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Korea develop world's first "TBM (Tunnel Boring Machine) cutterhead design automation system

    Ji-Yu Doko
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    On 16 July Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announce world's first "TBM (Tunnel Boring Machine) cutterhead design automation system". Also core technology "TBM equipment operation and control system" localized. This was official announcement reported by sj-ccnews.

    Four organizations participated including Korea Institute of Construction Technology and EM Korea, in the R&D project of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

    “TBM cutterhead design automation system,” is world first. Normally it takes a month to design a cutterhead. But with Korean automated system it takes 3 days to design it by inputting various ground conditions through a three-dimensional program.

    http://www.sj-ccnews.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=22894

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