UK tunnelling contractor Barhale comes up with an innovative tunnel boring machine design to tackle the complications of tunnelling in tight spaces. Barhale calls it "collapsible shield". Read...

Advanced prediction of tunnel boring machine performance based on big data JinhuiLi a, Pengxi Li a, Dong Guo a, Xu Li b, ZuyuChen c a Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen,...

Authors Soo-Kwon Ham       Master, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Konkuk University Hoon Jung               Master, Dept. of...

Moroccan company ETAFAT monitors 24/7 vibrations of tunnel construction in Morocco's biggest city Ad Dar Al Bayda. 1890 meter tunnel is dug under near the Old Medina section of the city with many centuries old buildings. It is important that...

  A Combined Support System Associated with the Segmental Lining in a Jointed Rock Mass: The Case of the Inclined Shaft Tunnel at the Bulianta Coal Mine Xiongyu Hu /  Key Laboratory of Transportation Tunnel Engineering, Ministry of...

  The prediction of cutter wear from temperature measurements on TBM discs and cutting face Ulku Kalayci Sahinoglu & Umit Ozer Arabian Journal of Geosciences volume...

  Doha Metro's Gold Line has been built by Yapi Merkezi (Turkey), STFA Group (Turkey), Larsen & Toubro (India), Aktor (Greece) and Al Jaber Engineering (Qatar). It opened for passengers on 21 November 2019. It is comprised of twin...

  Tunnel Business Magazine (TBM) has an article over large bore Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) tunneling: I think it's a treat: https://tunnelingonline.com/advancements-in-large-diameter-tbm-tunneling/

The Boring Company finally releases information about Prufrock. It is just a tweet with a photo of people in front of a TBM and a very short text 'Prufrock is alive'. Nevertheless, it is the first picture of the Prufrock. Prufrock is...

Prediction Model for Disc Cutter Wear of Tunnel Boring Machines in Sandy Cobble Strata Yitao Li, Honggui Di, Qiyu Yao, Longlong Fu & Shunhua Zhou Key Laboratory of Road and Traffic Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Tongji...

The optimization of a dust suppression and clean production scheme in a TBM-constructed tunnel based on an orthogonal experiment Xiaofei Liu, Wen Nie, Wenjie Zhou, Changqi Liu. Qiang Liu. Cunhou Wei State Key Laboratory of Mining Disaster...

First 100 meters of the RijnlandRoute tunnel in The Netherlands will be illuminated with the natural sunshine. That is thanks to the optical fiber technology to be used in the tunnel. The optical fiber cables will capture the sunlight outside the...

Prediction of ground ahead of tunnel boring machine (TBM) using electrical resistivity = 전기비저항을 이용한 TBM 전방지반예측   Hong, Chang-Ho  College of Engineering(공과대학)Dept. of Civil and Environmental...

Making Tunnels Fast and Safe. Hyundai E&C Patented TBM Technology   (original Hyundai explanation:)  https://news.hyundaimotorgroup.com/Article/Hyundai-EnC-Patented-TBM-Technology?mainYn=Y&num=3) A tunnel boring...

  Bahçe-Nurdağ (Fevzipaşa) Varyantı Tünel Geçişi Yapısal Tasarımı İncelemesi Structural Design Review of the Bahçe-Nurdağ(Fevzipaşa) Variant Tunnel Crossing   Ebru Erbeyoğlu, Sıddıka Nilay Keskin,...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=corr-Ak-0Mc Hoban Group is a big construction and technology companies in Korea. Hoban Group signed on 29 January 2020 an agreement with Germany's Herrenknecht. Hoban and Herrenknecht together will develop a...

  High Water Ingress during TBM Tunneling under Andheri Kurla Road, Marol Naka, Mumbai, India.   European Journal of Engineering Research and Science, 2019   Dr Vinay Kumar Pandey You can download the paper...

Minneapolis' $2 billion Southwest light-rail construction work uses Japanese equipment pressing (as opposed to pounding or vibrating) vertical steel sheet piles into the ground to create an interlocking wall that will serve as the framework for...

Experiment of 3D Seismic Reflection Technique for Forward Probing on TBM Tunnel Face Authors Ao Song      (China University of Geosciences, Beijing, 100083, China) Bin Song     (China University of...

CREG's super compact Tunnel Boring Machine successfully bored the first 270m of tunnel on the drainage gallery structures of the Wendeng pumped storage power station in China’s Shandong Province. China Railway Engineering Equipment...