Interesting case story from Danfoss Electric heating for an immersed tunnel in Norway. The Bjørvika Tunnel is a motorway immersed on European Route E18 in the city center of Oslo. The tunnel links Festning tunnel in...

Multiphysics modelling of backfill grouting in sandy soils during TBM tunnelling Jie Yang, Zhen-Yu Yin, Ying-Jing Liu & Farid Laouafa Acta Geotechnica (2022) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11440-022-01528-2

  Master Drilling is known for its raise boring expertise but in recent years they have been busy transferring tunnel boring machine technology to mining fields. Their latest release regarding their performance as the company in 2021 has...

China robot inspection technology Camera-empowered robot to serve utility tunnel inspection in Tianjin http://www.ecns.cn/video/2022-03-17/detail-ihawpiuq2990307.shtml

China Tunnel Technology: Numerical solution for circular tunnel excavated in strain-softening rock masses considering damaged zone Jinwang Li, Caihua Shen, Xiufeng He, Xiangtian Zheng & Jiaojiao...

Prediction of TBM Disc Cutter Wear and Penetration Rate in Tunneling Through Hard and Abrasive Rock Using Multi-layer Shallow Neural Network and Response Surface Methods Anil Kumar Agrawal (a), V. M. S. R. Murthy (a), Somnath Chattopadhyaya (a)...

  Good read. The effect of altering the slurry circulation system on TBM tunnelling in weathered Kowloon granite J.N.Shirlaw (a) T.O.Henderson (a) I.S.Haryono (a) F.Dudouit (b) D.Salisbury (c) a    WSP-Golder, Hong Kong...

The British Geotechnical Association invites John Carter, emeritus professor at the University of Newcastle in Australia, to present the 61st Rankine Lecture in March...

  Prediction of TBM Disc Cutter Wear and Penetration Rate in Tunneling Through Hard and Abrasive Rock Using Multi-layer Shallow Neural Network and Response Surface Methods  Anil Kumar Agrawal, V. M. S. R. Murthy, Somnath...

Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment volume 81, Article number: 102 (2022) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10064-022-02576-4   Affiliations 1. Geotechnical and Structural Engineering Research Center,...

   by Bangyou Jiang 1, Mingjun Ding 1, Wenshuai Li 2*, Shitan Gu 1 and Hongguang Ji 3 1 College of Energy and Mining Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, China 2 Shandong Provincial Key...

(Open access) One-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Network for Pipe Jacking EPB TBM Cutter Wear Prediction by Kursat Kilic1,*, Hisatoshi Toriya 1, Yoshino Kosugi 1  Tsuyoshi Adachi 1 and Youhei Kawamura 2   1...

A Predictive Model for Estimating the TBM Penetration Rate Based on Hybrid ICA-ANN and DEA-AHP Algorithms Mosleh Eftekhari (a) & Nasrollah Eftekhari (b) (a) Department of Mining Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tarbiat Modares...

  China academic periodic Modern Tunnelling Technology have many science article on tunnel technology. Please English abstracts for last issue. http://www.xdsdjs.com/EN/volumn/current.shtml

General Construction Technology Scheme of Tianshan Shengli Tunnel on Urumqi-Yuli Expressway Abstract： With a total length of about 22 km, Tianshan Shengli Tunnel on Urumqi-Yuli Expressway is currently the longest expressway tunnel under...

Real-time hard-rock tunnel prediction model for rock mass classification using CatBoost integrated with Sequential Model-Based Optimization Yin Bo a,b  Quansheng Liu a,b Xing Huang c, Yucong Pan a,b a Key Laboratory of Geotechnical and...

A free-to-read and an engaging article. Enjoy your weekend. An Early-Warning System to Validate the Soil Profile during TBM Tunnelling https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/12/3/113

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzOQ_Stpdac Patrick Lane-Nott, director of engineering at hyperTunnel, explains how: https://www.pbctoday.co.uk/news/featured/underground-construction/106768/

Start early, have as much detail as possible and get the project team on board https://www.globalconstructionreview.com/three-tips-for-4d-bim-success/

Master thesis at Universidad Nacional de Colombia Aplicación de métodos de análisis retrospectivos (Back Analysis) para estimar el estado de esfuerzo de un túnel del oriente Antioqueño (Application of...