinqi Wang a, Lintao Wang a, Huashan Chi a, Bo Yuan a, Qingchao Sun a, Wei Sun a, Yunhao Cui b a School of...

Investigation of vibrations created during TBM excavation and rock cutting Date 2024-06-11 Author: Ateş, Uğur Contributor Advisor:  Çopur, Hanifi Publisher: Graduate School, Mining Department, İstanbul Teknik...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv6cV_8Gm0Y Vienna, 16.04.2025 – Less waste, more value creation. This is LEAN Construction’s recipe for success. In the construction industry this means shorter project durations, more efficient...

Tunnel face rock mass class rapid identification based on TBM cutterhead vibration monitoring and deep learning model Qisheng Tang Key Laboratory of Urban Security and Disaster Engineering of Ministry of Education, Beijing University of...

  About the interesting design feature of HS2 tunnel portals at the HS2 Project (High Speed 2) group...

Reinforcement of impaired shield tunnel structure by stainless steel corrugated plate Yimin Qin College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China Yizheng Chen Technology and Application, State Grid Smart Grid...

Alstom has signed an agreement with RESA Yapi Elektromekanik A.S. to supply the Rigid Overhead Catenary System (ROCS) for a section of Türkiye's new high-speed railway line between Halkali and Kapikule. The line will be part of the...

Herrenknecht AG is starting bauma 2025, which begins today, with a coveted award: the company is receiving the bauma Innovation Award 2025 in the “Machine Technology” category for the development of the Tunnel Enlargement System (TES)....

Khoo Chee-Min Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, 32610 Seri Iskandar, Perak, Malaysia The findings emphasize the necessity of maintaining adequate face support pressures to mitigate excessive...

TBM rock fragmentation classification using an adaptive spot denoising and contour-texture decomposition attention-based method Guoqiang Huang, Chengjin Qin, Haodi Wang, Chengliang Liu State Key Laboratory of Mechanical System and Vibration,...

Experimental study on the mechanism of rockburst in tunnel construction by drilling and blasting construction in high ground stress stratum Bin Wang School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Anhui University of Science and Technology,...

Numerical simulation method for double shield TBMs crossing weak zones Open access article. Free read. no money. Published: 21 February 2025 Zhiwen Wang State Key Laboratory of Geohazard Prevention and Geoenvironment Protection (Chengdu...