Yesterday I came across this European Patent application by Japan's Daiho Corporation. It has been filed in 1995. Interesting. (19) J (12) (88) Date of publication A3: 18.06.1997 Bulletin 1997/25 (43) Date of publication A2:...

Reuse of Discharged Soil from Slurry Shield Tunnel Construction as Synchronous Grouting Material Cong Zhang, Ph.D. School of Civil Engineering, Central South Univ. of Forestry and Technology, Changsha, Hunan 410004, China. Kui...

Stability of Tunnel Face Reinforced by Bolts under Seepage Flow Conditions School of Civil Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, 410075, China Jing Liu & Lili Liu https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12205-021-1116-4

Spanish fever for single-bore large diameter tunnels reaches US shores. https://tunnelingonline.com/new-direction-for-subway-tunneling/

Although it is an old patent from 1972, I think it is still interesting, At least for brainstorming, especially in these days we are stuck with 1950s technology in mechanized tunneling. Method And Apparatus For Tunneling By Melting The abtract...

Inexpensive Anti-Icing Concrete Material for Application to Tunnel and Slope Engineering Infrastructures in Cold Regions. Zihan Zhou  (1,2), Yanjun Shen (1,3), Jianshuai Hao  (1), Zhipeng Bai  (1) , Yuting Liu ( 4) , Haibo...

Development and application of a new ballast water system for immersed tunnel installation: A case study of the Yuliangzhou tunnel in Xiangyang, China Xingtao Zhou (a,c,d)  Xiaowei Sun (b) Yu-yong Jiao (a) Bocun Zeng (b)  Fei Tan...

IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science Prediction of TBM Operational Parameters Using an Integrated Data Mining Framework X Wang1,2, M Zhu3 and Y Shen3 Author affiliations 1 Department of Civil and Environmental...

Most of the authors are Indian. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674775521001281

Microseismicity Characteristics Before and After a Rockburst and Mechanisms of Intermittent Rockbursts in a Water Diversion Tunnel School of Resources and Civil Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110819, Liaoning, China Yucheng...

Hello friends. This paper is not very recent. It is from 2015. But it is valuable information. It gives results of evaluating the member force of the segment lining of the virtual submarine tunnel and calculation of the optimal segment thickness by...

Interesting - In situ behaviour of an instrumented ring subjected to incipient TBM steering around a curve Saleta Gil Lorenzo     Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2, United...

The abstract in English: Pre-grouting for CHI of EPB shield TBM in difficult grounds: a case study of Daegok-Sosa railway tunnel Sung-Wook Kang 1 Jaehoon Chang 2 Jae-Won Lee 2 Dae-Young Kim 3 Young-Jin Shin 4* 1 Project Manager,...

  Optimización en los parámetros de perforación y voladura en el avance del túnel de la mina Cabo de Hornos Universidad del Azuay, Ingeniero de Minas. https://dspace.uazuay.edu.ec/handle/datos/7439

From Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association Case study on design and construction for cross-connection tunnel using large steel pipe thrust method in soil twin shield tunnels underneath airport Chang-Yoon Ahn 1* Duhee...

Study on the stability of shield tunnel face in clay and clay-gravel stratum through large-scale physical model tests with transparent soil Shaokun Ma, Zhibo Duan, Zhen Huang, Ying Liu  College of Civil Engineering and Architecture,...

Pixel-level tunnel crack segmentation using a weakly supervised annotation approach Hanxiang Wang (a), Yanfen Li (a) , L. Minh Dang (b), Sujin Lee (a),  Hyeonjoon Moon (a) a Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sejong...

  It is a research paper from Switzerland's famous university ETH Zürich. Some data for the research has been reportedly supplied by Herrenknecht. It is included in the November 2021 issue of Elsevier's Automation in...

Knowledge Management System of Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics,CAS Archive for science articles...

  Tunnel Erosion Tongxin Zhu University of Minnesota Duluth USA Xiangzhou Xu Dalian University of Technology Dalian China This chapter presents a study on tunnel erosion in the WJG watershed over the past 30 years, which...