Decision-making on shield construction parameters depends on timely and accurate geological condition feedback. Real-time mastering of geological condition around the shield during tunnelling is ...

Understanding the relationship between plasticity of muddy soil and earth pressure can be crucial to maintaining tunnel stability and predicting ground behavior during earth pressure balance (EPB) ...

With the acceleration of urbanization, a series of ‘urban diseases”, such as traffic congestion, caused by population aggregation have emerged. A well-developed subway transportation network has, to ...

Chongtai Yangtze River Tunnel shield tunnelling site. Credit: China Railway Tunnel Group/Business Wire. China’s intelligent shield tunnelling technology has been successfully implemented in the ...

The world's first "ternary mixed gas" shield tunneling pressurized operation system has officially been put into use in the world's longest undersea high-speed rail tunnel across the waterway between ...

Infrastructures often suffer severe damage due to geotechnical hazards of both natural kinds such as floods or earthquakes and man-made ones like underground construction work and excavations. The ...