Groundwater inflow prediction in urban tunneling with a tunnel boring machine (TBM)

Engineering Geology

Volumn 121, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 46-54

  Font Capó, Jordi ^a,b   Vázquez Suñé, Enric ^a   Carrera, Jesús ^a   Martí, David ^c   Carbonell, Ramon ^c   Pérez Estaun, Andrés ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Groundwater; Inflow; Modeling; TBM; Tunnel

Indexed keywords

BARCELONA; GEOPHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION; GROUND WATER INFLOW; GROUNDWATER HEADS; HAZARDOUS AREA; HIGH WATER; INFLOW; MODEL SCALE; NUMERICAL MODELS; QUASI-3D; ROCK MASSIF; SHALLOW SUBSURFACE; TBM; TUNNEL BORING MACHINES; TUNNEL FACE; TUNNEL INFLOW; URBAN AREAS;

AQUIFERS; BORING; BORING MACHINES (MACHINE TOOLS); GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TUNNELING (EXCAVATION);

EARTH BORING MACHINES;

AQUIFER; BOUNDARY CONDITION; DEWATERING; GROUNDWATER FLOW; INFLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; TBM; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TUNNELING; UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTION; URBAN AREA;

EID: 79959194084     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2011.04.012     Document Type: Article

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