Historical earthquake damage to tunnels in Japan and case studies of railway tunnels in the 2004 Niigataken-Chuetsu earthquake

Quarterly Report of RTRI (Railway Technical Research Institute) (Japan)

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 136-141

  Yashiro, Kazuhide ^a   Kojima, Yoshiyuki ^a   Shimizu, Mitsuru ^b  

^a RAILWAY TECHNICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b EAST JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Case studies; Earthquake; Mountain tunnel

Indexed keywords

CASE STUDIES; DAMAGE PATTERNS; MOUNTAIN TUNNELS;

DAMAGE TOLERANCE; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES;

RAILROAD TUNNELS;

EID: 35548973479     PISSN: 00339008     EISSN: 18801765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2219/rtriqr.48.136     Document Type: Article

References (1)

1. Shimizu, M., Suzuki, T., Kato, S., Kojima, Y., Yashiro, K. and Asakura, T.: "Historical Damages of Tunnels in Japan and Case Studies of Damaged Railway Tunnels in the Mid Niigata Prefecture Earthquakes," ITA-AITES World Tunnel Congress 2007, Prague, Czech Rep., May 2007.