Expanding Underground - Knowledge and Passion to Make a Positive Impact on the World : : Proceedings of the ITA-AITES World Tunnel Congress 2023 (WTC 2023), 12-18 May 2023, Athens, Greece.

• Author: Anagnostou, Georgios.
• TeilnehmendeR: Benardos, Andreas.; Marinos, Vassilis P.
• Place / Publishing House: Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (4988 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Committees -- Knowledge &amp -- passion to expand underground for sustainability and resilience -- A look at embodied carbon in segmental tunnel lining -- Urban underground space use in a climate neutral city -- ATG Ceneri Base Tunnel: Driving method and production of concrete aggregates -- BIM-enabled carbon accounting and integrated design of underground infrastructures -- What might be our vision of the ecological transition in tunnels and underground spaces for the years to come? -- Low carbon lining for tunnelling precast segment - How Dramix® fibre reinforced concrete could facilitate this achievement -- ADVANTEX: Research of innovative tools to support the logistics of the use of excavation materials produced by the Lyon-Turin railway line for the best sustainability and circular economy of the process -- Final design considerations for the major rehabilitation of the Montreal Lafontaine Tunnel -- Carbon footprint emissions of different tunneling construction methods -- Preliminary design and socio-economic benefits of a road tunnel construction in the Tzoumerka mountainous area -- Managing tunnel infrastructure: A new guideline -- Underground solution for urban resilience: Stormwater management infrastructure -- Advancement of conventional cost benefit for selection of truly sustainable infrastructure alternatives -- Practical countermeasures for road tunnels against collapse of lining caused by earthquake -- Sustainable and resilient city: The case study of a hypogeum stadium in a desert area -- Autostrade per l'Italia (ASPI) TRS Tunnel Renewal Strategy: The cases of Castello 1 left, San Fermo right and Colle Marino left tunnels -- Resins filling injections of an extensive system of voids behind the final lining of Monte Baldo highway tunnel.

Shafts and spiral tunnels for large heat storages - an economic study on ideal geometries -- Waterproof sprayed concrete with improved sustainability performance -- Environmental profile of bentonite drilling fluids for civil engineering applications -- Experimental study on cyclic shear behavior of biopolymer-treated soil as a tunnel backfill material -- Search for potential compressed air energy storage sites in Switzerland -- Mixed use potential of existing road tunnels for conveying water for hydropower generation: A case study of motorway tunnels in Swat, Pakistan -- The new line 16 São Paulo Metro and Best use of zero-carbon technology -- On the mechanical behavior of underground pipeline with separated joints rehabilitated by cured in place pipe -- Low-carbon ground support design for an underground tunnel crossover with a narrow roof pillar in a road tunnel project in Sydney, Australia -- Traceability and environmental follow-up of excavated materials Learnings from implementation experiences with bigger projects -- Geological, geotechnical site investigation and ground characterization -- Televiewer defect aperture logging for detailed model development - A case study from the M8, Sydney, Australia -- Reliability analysis of discrete fracture network projections from borehole to shaft scale discontinuity data -- Which tests for a rapid geotechnical characterization of excavated materials for use as concrete aggregates? Application to the Lyon Turin base Tunnel -- Geotechnical analysis of adapted permeation and compaction grouting techniques for detailed design and construction of underground structures -- Mapping by pictures: A case study of simplified rock mass classification to improve consistency -- Equivalent material modelling of fractured rock mass resonance effects.

