Prediction of Compressed Air Leakage from Tunnels

Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 189-195

  Snee, C P M ^a   Javadi, A A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSED AIR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FORECASTING; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEAKAGE (FLUID); NUMERICAL METHODS; SOILS; TUNNELING (EXCAVATION);

COMPRESSED AIR LEAKAGE; EMPIRICAL METHODS; NUMERICAL MODEL; STEADY STATE EQUILIBRIUM;

TUNNELS;

COMPRESSED AIR; TUNNELS TUNNELLING;

COMPRESSED AIR; LEAKAGE; TUNNELLING;

EID: 0030114789     PISSN: 08867798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0886-7798(96)00018-1     Document Type: Article

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