The Practice of Forward Prospecting of Adverse Geology Applied to Hard Rock TBM Tunnel Construction: The Case of the Songhua River Water Conveyance Project in the Middle of Jilin Province

An increasing number of tunnels are being constructed with tunnel-boring machines (TBMs) due to the increased efficiency and shorter completion time resulting from their use. However, when a TBM encounters adverse geological conditions in the course of tunnel construction (e.g., karst caves, faults,...

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Main Authors: Shucai Li, Lichao Nie, Bin Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-02-01
Series:Engineering
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095809917308147