Rheological properties of artificial sandy soil conditioned with foam and polymer -- Laboratory experiments for hazardous ground prediction ahead of a TBM tunnel face based on resistivity and induced polarization -- Tunnel portal design optimisation in tectonically disturbed and weathered gneissic rock masses -- Geostatistical modelling of geotechnical properties in the context of a tunneling project: Application to the Grand Paris Express project (France) -- Observations on the condition of a hydraulic pressure tunnel through an ROV survey -- Acoustic emission of calcitic and dolomitic rock specimens during uniaxial compression tests -- Innovative assessment methodologies to introduce rock mass behaviour into tunnelling - The legacy of Professor Paul Marinos in the Athens Metro -- Modelling total convergences in tunneling: An essay on Venda Nova III data -- The management of excavation data in accordance with the WBS for the Mont Cenis tunnel -- Hydrogeology of the Brenner Base Tunnel in the Italian section: Observed inflows and forward monitoring procedures -- Contribution of twenty years of exploratory work in the complex carboniferous formation of the montcenis base tunnel -- Characteristic of ground deformation with unsupported tunnel excavation in a sedimentary soft rock -- Innovative and conventional geophysical investigations at the Hamza bey (Alcazar) monument in Thessaloniki, Greece -- 3D Geo-modelling using geophysical tools to aid injection grouting -- Acceleration of soft ground with tunnels near soft-hard strata interface: Longitudinal shaking -- Optimization of electrical resistivity survey utilizing harmony search algorithm to predict anomalous zone ahead of tunnel face -- Planning and designing of tunnels and underground structures -- Design aspects of deep water distribution shafts -- Short-term tunnel face stability in clays.

Preliminary comparison of the life cycle cost and safety of a single bore bidirectional tunnel including semitransverse ventilation, with a twin bore unidirectional tunnel of the same length longitudinally ventilated -- Tomography based method for investigation of steel fibre distribution in tunnel shotcrete -- 3D numerical modelling of a large shallow cavern in densely built-up area for Sydney metro -- Design and construction sequence of big crossover cavern in Himalayan Geology -- Parametric analysis of shotcrete lining capacity using an improved compressive membrane action model -- Pre-Cast linings for hydropower tunnels: Advantages and successes -- The Traditional method of madrid - a 2D SSI approach calibrated via 3D modelling -- Porto metro rubi line - the design of the conventional tunnels in residual soils -- Second tube of the Gotthard Road Tunnel: Tunnel design and challenges after 2 years of construction of the preparatory works -- The Glacier Garden in Lucerne gets a new main underground attraction -- Study of a large opening in a retaining wall by a TBM: Consequences on the ground and the structures, structural reinforcement solutions and impacts on neighboring constructions -- Significance of initial lining on dynamic performance of final lining for large size cavern -- Interaction between underground works and deep foundations. A risk assessment approach -- Design methodology for tunnel collars assessment under fire load -- Mechanical performance evaluation of operating shield tunnel segment under different ovality induced by underlying tunnel construction -- The fourth edition of the BTS/ICE specification for tunnelling -- Structural safety of tunnels in case of fire based on CFD simulations -- Effect of the rock mass disturbance due to the tunnel excavation on the tunnel loading, based on numerical simulation.

Tunnel design guideline in cases of tunnel face pre-support by fiberglass nails and/or forepoling umbrella -- Use of the tunnel face stability factor in unsupported and supported tunnel faces -- The importance of axisymmetric simulations for the estimation of tunnel support pressure for sequentially supported deep tunnels -- Planning of the Tel Aviv Metro Network -- TBM excavation under existing operation railway: A practical example applied to the Brenner railway -- Thermal performance of a metro station in Turin equipped with energy geostructures -- Numerical simulation of the rock cutting process using the discrete element method -- Ground movement impacts on heritage buildings from trinocular cavern excavation at Town Hall station on the Melbourne Metro Tunnel Project -- Influence of construction joints on the mechanical behavior of linings in mountain tunnels acted on by external forces -- Highway tunnel design under river with shallow overburden-Terzili tunnel example -- A design approach of large diameter surge shaft and passageway connection between headrace tunnels -- Holistic largescale planning and optimization of urban subway works -- Ensuring face support and control of surface deformations in soft ground urban tunnels: Verification through international case studies -- Using a vermiculite-based fire protection mortar to increase the fire resistance of reinforced concrete tunnels -- Settlement trough estimation over TBM EPB tunnel -- Effect of rock heterogeneity on the convergence-confinement curve during numerical analysis of underground excavation in discontinuous rock mass -- Curved diaphragm wall construction: A case study on the challenges faced -- The excavation of the Brenner Base Tunnel where the Eurasian and Adriatic tectonic plates collide -- Design of porous tunnel for ecosystem protection in High Speed Two railway in UK.

Structural analysis model of joints in steel segment shield tunnel for 3D FEM.