A case history of Tunnel Boring Machine jamming in an inter-layer shear zone at the Yellow River Diversion Project in China

Engineering Geology

Volumn 71, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 199-211

  Shang, Yanjun ^a   Xue, Jihong ^b   Wang, Sijing ^a   Yang, Zhifa ^a   Yang, Jie ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b DeputySiteAgentCMC ConnectingWorks ^*  (China)

^c XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Fold; Inter layer shear zone; Marl; TBM

Indexed keywords

BORING MACHINES (MACHINE TOOLS); JAMMING; RIVERS; ROCKS; TENSILE STRESS; WATER SUPPLY TUNNELS;

GROUND STRESS;

LITHOLOGY;

FAILURE ANALYSIS; GROUND CONDITIONS; SHEAR ZONE; TBM; TUNNELING;

YELLOW RIVER;

EID: 1642505744     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-7952(03)00134-0     Document Type: Article

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