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 (3529 pages)

Table of Contents

cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- 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 overburdenTerzili 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.